Lauren Meranda
College of Arts and Sciences, Art + Design
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Office:
Room FA 252B
Email:
l-meranda@neiu.edu
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Country:
United States
Expertise
Lauren Meranda is a multi-disciplinary designer specializing in work for cultural institutions, social activism, civic engagement, and public memory through experimental media, collaborative storytelling, and interactive design for physical spaces.
Graphic Design 1
Typography 1
Interactive Design: Web 1
Contemporary Design
Special Topics in Graphic Design
Print Production
Senior Exhibition in Graphic Design
Design in Nature
Expertise
Lauren Meranda is a multi-disciplinary designer specializing in work for cultural institutions, social activism, civic engagement, and public memory through experimental media, collaborative storytelling, and interactive design for physical spaces.
Research Interests
As a designer and producer of visual culture, Lauren Meranda strives to find means by which to let public memory emerge from the stories of the people it is bound to define. The projects and exhibits she works on seek to empower the individual to participate in the storytelling process and expand public memory to include previously unheard voices. Her exhibits utilize site for the interpretation and continuation of historical narratives by linking research, education, and social engagement into an interactive designed experience. Lauren currently runs Studio Brazen and collaborates with the National Public Housing Museum.
Education
MDes, Graphic Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Bachelor of Fine Art, Visual Communication, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois
Selected Publications
Digesting Constructive Criticism: Practices for Not Becoming the Next Design Fail Meme / Columbia College Career Center ⁄ April 2018
Design Edu Today Podcast Ep. 45 / Featured Interview ⁄ April 2017
Selected Exhibitions
Chicago Design Through the Decades, Art on theMart, Chicago, Illinois
At Home: Ephemeral Monuments to Public Housing Residents, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Looking Back: Chicago Design Milestones, Chicago Design Archive, Chicago, Illinois
History Lessons: Everyday Objects from Chicago, Public Housing National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Housing as a Human Right: Social Construction, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Poster Exhibition, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Public School: A Stockyard Institute Exhibition, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois
Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Report to the Public: An Untold Story of the Conservative Vice Lords, Art In These Times, Chicago, Illinois
Unfinished Business: Art Education, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Redefining Democracy: Jane Addams and the Hull-House Settlement, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois