{"69092":{"#nid":"69092","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Design Students Document Milan Design Week","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA group of Industrial Design class of 2009 alumni calling themselves \u201cRoji\u201d recently returned from Milan Design Week 2009 with a feature-length documentary in which the freshly graduated students seek starting points for design careers in a cracked economy. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project was \u201cborn out of the realization that we can take our futures into our own hands as entrepreneurial, self-reliant young Americans,\u201d said Roji member Travis Eckmark. \u201cThis film is a research project on how to \u0027make it.\u0027\u201d\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the piece, the students interview well-known designers Ingo Mauer and David Trubridge, and young, up-and-coming designers like 5.5.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Roji project will make an appearance Friday, May 15, at Design Is Human, the opening exhibition of Modern Atlanta. [tickets at http:\/\/modern-atlanta.org\/buy_tickets\/] In addition, the trailer will precede screenings of the Koolhaas film HouseLife on May 16 at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/modern-atlanta.org\/ma\/film-series-at-the-high\/\u0022\u003EThe High Museum Hill Auditorium\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGet to know Roji through updates and bios at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rojigroup.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.rojigroup.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EConnecting science, technology and the arts, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECollege of Architecture at Georgia Tech \u003C\/a\u003Echampions advancements in the designed and built environment. The extraordinary legacy of its one-hundred year history is evident around the globe - from the invention of the atrium hotel by John C. Portman (1950) to the design for the World Trade Center Memorial in New York by Michael Arad (1999). The College houses seven interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Music Technology, the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, the Center for Geographic Information Systems, the Construction Resources Center, the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory, the Interactive Media Architecture Group in Education and the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"\u201cRoji\u201d interviews reveal secrets of success"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRoji\u201d interviews reveal secrets of success.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2009-05-13 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:52","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69093":{"id":"69093","type":"image","title":"Roji conducting interviews","body":null,"created":"1449177228","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:48","changed":"1475894604","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:24"}},"media_ids":["69093"],"groups":[{"id":"1225","name":"School of Industrial Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"637","name":"design schools"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"651","name":"georgia tech industrial design"},{"id":"652","name":"industrial design schools"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}