Recipient of the 2nd Annual Research Grant Announced

The AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee is very pleased to announce the award of our second annual design research grant, determined through a competitive, peer-review process. This grant of $5000 includes scholarship that generates new knowledge, integrates design knowledge into other disciplines as an influential force, or explores new pedagogies through the teaching of design and evaluation of learning outcomes. This year's grant has been awarded to Deborah Littlejohn and Meredith Davis, North Carolina State University, for the project which they describe below: Post a comment (Nov 15)

Design Educator Conferences past and upcoming

Every three years the Design Educators Community Steering Committee selects 4 design educator conferences to each receive $10,000 support grants thanks to the generosity of Adobe.

The current cycle (2008-2010) kicked off in Baltimore, fall 2008 with Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World organized by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips,and Brockett Horne. In spring, 2009, Linda Bracamontes-Roeger, Joerg Becker, Sharon Oiga, Philip Burton, Marcia Lausen, and Matthew Gaynor presented Future History 3: 21st Century Curriculum. Many of the presentations for these events are archived on their sites.

Next spring, 2010, Response_Ability will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio. Organized by Matt Davis, Amy Fidler, and Jenn Stucker, Response_Ability "aims to foster an ongoing dialogue and debate about design ethics, sustainability and design education. How can we (should we?) create students who feel a responsibility to their world? How do we, as educators, instill the capacity for our students to become thinking, ethical designers? How do we teach them to look beyond specifying recycled paper at a project's end, but to instead, think creatively in the conception of their project to be wholly sustainable from the start?"

In fall, 2010, Object User Context will be presented in Raleigh, North Carolina. ... Post a comment (Aug 12)

DEC conference: "Objects Users Context: Privileging Context in Design and Design Education"

Fall 2010
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Post a comment (May 25)

DEC conference: "response_ability"

Spring 2010
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Post a comment (May 25)

DEC conference: Future History 3

March 7-8, 2009 Intercontinental Hotel, Chicago Post a comment (Mar 25)

DEC conference: Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World

October 17 - October 19, 2008 Baltimore Post a comment (Nov 25)

DEC at AIGA Design Conference 2007: Next

The 2007 AIGA Design Conference, Next, focused on just that: "what's the future of design?" As a community of design educators, AIGA DEC plays an important role in the shaping of the future of the practice. Following are the DEC-programmed affinity sessions (with podcasts for each): Post a comment (Nov 25)

DEC conference: Intent / Content

May 31 - June 3, 2007 Nashville, TN Post a comment (Sep 03)

DEC conference: Schools of Thoughts III: What's so graphic about graphic design? Educating in the age of ubiquitous media

March 9-11, 2007 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena California Post a comment (Jun 25)

DEC conference: Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media

April 4 - 6, 2007 Boston, MA Post a comment (Jun 25)

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