The AIGA DEC Track at the Margins AIGA National Conference was held from October 10 to 12, 2024. Thank you to the DEC community for your support and involvement in this track!

Logistics:
Natalie Tyree, DEC Co-Chair
Katie Krcmarik, DEC Co-Chair
Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton, Conference Co-Chair
Lisa Elzey Mercer, Conference Co-Chair
Giulia Donatello, AIGA National, Design Competitions and Events Manager
Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA National, Director of Design Content & Learning

Peer Review Process Lead/Coordinator:
Katie Krcmarik

DEC Steering Committee Communications:
Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton
Patricia Childers
Lisa Elzey Mercer
Vinicius Lima
Yvette Shen

Download the Abstract Book Here

Thursday, October 11th, 2024

• 1 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 1
  
  Panel:
  Sticky Icky AI: Preserving Creativity in the AI Tar Pits
  With Jena Marble and Isabel Bo-Linn
  
  
• 2 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 2
  
  Paper Presentations:
  Empowering Design Students: Engaging, Creating, and Evaluating with Generative AI
  By Leah Spalding
  
  From Homeland to New Land: Animation and VR Storytelling
  By Zahra Zare Reimagining Design
  
  Assessment: AI-Powered Labor-Based Rubrics
  By Shannon Zenner
  
  
• 3 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 3
  
  Panel:
  Incorporating Accessible Design Practices for Seen and Unseen Disabilities into Design Pedagogy
  With Jenny Kowalski, Ana Farnham, and Julie Sayo
  
  
• 4 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 4
  
  Paper Presentations:
  Enhancing Civic Engagement: Community-led Game Design in Marginalized Sectors
  By Magdalena Manríquez and Christian Sebastián
  
  Supergraphic Landscapes: Spatializing Justice through Design Education
  By Nekita Thomas
  
  Designing Wakanda & Black Liberatory Futures
  By Terresa Moses PhD

Friday, October 11th, 2024

• 12 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 5
  
  Paper Presentations:
  Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) Orientation Stages and Inequities in Design Education
  By Danilo Bojic
  
  If You Want To Decolonize, First Appreciate the Colonized
  By David Stairs
  
  Meaningful Connections: Awareness, Belonging and Community in Latinas with ADHD
  By Flory Sanabria
  
  
• 1 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 6
  
  Panel:
  Navigating Emerging Practices in Interaction and Experience Design Education
  With MiHyun Kim, David Oh, Nishra Ranpura, Cathryn Ploehn
  
  

• 2 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 7
  
  Paper Presentations:
  Science Fiction, Utopia, and Speculative Designa
  By Emily B. Yang
  
  F(r)ictions: Uchronia as Design Teaching Method
  By Adán Farías Forero
  
  Import / Export: American Design History in Guangzhou
  By Brockett Horne and Hailin Zhang
  
  
• 3 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 8
  
  Panel:
  Racism Untaught in Practice
  With Terresa Moses PhD, Andrew Shea, Angelica Sibrian, and Lisa Elzey Mercer
  
  
• 4 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 9
  
  Paper Presentations:
  Typography in the Public Sphere: Design as Public Address
  By Christopher Cote
  
  Tasmim Index: Publishing as Resistance
  By Nida Abdullah and Dina Benbrahim
  
  Shifting Graphic Design from the Margins of Industry to Deepen Learning Across the Lifespan
  By Kristina Lamour Sansone

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

• 11 AM EST: Design Educators Community Session 10
  
  Paper Presentations:
  Mental Health Matters: Supporting Student Mental Health by Co-designing mHealth Applications
  By Ting Zhou
  
  Need, Want, Love: Humans + Climate Change A Climate Change Communications Publication Case Study
  By Courtney Mayer
  
  Design Directions: Uniting Women in Design
  By Andrea Hempstead
  
  
• 12 PM EST: Design Educators Community Session 11
  
  Graduate Student Paper Presentations:
  Moving Beyond Human-Centered in Postsecondary Design Education: Towards a New Sustainability Pedagogy
  By Cindy Raspiller
  
  Conversation, Recognition, Reclamation, Care: An Autoethnographic Study of Recovery Through Making
  By Jessica Gobble
  
  Beyond Borders
  By Payoshni Immadi
  
  Black Brilliance, Beyond the Margins
  By Marlin McKnight
  
  Embodied Design Pedagogy: Learning Spaces as Worldbuilding
  By Cherilyn Tan
  
  Living at the Marginal Positions: Autoethnography of Global South Designers in the U.S. Design Education
  By Hien Phan

Posters and Visual Essays Digital Exhibition

View the work selected for the AIGA DEC Track Digital Exhibition!

• Gota as Mode of Understanding By Nida Abdullah
• Queer Diagramming By Mills Dray
• Embracing Immersive Tech from the Margins By Alexandria Fogarty
• Physical Pixels: Using Cross Stitch to Explore More a Mindful Design Process By Jennifer Kowalski
• Reimagining Tenure: Bringing Clinical Professors in from the Margins By Jena Marble
• United States for Abortion: Generating a New Visual Rhetoric for Reproductive Justice By Kathy Mueller and Alison Place
• Concept Map: Moving Beyond Human-Centered in Postsecondary Design Education By Cindy Raspiller
• Meaningful Connections: Awareness, Belonging and Community in Latinas with ADHD By Flory Sanabria
• Learning Kaithi: Design’s Role in Cultural Preservation By Anmol Shrivastava
• Social Printmaking in Chinatown as Equitable Design Research and Education By Emily B. Yang