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Dayton Hudson Faculty Fellows

The Design Center sponsors a Faculty Fellows program.

Faculty Fellows receive a grant of $6,000 and the title of Dayton Hudson Faculty Fellow at the Metropolitan Design Center. During the fellowship period, Fellows are required to present their work in an informal seminar and to prepare a two to six-page summary paper for publication in the Design Center's "design brief" series.

The Proposal

Proposals for Dayton Hudson Faculty Fellowships should be focused on a specific project for the fellowship year. Proposals need to meet the following basic guidelines:

Proposals are for research or creative work broadly related to the areas of interest of the Design Center.
Work conducted in the fellowship year will be submitted to peer review once it is completed. Peer reviewed work includes refereed journal articles, design competition entries, professional award entries, work submitted to juried exhibitions, and books that undergo substantial review by external reviewers before acceptance for publication.
Proposals should show how a Faculty Fellowship will make a difference. Where work is substantial and long-term (a large professional project, a book, etc.) it should be made clear how the Faculty Fellowship will help. Fellowship funding can be used to pay for research expenses such as research assistance, travel, fabrication, graphic production, data, and so on.
The applicants should be tenured or tenure track faculty members at the University of Minnesota (any field, any campus) or at universities and 4-year colleges in the wider Twin Cities region.

Applications will be reviewed according to the following criteria. The first four parallel the guidelines above. The criteria are not in order of importance:

Fit with the mission of the Design Center.
Proposal for peer review.
Usefulness of funding.
Eligibility of applicant.
Relevance, quality, and innovation of the proposed work and its capacity to advance the field of urban design.
Likelihood that the work will be completed.

All applications should include one copy of the following items:

A narrative describing the project and how it fulfills the review criteria above. The narrative must not exceed two pages and shorter proposals are welcomed. It should explain in a sentence or two how the funding will be used–elaborate budgets are not required--however, it is critical that the budget shows how Design Center funding makes a difference.
Up to one additional page of references or other supporting materials.
A curriculum vitae.

Proposals are due May 1 each year and should be sent via email, fax, or mail to:

David Lowe
Metropolitan Design Center
Suite 1 Ralph Rapson Hall, UMN
89 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0109, USA
Phone/Fax: 612-625-9000/ 626-0600
Email: mdc@umn.edu

If your CV is long, mailing is preferable. In that case you can email the proposal and put the CV in the mail.

Other information

The Design Center will appoint one to three Dayton Hudson Faculty Fellows each year.
It is possible to submit more than one proposal but only one award will be made to each individual in a given year.
Funding can be used for a variety of activities including but not limited to funding a student assistant, travel, bringing a collaborator to campus, supplies, specialized equipment, and reproductions of materials.
Notification of awards will be sent in May or early June. Funding will be available on July 1 and should be spent by September 30 of the following year.
A committee of members of the Director's Advisory Board and the Design Center Director selects Faculty Fellows.
For more information contact David Lowe, Metropolitan Design Center, Email: mdc@umn.edu

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