Abstracts

Please read through all of abstract submissions that were accepted to the Social Studies Conference. Discussion topics were split into several groups. Also part of the conference were several workshops for the attendees to participate in and presentations from MFA candidates about their respective schools and programs.

• Workshops

• Happy Accidents Letterpress Lab
• Gonzo Bookbinding
• Book Arts for Designers
• Learning Styles and Creative Problem-Solving
• Probes: A Designerly Way of Researching
• Educating Emotionally Intelligent Designers
• The Post-American Design World
• Web Design for Print Designers, A Hands-On Workshop
• Your Word Here: Political Totes
• Teaching Design Theory: How and Why

• Typography

• The Legibility Manifesto
• Type and Tactic
• Typographic Learning in the Digital Space
• Teaching the relational nature of typography

• Basics

• Telling the Basics
• Learning to See: Generative Methods for Disciplining Visual Perception
• Some Ruinous Habits and Rhetorical Questions

• Collaboration

• Cross-Pollination: An Interdisciplinary Redesign of the University Library
• Collaborative navigation: a real-world project in spacial orientation
• SiteWork: Building Citizen Designers
• Cartographers of a Collaborative World

• Time + Motion

• Transforming Programming into “Fungramming”
• Understanding Interaction through People, Settings, and Scenarios
• The Language of Motion

• Social Media

• Building the Better Mouse-trap: Applied Learning Pedagogy in New Media Education Models
• Wikified: Particpatory Learning in the Design Studio
• Creating an E-Learning Community

• Community Service 1

• What could you do with 24 hours?
• Take Root: Collaboration and Community Partnerships
• Indiana University Graphic Design Program and Bloomington Volunteer Network
• Pictor Graphics: A university-owned, student-run design and print service

• Community Service 2

• Engaging Clients in a New Way—redirecting the request
• The public space of design education
• Engaging Design—Impacting Students and Society

• Activism

• Awakening Engagement through Information Design Education
• Serving the Underserved: The equation between design education and quality of life
• Who are we now and what do we believe in?

• Sustainability 1

• A New Literacy: Sustainability
• Consumption-Free Design: Material Discovery and Personal Interaction
• Package Design and Sustainability

• Sustainability 2

• Place, Space, and Opportunity: Designers Confront Sustainable Challenges
• Re-Form and Re-Design: Design Education and Ethics
• A Design Seminar Course Addressing Issues of Ethics + Sustainability

• Crossing Cultures 1

• Scratch, Tear, Build, and get Dirty
• Stock Exchange
• Words & Images: Publication Design for Writers and Designers

• Crossing Cultures 2

• Participatory Design for Public Health Education Messages in Uganda
• Think Internationally, Act Locally: Internationalizing Design Curricula
• Adding More Black Space: Integrating African American Visual Culture and History into Design Pedagogy

• Young Audiences

• Field Report: Social Marketing Design for At-Risk Teens
• Designing Front-end Participatory Tools with and for Children
• Teaching Design and Visual Literacy at the K-12 level

• Entering The Profession

• Design in the Business School: Teaching Outside the Academic Box
• Associates to Bachelors : Creating Opportunity in Flint, Michigan
• Visualizing design competencies, engaging the discipline

• New Careers

• The Designerless Office™
• NO CLIENT: five ways designers are changing their practice and the world
• Crafting A Career
• Designing the Next Paradigm

• MFA Panel

• GD MFA program, MICA
• Indiana University Herron School of Art and Design
• Media Design Program (MDP), Art Center College of Design
• The On-line MFA: Continuing Ed in the Real World
• “Audience, Context, AND FORM… oh my!”
• Department of Design, The Ohio State University

Videos

Presented are selected videos from the conference proceedings. Unfortunately, not every single event and presentation was able to be filmed. For those meetings that contained several speakers the videos have been separated into excerpts containing each individual presentation so that each speaker can be watched on their own.

• Keynote Speakers

• Scott Stowell
• Mieke Gerritzen
• Stefan Bucher

• Typography

• The Legibility Manifesto – Thomas Phinney
• Typographic Learning in the Digital Space – Michelle Wong Kung Fong
• Type + Tactic - Jon Pfeiffer
• Teaching the Relational Nature of Typography – Denise Gonzales-Crisp
• Q & A

• Basics

• Telling the Basics – John Bowers
• Some Ruinous Habits & Rhetorical Questions – Deborah Littlejohn
• Learning to See – Sean Bolan

• Collaboration

• Cross-Pollination – Amy Papaelias
• Collaborative Navigation – David Shields
• Sitework: Building Citizen Designers – Cheryl Beckett
• Cartographers of a Collaborative World – Audra Buck-Coleman

• Activism

• Awakening Engagement through Information Design Education – Angela Nord
• Serving the Underserved – Lisa M. Abendroth
• Who are we now & what do we believe in? – Elizabeth Resnick

• Sustainability 1

• A New Literacy: Sustainability – Barbara Sudick
• Consumption-free Design – James Pannafino
• Package Design & Sustainability – Scott Boylston
• Q & A

• Sustainability 2

• Re-Form and Re-Design – Peter Fine & Eric Benson
• A Design Seminar Course Addressing Issues of Ethics + Sustainability – Paul Nini
• Place, Space, & Opportunity – Aaris Sherin
• Q & A

• Crossing Cultures 1

• Scratch, Tear, Build, & get Dirty - Patricia Cué
• Words & Images: Publication Design for Writers and Designers – Stephanie Gibson & Amy Pointer
• Stock Exchange – Karen Lewis

• Crossing Cultures 2

• Participatory Design for Public Health Education Messages in Uganda – Leslie Robinson
• Think Internationally, Act Locally: Internationalizing Design Curricula – Carole Goodman
• Adding More Black Space: Integrating African American Visual Culture & History into Design Pedagogy – John Jennings
• Q & A

• Pecha Kucha

• Ellen Lupton - Introduction
• Christopher Vice
• Denise Gonzales Crisp
• Paul Nini
• Cheryl Beckett
• John Bowers
• John Jennings
• Elizabeth Resnick

• New Careers

• Introduction - Brockett Horne
• Crafting A Career – Jen Bennett Gubicza
• Designing the Next Paradigm – Alysha Naples
• The Designerless Office – Silas Monroe
• NO CLIENT: 5 ways designers are changing their practice and the world – Brockett Horne
• Q & A

• MFA Panel

• Pamela Napier - Indiana University Herron School of Art and Design
• Luke Johnson - Media Design Program, Art Center
• Vida Kluko - Miami International University MIUO
• Marty Lane & Rebecca Tegtmeyer - Masters of Graphic Design, North Carolina State University
• Erik Evenson - The Ohio State University
• Joe Galbreath - MICA

Booklets

The conference speaker abstracts were collected in a printed booklet as well. These were handed out to conference attendees. Copies are available for order for those who were not in attendance and would like one or those desiring additional copies.

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