Comments on: Designing a Design School http://planning-research.com/designing-a-design-school/ essays on urban studies Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:39:58 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Richard Willson http://planning-research.com/designing-a-design-school/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Richard Willson Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:11:00 +0000 http://planning-research.martacrane.com/?p=69#comment-81 A university restructuring plan has been proposed at Cal Poly Pomona that would deconstruct a design-oriented school. We are fighting this proposal, which would send urban planning, landscape architecture and the Lyle Center to a college of science, architecture to engineering, and graphic design to business. I hope that we will prevail, but the crisis is forcing an examination of the nature of collaborations of planning programs with related design disciplines.<br/><br/>Our 2008 Dale Prize event will be a dialogue between Paul Farmer, Executive Director of APA and Marvin Melacha, President Elect of AIA on the nature of these collaborations. All are welcome to our colloquium which will be held on Wedenesday, February 6 at 6 PM. Further information available at wwww.csupomona.edu/urp A university restructuring plan has been proposed at Cal Poly Pomona that would deconstruct a design-oriented school. We are fighting this proposal, which would send urban planning, landscape architecture and the Lyle Center to a college of science, architecture to engineering, and graphic design to business. I hope that we will prevail, but the crisis is forcing an examination of the nature of collaborations of planning programs with related design disciplines.

Our 2008 Dale Prize event will be a dialogue between Paul Farmer, Executive Director of APA and Marvin Melacha, President Elect of AIA on the nature of these collaborations. All are welcome to our colloquium which will be held on Wedenesday, February 6 at 6 PM. Further information available at wwww.csupomona.edu/urp

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