Douglas R. Seidler

The Material Project is a material & building reference that anyone can edit. This type of community edited knowledge base provides an opportunity for design professionals and graduate students to share their material research and building research with each other as an accurate and evolving investigation on material in design.

The Material Project was started in the Fall 2005 semester as a printed research collaborative of graduate students studying Advanced Materials and Methods at NESAD in Boston, MA. The collaborative, lead by Professor Douglas R Seidler, continued into the Spring 2007 semester. The written collaborative and resulting knowledge base was migrated to the MaterialWiki project in the Spring 2008 semester.

see more: materialproject.org

Suffolk University has partnered with Apple to publish audio content from course lectures through iTunes U.Doug Seidler will podcast lectures from his Advanced Interior Design Communication studio in the Spring 2008 semester.  Students can download free archived lectures through iTunes. These audio archives can be played on any computer and any mp3 player.To access the lectures:

1. Download and install the newest version of iTunes
2. Log in to Campus Cruiser
3. Click the BlackBoard link at the top of the page
4. Click our course link from your list of courses
5. Click the iTune U link

Once you setup the podcast, iTunes will automatically download new lectures after each class (you will not have to follow the steps above).