DAAP s World-Class Programs Issue Open Invitation to the City

The University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) is routinely ranked among the very best in the nation and the world. And its students routinely excel – and are snatched up by firms as close to home as P&G and as distant as Salomon Sports in France.

However, before graduation, UC’s architecture, design, art and planning students transform their college into an extensive gallery and invite friends, family and the general public to view the design efforts that stand out at the head of a national class. The display of projects - placed throughout the college building - is called “DAAPWorks,” and it runs this year from June 5-9.

The list of 2007 projects includes

• Design for shoes created to protect diabetics’ feet and to combat the onset of potentially debilitating injuries and complications.

• Design for a “PB&J Café.” Eating a PB&J is a nostalgic experience closely tied to an American childhood, and this café elicits that nostalgia and adds to it. It’s “extreme” PB&J with exotic breads, jams and other nut and seed spreads.

• A photo project depicting sounds that drive people crazy.

• An analysis of Cincinnati’s aging, first suburbs.

• Model for an urban bicycle cart that solves the problem of transporting medium-sized loads (such as laundry and groceries) across the city. The design promotes a healthy, greener lifestyle in a safer, more convenient manner.

• Designs for a cooking school in Over-the-Rhine’s Findlay Market.

• Silkscreen prints and mixed-media art connecting art and food in photographs of desserts and other foods that are then incorporated into larger artworks.

• Designs for a system of props and tools to teach children the importance of nutrition.

• Planning study on the housing experiences and residential patterns of refugees in Hamilton County.

• Design for an Antarctica touring vehicle that functions like an on-ice cruise ship.

• A planner’s assessment of eminent domain in law and practice.

• Design for a new shin, ankle and tendon protection system for soccer players.

• A Web design to educate Americans regarding how U.S. hand gestures “translate” in other cultures.

• Designs for an online brand of fashionable clothing for women who have multiple sclerosis.

• Designs for a one-stop, “pet place” that combines a veterinary clinic, pet shop, grooming, doggy daycare, boarding and indoor/outdoor dog run.

DAAPWorks is free and open to the public. Hours of the show are

• Tuesday, June 5, 5-9 p.m.
• Wednesday, June 6, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
• Thursday, June 7, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
• Friday, June 8, 9 a.m.-11 p.m.
• Saturday, June 9, noon-5 p.m.

And, visit the online gallery of DAAPWorks projects.

DAAPWorks as a whole is sponsored by P&G Design. (UC’s end-of-the-year fashion show, also part of DAAPWorks, is sponsored by Macy’s.) For more information regarding DAAPWorks, call UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at 513-556-4933.

Background on DAAP

• BusinessWeek recently ranked DAAP’s design programs as among the world’s elite.

• I.D. (International Design) magazine listed UC among the globe’s Top Ten design schools – and the only public institution to make that list.

• National surveys of employers by DesignIntelligence have rated UC’s interior design program as number one in the nation for eight years straight. In addition, the university’s architecture and industrial design programs are rated number two in the nation.

• Industry publication, Planetizen, ranks UC’s graduate planning programs as among the best in the Midwest and nation.

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