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

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.