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