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As user needs evolve and well-being becomes a key driver in design, college libraries are transforming from traditional repositories of knowledge into dynamic “third spaces” that serve as community hubs. Explore how these transformative changes are redefining library design in our latest research findings: https://hubs.la/Q02PtX4Q0

🚨 CALL FOR PROPOSALS 🚨 The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) is excited to announce that we will host an educator track as part of Margins, the 2024 AIGA Design National Conference, to be held virtually on October 10-12, 2024. This call for proposals seeks submissions from educators, graduate students, and industry professionals that address ideas and topics connected to the theme Margins as it applies to design education and research. As the National conference call noted, margins represent spaces of opportunity, challenge, and innovation. Whether it's centering marginalized communities, embracing experimentation and failure, pursuing new avenues for teaching and research, or exploring new technologies, the DEC track for Margins encapsulates a spectrum of possibilities for design education and research. Proposals might address questions of... → Teaching practices and research that explore the margins of the discipline, including social justice, decolonization, accessibility, climate activism, and any other practice pushing the boundaries of the discipline and the role of design within the broader culture. → How design education and research can and does center marginalized communities and expands the discipline beyond the canon and Western design practices. → Exploring new technologies currently at the margins of design education research and how they will impact design practice and design education. → Institutional/Systemic changes regarding tenure requirements, paths to graduation, co-curricular programming, and new processes that re-imagines education and research as opportunity spaces that have been historically left at the margins for faculty, staff, and educators. → The margins of design research and education, including emergent practices and teaching methodologies and practices that will shape professional practice and student preparation in the near future. Proposals of 500 words or less are due by Friday, July 26, 2024. No extensions will be offered. Notifications will be sent in late August. All proposals will be reviewed in a double-blind peer-review process. Link for more details and submission form: https://lnkd.in/gYKgyv8V #aigadec #designeducators

🚨 A FEW HOURS LEFT TO SUBMIT! 🚨 The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) will host an educator track as part of Margins, the 2024 AIGA National Design Conference, to be held virtually on October 10-12, 2024. This call for proposals seeks submissions from educators, graduate students, and industry professionals that address ideas and topics connected to the theme Margins as it applies to design education and research. As the National conference call noted, margins represent spaces of opportunity, challenge, and innovation. Whether it's centering marginalized communities, embracing experimentation and failure, pursuing new avenues for teaching and research, or exploring new technologies, the DEC track for Margins encapsulates a spectrum of possibilities for design education and research. Proposals might address questions of... - Teaching practices and research that explore the margins of the discipline, including social justice, decolonization, accessibility, climate activism, and any other practice pushing the boundaries of the discipline and the role of design within the broader culture. - How design education and research can and does center marginalized communities and expands the discipline beyond the canon and Western design practices. - Exploring new technologies currently at the margins of design education research and how they will impact design practice and design education. - Institutional/Systemic changes regarding tenure requirements, paths to graduation, co-curricular programming, and new processes that re-imagines education and research as opportunity spaces that have been historically left at the margins for faculty, staff, and educators. - The margins of design research and education, including emergent practices and teaching methodologies and practices that will shape professional practice and student preparation in the near future. Proposals of 500 words or less are due by Friday, July 26, 2024. No extensions will be offered. Notifications will be sent in late August. All proposals will be reviewed in a double-blind peer-review process. See https://lnkd.in/gYKgyv8V for more details and for the submission form. #aigadec #designeducators

In this episode of EDUCAUSE Exchange, we explore how designers can keep evolving their perspectives to help students and faculty feel comfortable to learn and engage. https://lnkd.in/egnpvWyS

Although this article is specific to diverse body sizes in academic and campus spaces, it addresses some core issues around ableism in space design that applies universally. 10 Vital Ways to Support Fat Students on Campus: https://lnkd.in/ernFmtxN

Today is #InternationalDayofEducation and we're looking at 10 key design principles for higher education spaces 🍎 When designing a higher education space, there are several considerations to keep in mind to establish the right foundation for a teaching environment. These include: 🤸 Flexibility ☕ Comfort 💬 Community space Read our latest article to discover the 10 key design principles for designing higher education spaces ⬇️ #highereducation #educationspace #workspacedesign

"Who has a seat at the table to speculate the alternative?" Urgent Pedagogies is an project by The International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm (IASPIS). It is a project for inquiry, sharing knowledge and experience on how socially engaged critical spatial practice may act in relation and response to the urgencies of social justice and equality, contested territories and conditions of conflict. We've been invited by Magnus Erikson Head of the IASPIS Applied Arts programme to contribute to the archive by sharing the theory behind our practice at Space Black. Founded in 2021, our studio is an evolving critique of the profession. The model is an ongoing response to our lived experience combined with time spent in traditional practice. Speculative design and the unbuilt stemming from research have, time and time again, been seen to define our futures. Theory leads to practise and creates cultures. As cracks deepen in modernism’s failure to communities and our climate, we have to rethink who has a seat at the table to speculate the alternative. Read the full piece below

5 Trends For Education Facility Design is now up on our blog — Carnegie Convo! Read about the latest trends in education design curated by our Design Services team: https://okt.to/0KRuoA

Exciting news! Check out the new look of our website, aimed to enhance your browsing experience and access to valuable resources. Explore the revamped design at https://lnkd.in/gMSTjZ62 now! #WebsiteLaunch #FreshLook

Community colleges play a vital role in promoting educational equity and opportunity, but they face challenges like declining enrollment and low transfer rates. Architects like HMC’s Eric Skiba are exploring innovative design solutions to create inclusive, supportive environments for student success. Check out Erik's article on Spaces4Learning, "Revolutionizing Community College Success" where he explores how architects can help address these pressing challenges. #hmcarchitects #designforgood https://lnkd.in/gafR4iQj