DEC conference: The Design Frontier: Graphic design education in small programs and nonurban regions

December 1-3, 2006 Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO

Many U.S. graphic design educators are blazing trails on the frontier in the country's smaller graphic design programs, often in regional towns without big professional graphic design communities and AIGA chapters to provide adjunct faculty, professional role models, student internships, and entry level jobs. This conference will focus on this special condition, and bring these dispersed graphic design educators together to build educational networks and interact as a community.

The program content will focus on the needs and accomplishments of these maverick educators, including the challenges and possibilities of dispersed conditions and small faculties, trans-disciplinary and intercollegiate courses, professional collaboration, best practices, community outreach, problem solving tools, long-distance communications, scholarly development, networking strategies, student and faculty exchange programs, curricula for small faculties, internships and placement methods, sharing visitors, distance learning, and online resources. The program will feature several main-stage speakers interspersed with several sessions of educator papers chosen by a peer review committee. A concluding panel discussion will involve all participants. A website will archive the conference proceedings and begin an ongoing forum for discussion, collaboration, and sharing.


Conference chairpersons: Fred Murrell, Michael Mages and Katherine McCoy

www.designfrontier.org

Posted by designeducators in Events | February 25, 2007