Colloquia
Design Incubation Colloquium 12.3: Virtual Summer
Event date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Format: Virtual/Online
Location: ZOOM
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.
Call for Participation
CFP: Academic Abstract Writing Program 2026
Call for Submissions, Colloquium 12.3: Virtual Summer Graduate Panel
Call for Submissions, Colloquium 12.3: Virtual Summer
Ask the Expert
How Do Design Research Journals Evaluate the Quality of Submitted Articles?
Tips for Design Scholars Looking to Publish in a Design Research Journal
Ideas for Interactive Online Design Instruction
Recent Abstracts

Generative AI for Visual Communication: Designing Human-Centered, AI-First Pedagogy
An introduction to foundational concepts such as training data, bias, authorship, and algorithmic influence.

Design In the Posthuman Age / Biomorphic Typography
Students develop in-depth knowledge of machine learning, data politics, emerging technology, and climate change.
Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon
Informed by intersectional feminism, materialism, and post-structuralism, the author advocates for social and cultural orientations to graphic design history.

Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing
A book design, in collaboration with MAS Context, It Is Just Dave LLC, and Dark Matter U.

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.
