These conference presentations mostly followed competitive peer-review of an abstract. They may be hard to follow out of their original contexts, but I’m happy to discuss the ideas they encapsulate.
2018 DECIPHER: 2018 Design Educators Research Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. My peer-reviewed poster and paper described ARS329 Design Research, a course I initiated and continue to improve upon. The course is required for all Graphic Design BFA students in their junior year and is a prerequisite for the two-semester BFA thesis sequence.
2017 Design Incubation Colloquium 4.0 Design Incubation, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. My peer-reviewed presentation proposed a theoretical framework for the emergent field of Fashion Tech and demonstrated it in action. Very often theory and practice don’t talk to each other. It’s important to me that theory can be usefully applied. https://designincubation.com/publications/abstracts/theorizing-fashiontech-as-an-emerging-design-practice/
2012 Design City: Berlin Design Inquiry conference, Berlin, Germany. My presentation was about teaching design from the progressive participatory design/co-design point of view.
2011 Design City: Montréal Design Inquiry conference, Montréal, Canada. While in Montréal I visually documented what appeared to be street art and then backtracked to determine its provenance. Rather than these works being spontaneous expressions of creativity I found that they were all subsidized public arts projects (yarn-bombing, anyone?!).
Design City: Montréal also yielded a short piece, Seven Photographs of Expo
2008 Networks of Design The Design History Society (UK), University of Falmouth, Cornwall, UK. Peer-reviewed. Maternal divide: non-human actors as mediators of space between mothers and young children
Massaging Media 2 AIGA Educator’s Conference, Boston, MA. Peer-reviewed. Media Studies in Communication Design Curriculum
2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI. Peer-reviewed. Literacy by Design
2005 Revolution: Philadelphia AIGA National Design Education Conference 2005, Philadelphia, PA. Peer-reviewed. Making Change: Slowly, But With Precedent