AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC)

I’m excited to officially announce that my book, Decolonising Design in Africa: Towards New Theories, Methods, and Practices, is now available online! This book is a game-changer for anyone interested in design, education, and decolonisation. It offers fresh insights into how African perspectives can reshape design practices and education globally. By exploring new theories and methods, this book empowers designers, educators, and scholars to create more inclusive and culturally relevant work. Whether you're looking to expand your knowledge or bring innovative approaches to your practice, this book has something valuable for you. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to engage with ideas that are shaping the future of design. Get your copy here: https://lnkd.in/gUcx5Fhy Thank you all for your support and interest! A big thank you to Routledge Taylor & Francis Group for their support in bringing this book to life and for their commitment to sharing new perspectives with the world. #DecolonisingDesign #AfricanDesign #InnovationInDesign #DesignEducation #NewBookRelease

Sponsorship for students and recent grads to attend conferences!

🗣 #AIGADesignConf Speaker Announcement 🗣 Are you ready to meet the latest round of design visionaries speaking at our upcoming virtual conference on October 10-12? Aligned with our #MARGINS theme, this talented group will hold presentations, design dialogues, and workshops centered on: 🔸 Amplifying voices 🔸 Embracing identity 🔸 Creating ethical frameworks 🔸 Designing for better democracies Introducing: 🎤 Billie Mandel, Social Scientist, Leadership Coach, and CEO of Mandel Creative 🎤 Alisha Tukol, Multi-Disciplinary Service Design Officer, International Monetary Fund (IMF) 🎤 Hieu Luong, Associate Creative Director, Hook 🎤 Nicolette F., Multidisciplinary Designer and Owner of Daculture 🎤 Mary Katica, Executive Design Director, IDEO.org 🎤 Gabriela Lucía L., UX Design Director, with an emphasis on sustainable business 🎤 Neha Bhatia, Independent Design Strategy Director, DrawHistory, a social impact agency 🎤 Josh Silverman, Founder & CEO, PeopleWork Partners, Inc. 🤩 We can't wait to hear their inspiring talks at the AIGA Design Conference on Oct. 10-12 🎫 Discounts available for members, student members, and educators 🎫 To learn more and secure your ticket, visit https://lnkd.in/ebKpQiMp

#question I am ready to start interviewing for my second book, Supertokens: the "First and Only's" in Design and Tech (maybe Business). Who is a living person of structurally marginalized identities that I should interview for my book? Please leave suggestions below. NOTE: The book will be less focused on individual portraits and more on what we can learn about resilience in the isolation of being the first and only in a field. Cheers, Dori

🚨 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

🚨 5 DAYS 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

📣 NEW DEC PUBLICATION RELEASE! 📣⁠ ⁠ Collective Inquiry into the Visual Essay: AIGA DEC 2022 Design + Writing Fellowship⁠ ⁠ Written by AIGA DEC and Edited by Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Liese Zahabi⁠ ⁠ In January 2022, a group of 18 design educators worked individually and collaboratively to discuss and investigate the history and future of an often-overlooked communication artifact: the Visual Essay. This format of visually displaying and combining writing and images offers an avenue for designers to conduct and disseminate their research through making practices. The fellowship was organized and facilitated by Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Liese Zahabi. Together, members of this fellowship investigated the origins, influences, and possibilities for this specific format and aim to share their learnings with the greater design community.⁠ ⁠ The DEC now has the pleasure of announcing that this collection of design artifacts has been recently published by Michigan Publishing on behalf of the AIGA DEC. The open-access tome is available at https://lnkd.in/gDEZUG6N Editors: Rebecca Tegtmeyer, Liese Zahabi⁠ ⁠ Fellows: Cheryl Beckett, Audrey G Bennett, Isabel Bo-Linn, Clare Bula, Alexandria Canchola, Carla Cesare, Patricia Childers, Heather Corcoran, Joshua Duttweiler, Gaby Hernández, Christopher Lynn, Ann McDonald, Bree McMahon, Christina Singer, Kyuha Shim, Omar Sosa-Tzec, Zack Tucker, Joshua Unikel⁠ ⁠ #designeducation #designresearch #aigadec #AIGADECShiftED #aiga⁠

📣 NEW DEC PUBLICATION RELEASE! 📣⁠ ⁠ Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences⁠ ⁠ Edited by AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) & Liese Zahabi⁠ ⁠ The DEC now has the pleasure of announcing that the Proceedings of the 2021 AIGA Design Educators Conference — Shift{ED} have been recently published by Michigan Publishing on behalf of the AIGA DEC. The open-access tome is available at https://lnkd.in/d9BTi-qW. You can also order a copy of the book if you would like.⁠ ⁠ Steering Committee: Liese Zahabi, Victor Dávila, Katie Krcmarik, Alberto Rigau⁠ ⁠ Authors: Elizabeth Buchta, Alan Caballero, Alexandria Canchola, Bernard Canniffe, David Clulow, Scott Gericke, Victoria Gerson, Dori Griffin, Brooke Hull, Daniela Marx, Jennifer McKnight, Gary Meacher, Cat Normoyle, Mudita Pasari, Kyuha Shim, Samira Shiridevich, Ana Tobin, Aggie Toppins⁠ ⁠ #designeducation #designresearch #aigadec #AIGADECShiftED #aiga⁠

📣 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: M(othering), an exhibition curated by Meaghan Dee (Virginia Tech) and Bree McMahon (University of Arkansas) 📣 ⁠ ⁠ This work will be displayed via a forthcoming exhibition to be held at the Perspective Gallery at Virginia Tech (March 2025), with additional exhibition opportunities possible. While only a selection of work will be displayed in the physical exhibitions, we hope to include all submissions in an online gallery of work.⁠ ⁠ Submissions (for consideration in the original exhibition) close August 11, 2024. Submit the work via https://lnkd.in/guQ78eiE ⁠ ✏️ Exhibition Information:⁠ Oftentimes, work related to motherhood, womb-bearing bodies, and reproductive journeys, does not find a place in design research. This is for a variety of reasons: stigma related to the conversation, mainstream disinterest (or discomfort), and a lack of a clear venue or place for dissemination and discussion. But design has a role in shaping experiences, improving outcomes, and connecting communities.⁠ ⁠ Reproductive care is universal. Whether you have a child or not, these experiences are part of human existence. While these events are universal, they are also universally politicized.⁠ ⁠ In the United States, Roe v. Wade was overturned in the Supreme Court, triggering legislation to further restrict access to reproductive healthcare and some even going so far as to criminalize abortion. This is compounded by economic challenges and a lack of legislative support for universal parental leave, childcare, and gun control.⁠ ⁠ We feel the weight of living through all of this—and many create work informed by their experiences. In some cases, the outcomes are personal, which can feel out-of-place in academic environments dominated by the tenure clock. Through this collection, we seek to provide opportunities to legitimize this work in academic, research-informed spaces.⁠ ⁠ We see the potential to create space to be seen, make an impact, and connect creators.⁠ ⁠ #designeducation #design #exhibition #callforentries⁠

🚨 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