First Critic-in-Residence: Peter Hall
The Design Criticism MFA Department is pleased to announce its first Critic in Residence: Peter Hall. Peter will join us for the week of December 7th to assist second-year students with their thesis projects. He will also deliver a Tuesday night lecture on December 8th, which is open to the public.
Peter Hall is a design critic, and senior lecturer in design at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches design theory, history and journalistic methods of research and writing. His research focuses on mapping as a design process. Between 2001 and 2007 he was senior editor and Fellow at the University of Minnesota Design Institute, where he co-edited with Jan Abrams the book, Else/Where: Mapping—New Cartographies of Networks and Territories and organized several symposia and workshops on mapping. He has been a contributing writer for Metropolis magazine since 2000 and has written widely about design in its various forms, including gaming, elevators, building graphics, bridges, neon lights and office chairs, for publications including Print, I.D. Magazine, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He taught a seminar class on design theory and writing at Yale School of Art between 2000 and 2007. He wrote and co-edited the books Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist, Sagmeister: Made You Look and Pause: 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics. Since 2006 he has been vice president and co-organizer of DesignInquiry, a non-profit educational organization devoted to researching design issues at an annual gathering in Vinalhaven, Maine.
