school of social science - Hampshire College

'rHE DESIGN PROCESS/CONCEP'rS TO
COMPLETION: A WORKSHOP
Colin Twitchell/Glenna Alderson
"I wish someone would figure out a way for
this thing to work better."
That someone is you! Whether you're a
student who has never made anything in their life to
someone who would like to further explore the
possibilities of design, this class is for you!
In this Lemelson Program sponsored course
students will have a unique opportunity to create or
modify a recreational product by changing how it
works or how it looks. Participants will be
encouraged to explore their creative side by learning
to work with fabrics, metal and plastics. Working in
the fabrication shop students will learn design and
fabricating skills that they can apply to their course
projects.
New Faculty Blographys
Laurie Alberts, (IIA) visiting assistant professor of
writing. graduated from Hampshire College and =ived her
MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. She is the author of
two novels. Tempting f·ate and The Price of Land in Shelby,
and a story collection, Goodnight Silky Sullivan. She has
taught at the University of New Mexico, :-iorwich University,
and the Antioch New ["'gland Graduate School.
Awam Amkpa, (HA) adjunct assistant professor, is lUI
assistant professor of theatre arts at Mount Holyoke College.
lie received his BA from the University of Ifc, Nigeria;
Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria; PhD, University of
Bristol, England.
Joseph Hernandez Cruz, (CCS) assistant professor of
philosophy and cognitive science, holds a B.A. in
philosophy from Williams College and will =ive the
Ph.D. in philosophy and cognitive science from the
University of Ariwna. His philosophical areas of
spccializatiml arc epistemology ,philosophy of mind, and
philosophy of psychology. In cognitive science, his
research is primarily in neural network modeling and in
cognitive development. religion departments, and has worked
in thc Infant Cognition Lab. Joe's current work attempts to
naturalize epistemology by developing novel links between
traditional philosophical approaches to knowledge and
contemporary cognitive science. Other projects in progress
include investigating folk psychology and mental state
attribntion, distilling the psychological commitments found
in early modern philosophy (especially Berkeley's theory of
vision), and studying the relationship between feminist and
rutalytic epistemology.
John Fabel, (HA) visiting lecturer of Design, received his
BS and MS from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He has worked as a project consultrult for the Lemelson
National Progranl and as a designer for area businesses.
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The class will explore currently available
recreational equipment and the recreational market
through field study. Students who elect to continue
working on their projects after completion of the
course will have that opportunity available to them.
This course would be instrumental for students
wanting to develop a Division I exam project.
If you've always thought you had a 'better
idea', come put it to use!
Thomas Hno, (HA) Lemelson visiting assistant professor
of design, received his B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and his
M.EA. in sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. He
has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, the
George Walter Smith Art Museum. llis work has been shown
regionally.
Delilah Montoya, (HA) visiting assistant professor of
photography, received her BA, MA, and MI' A from the
University of New Mexico. She has tanght at the College of
Arts and Letters, California State University, Los Angeles, the
Institute of American Indian Art and the University of New
Mexico. Her work has been shown nationally and
internationally and is in the collections of several major
museums.
Tom MUIT8Y, (CCS) Lemelson \'isiting assistant
professor of computer science and instrnctional theory,
received a B.S. in physics from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. an M,S. ill computer science and a doctorate in
education/instructional technology from the University of
Massachusetts. Tom has worked as a research scientist in
the area of artificially intelligent computer tutors, has
worked in industry developing multimedia-based training
software, and has been an adjunct professor at the University
of Massachusetts teaching in the area of computer-based
learning and instructional design theory.
Bethany Ogdon, (CCS) visiting assistant professor of
media studies, =ived her BA. in political science and her
M.A. in English and American literature from the
University of California, San Diego. She is currently
completing her Ph.D. in visnal and cultural studies at the
University of Rochester. She has taught at the University
of Glasgow, the University of Rochester and Hobart &
Willirun Smith Colleges. Her published work includes
essays on contemporary forms of televisuality and
psychoanalytic theory, ideology and identity in the hardboiled
detective novel, and Nicholas Nixon's "People with
AIDS· photography. She is currently working on the
relationship between the reality television phenomenon and
issues of national identity, democracy and the public sphere
in late twentieth-century U.S. culture.