Research in Communication Design
Design Incubation is excited to announce a partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing for the Design Incubation Educators Awards.
Bloomsbury publishes books on various design education topics from academic research on the history and theory of the discipline through introductory textbooks to practical guides and manuals.
Bloomsbury will be sponsoring the 2017 Design Incubation Educators Awards competition.
“Paula Scher: Designer as Educator,” a documentary narrated by Debbie Millman, directed by Claudine Eriksson.
Date: April 25, 2017
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Type Directors Club, 347 W 36th St New York, NY 10018
Meaghan Barry, Assistant Professor at Oakland University and Aaron Ganci, Assistant Professor at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design, two of our 2016 Design Incubation Fellows have recently published in the journal Design and Culture.
Barry’s Statement of Practice interview with designer, performance artist, and Cranbrook Designer-in-Residence Elliot Earls explores the many facets of Earl’s practice and the evolution of his thinking about design, education and performance over the last several decades.
Ganci reviewed John McCarthy and Peter Wright’s text, Taking [A]part: The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation in Experience-Centered Design.
Barry and Ganci continued their writing projects with the support of Design Incubation’s Fellowship Director, Aaris Sherin, to craft these articles.
For more information on how Design Incubation supports design writing and publishing see the Fellowship page on the Design Incubation website. Applications for the 2018 program will be accepted June 1, 2017 – September 1, 2017.
http://www.alphabettes.org/takeaways-on-teaching-type/
Read Amy Papaelias’ delightful synopsis of the panel discussion on Teaching Typography. Amy is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at SUNY New Paltz and was one of the distinguished panelists at this past Saturday’s event at the Type Director’s Club.
San Jose State University in San Jose, CA will be hosting a Design Incubation Colloquium. Abstract submission deadline is August 5, 2017.
San Jose State University in San Jose, CA will be hosting a Design Incubation Colloquium on Saturday, September 30, 2017. All are welcome to attend. Details and agenda can be found on the Colloquium 4.1: San Jose State page.
We are accepting abstract submissions for presentations. Abstract submission deadline: August 5, 2017.
We invite designers—practitioners and educators—to submit abstracts of design research. Presentations are limited to 6 minutes + 4 minutes for questions.
For more details, see the Submission Process description.
The abstract submission are accepted online here. Questions can be directed to info@designincubation.com.
Please register for this free event if you plan on attending.
SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, NY will be hosting a Design Incubation Colloquium. Abstract submission deadline is July 15, 2017.
The State University of New York at New Paltz will be hosting a Design Incubation Colloquium on Saturday, September 9, 2017. All are welcome to attend. Details and agenda can be found on the Colloquium 4.0: SUNY New Paltz page.
We are accepting abstract submissions for presentations. Abstract submission deadline: July 15, 2017.
We invite designers—practitioners and educators—to submit abstracts of design research. Presentations are limited to 6 minutes + 4 minutes for questions.
For more details, see the Submission Process description.
The abstract submission are accepted online here. Questions can be directed to info@designincubation.com.
Please register for this free event if you plan on attending.
Peter Lusch
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
College of Arts and Architecture
Penn State
Danielle Oprean
Post-Doctoral Research Scholar
Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
Penn State
Multi-modal visualization has long been considered important for design communication through representation and presentation, yet it has not been explored through an interface. In this presentation we discuss the outline for our test of use of a new interface designed to provide a multi-modal experience of design representations through the presentation and review processes. This interface is being developed for use in an immersive environments lab, a unique presentation space that allows for large-screen display and virtual reality. Before implementing a new interface, testing needs to be done to identify issues and perceptions of how well it works. We aim to test the feasibility of using a multi-modal interface with advanced-level undergraduate students in the design disciplines (architecture, landscape architecture, and graphic design) as a way for them to communicate design through presentation and review. In this presentation we talk about how usability testing allows for the results of actual use of an interface to feed back into improving the overall design. Specifically, we will provide an overview of our application of usability testing in design disciplines to address our hypothesis that being able to view different modalities of design representation at one time is more meaningful to communicate design both during presentation and in the review process. Success of the meaningfulness of the interface will be explored through the TAM model (Davis 1992) of usefulness, ease of use, and behavioral intention. We will also present the primary end point goals for this study, including our human factors study, and our self-report measurement of actual use of the multi-modal interface through questionnaires measuring usefulness, ease of use, and behavioral intention.
This research was presented at the Design Incubation Colloquium 3.3: Kent State University on Saturday, March 11, 2017.
Adam Fromme
MFA Candidate
Department of Design
The Ohio State University
Urban transportation within the United States is at a critical point.
The automobile dictates our infrastructure, but there is a hunger for something else. Many mass transit solutions ignore the need to develop unique urban neighborhood identities. It seems time for a different approach. The Ohio State University’s Department of Design (Columbus, Ohio, USA) held a 16-week graduate studio in the spring of 2016 to explore this idea, based in our city’s needs.
The course structure provided a defined pathway through the problem’s complexity while allowing ‘the question’ to be responsive to the research. This sensitivity to the moment is in sharp contrast to traditional path-to-goal curriculum, yet reflective of most professional-facing design projects. While uncomfortable at times for the students, within this flexible format they were able to apply practices, trends, and technologies to specific city-, neighborhood-, and street-based needs in a system that would serve the unique needs of Columbus.
The deliverable was an immersive installation in a gallery space corresponding to the Barnett Symposium “Planning Creative Cities” 11–13 May 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. The 6 diverse graduate design students and their professor explored social change in a metro area, realizing that sometimes the best spark for change can come from building the tools to change the conversation.
This research was presented at the Design Incubation Colloquium 3.3: Kent State University on Saturday, March 11, 2017.
Hemalatha Venkataraman
MFA Candidate
Design Research and Development
The Ohio State University
In recent years, there has been a significant shift in the way design is being approached. What once used to be a traditional form of addressing an ‘issue’ through creative problem-solving and designing artifacts has moved to a contemporary space where one seeks the ‘right questions’ and looks for opportunities. This transition in the role of design has led to increased interdisciplinary collaboration and an exchange of different perspectives. A well-designed and constructed design research approach and methodology can help to unearth important voices and narratives in particular areas. The emphasis of this research lies in the socio-cultural realm.
It is particularly important that tacit and latent narratives are elicited in areas of socio-cultural concern. This research explores the use of a tool that lies at the intersection of art, design and social innovation i.e., in social practice. Eliciting stories from people using participatory methods in a non-threatening manner can help us to understand the delicate fabric of any given situation that design can address.
As a diminishing social ritual and artifact, the postcard (exchange) is applied as a tool in Participatory Design Research (a type of design research where the people with whom one is designing, are brought into the design process as the experts) which is where ideas and opportunities are generated and collected. Through a series of well-designed and illustrated postcards entrenched in design ethnography methods, conversations have the space for slow response and introspection, and dialogue. This provides participants their space, brings out honest narratives and forms deeper bonds that are needed in social design research.
The research approaches the use of the postcard exchange from multiple fields of art, design, social anthropology and material culture studies to explore the different means to elicit stories from participants as a participatory design approach.
This research was presented at the Design Incubation Colloquium 3.3: Kent State University on Saturday, March 11, 2017.
http://www.collegeart.org/news/2017/02/27/conference-submissions-for-caa-2018/
College Art Association (CAA) is accepting design submissions for the 2018 Conference in Los Angeles.
Although the stated requirement is that submissions come from members, CAA considers all submissions carefully and is especially interested in including design topics.
Questions can be directed to David Howarth, Chair of the Committee On Design, and subcommittee chair of Conference Content, Bess Williamson.
