Fellow Fellows: Anne Dessing

2019-09-30T09:54:00-04:00

Fellow Fellows is a series that focuses on the increasingly important role fellowships play in architecture academia today. These prestigious academic positions can bring forth a fantastic blend of practice, research, and pedagogical cross-pollination, often within a tight time frame. They also, by definition, represent temporary, open-ended, and ultimately precarious employment for aspiring young designers and academics. Fellow Fellows aims to understand what these positions offer for both the fellows themselves and the discipline at large by presenting their work and experiences through an in-depth interview. Fellow Fellows is about bringing attention and inquiry to the otherwise maddening pace of academia, while also presenting a broad view of the exceptional and breakthrough work being done by people navigating the early parts of their careers.

This week we talk to Anne Dessing, the 2018-2019 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow at the University Illinois Chicago.

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Screen/Print #47: Fresh Meat's 'Of the City', from UIC

2016-11-09T12:05:00-05:00

Individuality is a prized commodity. “Dare to be different,” we’re told. “To thine own self be true,” inspirational posters implore, butchering a quotation from Hamlet that originally implied multiple, different meanings. But how? After all, the most punk of punks is the one who copies the best.

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Fellow Fellows: Anne Dessing

Screen/Print #47: Fresh Meat's 'Of the City', from UIC