UCDA Design Education Summit

Design educators and graduate students—join your colleagues in the 15th annual UCDA Design Education Summit. This national summit for design educators, chairs, and students, continues an ongoing community created specifically for graphic design educators with many opportunities for professional participation and development.

PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE BETWEEN JULY 6-31, 2020

Human-centered design (HCD) is a creative approach to problem-solving for human needs. It starts with the people you are designing for and includes them as active participants and subject-matter experts in the creative process. They become partners and co-creators in designing products, services, interactions, spaces, and experiences that meet their actual needs. In the classroom, HCD creates opportunities for experiential learning, innovation, and social impact as well as connections to, and collaborations with other disciplines.

The UCDA Design Education Summit: Human Centered will focus on how HCD is shaping the way we engage, educate, and prepare students for a career in design. We are seeking individual and collaborative projects that highlight successes, failures, best practices, theories, and new models/conventions of engaging HCD in the classroom.

This free online summit is open to UCDA members and non-members, design educators and practitioners, and students. Included in the summit are on-demand recordings of the panel discussions, workshops, and paper and poster presentations selected from abstracts submitted through the peer reviewed process, that you may view at your convenience. 

Neil Ward, MFA
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Department of Art and Design
Drake University

Special thanks:
The Human Centered mark and branding designed by Katie Seglar, BA in Graphic Design and BAJMC in Advertising, Drake University. Expected graduation May 2021.

Michael Clayton, MFA
Associate Professor
School of Media and Design
University of the Incarnate Word

Camila Afanador-Llach
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Florida Atlantic University 

Jeanne Komp, MFA
Chair and Professor, Graphic Design and Fine Arts
Cabrini University

Josh Miller, MFA
Associate Professor, Communication Design
Kutztown University 

Kimberly Mitchell, MFA
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Bradley University

Dave Pabellon, MFA
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Dominican University

Doris Palmeros, MFA
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
University of the Incarnate Word

Victoria Pickett, MFA
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Coastal Carolina University

Melinda Posey, MFA
Associate Professor of Art; Design and Photography Coordinator
Union University 

Brit Rowe, MFA
Professor, Department of Art & Design
Ohio Northern University

Holly Tienken, MFA
Assistant Professor, Communication Design
Kutztown University

RJ Thompson, MFA
Adjunct Professor, Graphic and Interactive Design
Point Park UniversityAssociate Director of Student Engagement, College of Business Administration
University of Pittsburgh

Ting Wang-Hedges, MFA
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
Oklahoma State University 

Bill Ward, MFA
Instructor, Graphic Design
The Art Institute of Dallas

Liese Zahavi, MGD
Assistant Professor of Design, Department of Art & Art History
University of New Hampshire

Location: Free On-demand Event starting July 6

Date: July 31, 2020, midnight - July 31, 2020, 11:59 p.m.