DEC conference: "response_ability"

Spring 2010
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

Join the ongoing dialogue and debate about practical implementation and analytical discovery involving (and revolving around) design ethics, sustainability and our role as design educators to think, teach and promote both. How can we (should we?) imbue students with a feeling of responsibility towards their world? How do we embolden them to become thinking, ethical designers? How do we inspire them to look beyond specifying recycled paper at a project's end, and instead, think creatively & strategically at project conception, so as to make it wholly sustainable from start to finish? response. ability. = ideas. educators. Through a series of group discussions, lectures, learning sessions, speakers and workshops, opportunities for a free and open dialogue will be facilitated. Let's share our challenges and achievements, uncover our collective educational shortcomings, identify our collective responsibilities, and discover pathways towards achievable solutions, for the greater good of design and the global design community.

Contact: Amy Fidler
Conference committee: Matt Davis, Amy Fidler, and Jenn Stucker

Posted by designeducators in Events | May 25, 2009