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Nicholas de Monchaux

“Fashioning Apollo: Spacesuits, Cities, and How to Dress for Tomorrow”
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 1:00am
Media Theater, Theater Arts Center (UCSC)
Presented by: 
Art Dept.
Arts Division

A free public lecture by Nicholas de Monchaux, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UC Berkeley, part of the Creativity+Innovation series.

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This talk is the story of those spacesuits. It is a story of the Playtex Corporation’s triumph over the military-industrial complex—a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics.

 

ATC@UCSC, in conjunction with the Art Technology and Culture Colloquium of the Berkeley Center for New Media, presents as part of the UCSC Division of the Arts Dean's Lecture Series on Creativity and Innovation.

 

This presentation is part of the series of free, public lectures in the Dean's Lecture Series entitled "Creativity and Innovation" (part of the course Art 80V: "Issues and Artists" taught by Associate Professor Lewis Watts). Arts Division Dean David Yager has selected nine speakers, all noted for their unique ability to bridge innovation and creativity within their professional career paths. The public is cordially invited. Admission is free. Parking $3.

 

Lectures scheduled Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. through June 2 in the Media Theater. 

 

Sponsored by the UCSC Division of the Arts and the UCSC Art Department 

 

The Media Theater is the lecture hall located next to the traffic circle in front of the Mainstage Theater at UCSC.