College Of Creative Studies Talks Design, Future Of Technology

DETROIT – On April 14, the College for Creative Studies, Detroit?s lead design and creative college, is bringing in luminaries from Nike, Walt Disney, Warner Music Group, U of M and Ford to talk experience design and the future of technology.

CCS is on the cutting edge of this ever growing industry ? looking at human-technology interaction and offering a new MFA in Interaction Design beginning this fall.

Hosted at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education, this annual conference for students, faculty and Detroit?s creative community, promises a full day of presentations and real-time interactions examining the possibilities for this rapidly expanding field focused on the human context of design?how people use, need and respond to technology in their daily lives.

Presentations and Interactions by:

? Tesa Aragones, Senior Global Director, Nike+ Experience Design – Digital Sport at Nike

? Lawrence Burns, Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Michigan

? Sheryl Connelly, Global Trends and Futuring, Ford Motor Company

? Joanne Healy, Dean of Graduate Studies, CCS

? Mike Jbara, President of ADA, Warner Music Group

? Jeff Voris, Director of Connected Experiences, Walt Disney Imagineering

? Roland Yu, Co-Founder, yU+co.[lab]

WHEN: Monday, April 14, 2014,

9 a.m. ? 4:45 p.m.

WHERE: College for Creative Studies

General Motors Auditorium and Knight Foundation Gallery