Colloquia

Design Incubation Colloquium 12.2: Annual CAA Conference 2026 (In-person only)

Presentations and discussion in Research and Scholarship in Communication Design at the 114th Annual CAA Conference 2026

Fellowship

Academic Abstract Writing Program

Thursday, June 19, 2025
10:00am – 2:00pm EDT

Awards

2025 Design Incubation Communication Design Educators Award Recipients

2025 Design Incubation Educators Awards for recognition in four categories: Creative Work, Published Research, Teaching, Service.

Design Events

Designing Your Research Agenda (DYRA) 5.1

A panel discussion by design scholars about their research journeys.

Recent Abstracts

Backward by Design: Reframing AI Literacy through Systems Thinking and Critique Pedagogy

Training students to treat generative models as tools and as systems of meaning-making.

Typographic Thresholds: Addressing Climate Urgency

Design methodology and outcomes for two projects—a group exhibition and a large-scale installation.

Invisible Nightlife Review: Teaching Fiction as Design Practice

Poetic logs, imagined histories, diary entries, or hybrids about nightlife experiences that never happened.

Shearing Layers: A Framework for Reframing Contemporary Graphic Design Education

Builing upon Ethics, Theory, Methods, Profession, Technology, and Visual Trends layers, each operating on distinctive temporal cycles of change.