Lupton DIY talk - Extra Credit

Design Your Life featuring Julia Lupton Visions and Voices
	Friday, March 25, 2011 : 2:00pm University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240 Admission is free. Reception to follow.
While pundits worry about the increasing amount of time young people spend online in dematerialized virtual spaces, we have also witnessed an explosion of practices and devices that return our attention to the hand. From the online craft vendor Etsy to the tactile interfaces of our iPhones, the body and the digital are deeply interlaced. The Touch of the Hand in the Digital Era is a two-part series that will consider the particular roles that touch and the emotions play in our sense of self and the world. Julia Lupton will offer a wide-ranging exploration of the D.I.Y. impulse of the past decade. The do-it-yourself movement, which signals the resurgence of craft and the handmade in contemporary life, exists in interesting tension with the widespread use of digital media. Julia Lupton is ideally poised to address this seeming paradox. She is a noted Shakespearean scholar who has published a series of popular books focused on design and everyday life, including Design Your Life, D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself and D.I.Y. Kids. She will also engage the audience in a hands-on D.I.Y. experience. Related Event: Feeling the Screen: Tactility and Emotion in the Digital AgeMonday, October 4, 4 p.m. Doheny Memorial Library, Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240 For more info, click here. Organized by Philip Ethington (History and Political Science) and Tara McPherson (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by the Center for Transformative Scholarship. Image: Ellen Lupton For further information on this event: visionsandvoices@usc.edu