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
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
Call for Submissions, Colloquium 12.3: Virtual Summer Graduate Panel
Call for Submissions, Colloquium 12.3: Virtual Summer
CFP: 2025 Design Incubation Communication Design Educators Awards
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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.
