AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee is pleased to announce the award of our fourth annual design research grant, determined through a competitive, peer-review process. This $5000 grant includes scholarship that generates new knowledge, integrates design knowledge into other disciplines as an influential force, or explores new pedagogies through the teaching of design and evaluation of learning outcomes. This year’s grant has been awarded to Dr. Suguru Ishizaki of Carnegie Mellon University for his project titled, Making Design Research Matter:

Toward a framework for socially-responsible design research.