AIGA Design Educators Community
The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) seeks to enhance the abilities of design educators and educational institutions to prepare future designers for excellence in design practice, design theory and design writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels while supporting the fundamental mission of AIGA.
Dialectic Call for Submissions
The AIGA Design Educators Community peer-reviewed, scholarly journal is now accepting submissions across all eight of the subject matter categories within which it publishes research, scholarship, and criticism in and around design education and practice and their intersections.
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SHIFT{ed}, a Design Education Summit: Recordings Available
Last year the AIGA Design Educators Community organized the SHIFT Summer Summit to explore the ways educators were shifting within and amidst the chaos of 2020, pivoting and changing course even while the world was rapidly changing around us. The DEC wants to return to these themes exactly one year later to find out how we have SHIFT{ed}, if we are still SHIFT{ing}, and the ways we must continue to SHIFT. Now that we have all had the chance to gain some perspective, with new methods and tools in place to tackle our teaching, research, and community engagement, we can come together and learn from each other once more.
Beyond the Bauhaus: The Gee’s Bend Quilters
Since the early part of the 1900s, the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama have narrated and re-written their lives through the creation of quilts. Gee’s Bend (also known as Boykin) is a small, rural, predominantly African-American community in Wilcox County, Alabama. The town, which sits enclosed on three sides by the Alabama River, takes its name from a plantation owner named Joseph Gee, who settled the town and built his cotton plantation on the land in the early 1800s. With him, he brought a group of eighteen enslaved African Americans. Today, almost all of Gee’s Bend residents are descendants of formerly enslaved people from Gee’s plantation.
Design Teaching Resource
The AIGA Design Teaching Resource is a peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections.
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Dialogue
The ongoing series of fully open-access proceedings of the conferences and national symposia of the AIGA Design Educators Community.
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Value Design Education Pledge
A set of working principles that serve as a foundation for enacting long-term, systemic change in design education and pedagogy.
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Graduate Student Posters
Seven posters that address the topic of Bridging Digital and Physical Experiences, which is one of the trends defined in AIGA’s Design Futures.
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Dialectic Journal
A scholarly journal of thought leadership, education, and practice in the discipline of visual communication design.
DEC Steering Committee
Jason Alejandro
Victor Davila
Ashley Hairston Doughty
Lee-Sean Huang
Katie Krcmarik
Co-Chair
Meena Khalili
Lisa Mercer
Ali Place
Co-Chair
Alberto Rigau
Kaleena Sales
Kyuha Shim
Rebecca Tegtmeyer
Natalie Tyree
Liese Zahabi
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