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The 16th annual UCDA Design Education Summit is a national summit for design educators, chairs, and students, and continues an ongoing community created specifically for graphic design educators with opportunities for professional participation and development during this online event.

“Re-” is a prefix meaning again, anew, back, or backward. It allows us to frame ideas and activities with a new lens: revise, replay, repeat, refresh, return, review, rebound, retreat, reverse, rearrange, recycle, reiterate, and reassess. Over the past twelve months, those in the design education community have had to “re[noun/verb]” their course content, teaching methods, classroom practices, and means of student participation and inclusion.

The UCDA Design Education Summit: “Re-” will focus on how design educators have applied this prefix to their courses, their students, their projects, their research, and their personal practice. We are seeking individual and collaborative projects that highlight successes, failures, best practices, theories, and new models/conventions of applying “re-” to these problems.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

This event is open to UCDA members and non-members, design educators and practitioners, and students. UCDA is currently looking for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and posters for the upcoming UCDA Design Education Summit. All abstracts on any design-related topics will be considered, but preference will be given to papers focusing on the “Re-” topic. These submissions will be peer-reviewed.

The deadline is February 26, 2021.
Notifications will be made via email by March 19, 2021.



The following formats of presentations will be accepted:

Note: All presenters will be required to register and pay the registration fee for the UCDA Design Education Summit, but will be upgraded to All-Access at no additional charge.

Proceedings from past UCDA Design Education Summits

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Topics should address issues in design education and research and will be for 20-minute breakout session presentations to be held during the summit. 

Papers for the accepted presentations will also be included in the online proceedings.

Presentation Abstract Submission Procedure

• Paper/Presentation abstracts (a maximum of 300 words) must be submitted in PDF format only.
• Your name and name of institution (if any) should NOT appear on the abstract as we wish for the judging to be blind.
• Include your status (grad student, tenure track faculty, tenured faculty, visiting faculty, practicing designer, other) on the PDF file.
• Clearly indicate this is for a PRESENTATION.
• Title your PDF file as an abbreviation of your paper title and use the file extension .pdf (example: titlename.pdf).
• Include in your email your name, institution, institution type (2-year, 4-year, public, private, art school, etc.)
• Notification of acceptance will be made via email by March 19.
• If selected, the complete paper will be requested for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
• If selected, you will be asked to record your presentation that will be played during the conference and be available during this time to answer questions via chat.

CALL FOR POSTERS


The UCDA Poster Sessions provide an excellent forum for authors to present their work in an informal and interactive setting. Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results or for giving an introduction to interesting, innovative work. Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. 

The posters will provide information that address issues in design education. Posters that present work in progress and draw important conclusions from practical experience are also welcome. 



What is a poster? 

A poster is an opportunity to publish a short article and discuss it with your peers. It may be an overview of research-in-progress of a technical topic, problem, question, product, or case study. 

The typical poster is not just a shortened version of a conference talk (although those are acceptable); posters are less formal, more interactive, and may provoke argument.

Why posters?

• Increase the variety of points of view aired at the conference
• Encourage two-way communication
• Allow detailed and esoteric presentations
• Provide a forum for small presentations

Poster Submission Procedure

• Poster abstracts (a maximum of 300 words) must be submitted in PDF format only.
• Your name and name of institution (if any) should NOT appear on the abstract as we wish for the judging to be blind.
• Clearly indicate this is for a POSTER.
• Title your PDF file as an abbreviation of your poster title and use the file extension .pdf (example: postertitlename.pdf).
• Include your status (grad student, tenure track faculty, tenured faculty, visiting faculty, practicing designer, other) on the PDF file.
• Include in your email your name, institution, institution type (2-year, 4-year, public, private, art school, etc.)
• Notification of acceptance will be made via email by March 19.
• If selected, the complete poster will be requested for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
• If selected, you will be asked to record your poster presentation that will be played during the conference and be available during this time to answer questions via chat.

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS


This format is designed to provide a hands-on experience for those in attendance. Workshops could include a software tutorial, project-based, or creative outlet (e.g. typography project; printmaking; etc.)

. Sessions will last one hour. Please include what supplies or materials would be needed.

Workshop Submission Procedure


• Workshop abstracts (a maximum of 300 words) must be submitted in PDF format only.

Please include the following on your submission:

• Workshop leader (1), required; the organizer and leader of the workshop.

• Description of the workshop, and what it will address.

• Criteria on what materials will be needed or provided, or what the participant would need to bring (e.g. laptop with particular software, drawings, markers or other supplies, apron, etc.)
• Clearly indicate this is for a WORKSHOP.
• Title your PDF file as an abbreviation of your workshop title and use the file extension .pdf (example: titlename.pdf).
• Include in your email your name, institution, institution type (2-year, 4-year, public, private, art school, etc.)
• Notification of acceptance will be made via email by March 19.
• If selected, the complete paper will be requested for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
• If selected, you will be asked to record your workshop presentation that will be played during the conference and be available during this time to answer questions via chat.

CALL FOR PANEL DISCUSSIONS


This format is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas, methods, and/or experiences among an intellectually diverse group of scholars around significant questions related to a central topic. The purpose is to encourage contact among individuals or groups who may benefit from shared experiences, or to air different views on a controversial topic.

 The panel chair will introduce the topic and panelists will respond to questions chosen by the chair. The audience should be given an opportunity to respond and to introduce additional questions and comments for the panel. Sessions will last one hour, with 40-minutes of panel discussion and at least 20-minutes for audience questions and comments.



Panel Discussion Submission Procedure


• Panel discussion abstracts (a maximum of 300 words) must be submitted in PDF format only.

Please include the following on your submission:

• Chair (1), required; the organizer and moderator of the panel discussion.
• Panelists (2-4). These are presenters.
• The total number of participants must not exceed five.
• Please include the names and institutional affiliations of the chair and panelists, a description of the topic, and a brief list of questions the panel will address.
• The names of the chair and panelists should appear on the abstract.
• Title your PDF file as an abbreviation of your discussion title and use the file extension .pdf (example: titlename.pdf).
• Include in your email your name, institution, institution type (2-year, 4-year, public, private, art school, etc.)
• Notification of acceptance will be made via email by March 19.
• If selected, the complete paper will be requested for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
• If selected, you will be asked to record your panel discussion presentation that will be played during the conference and be available during this time to answer questions via chat.