Abstracts – Design Incubation

Type as Cultural Bridge: An Interactive Fusion of Iranian and American Design

How typography and interactive media can bridge Iranian cultural heritage and contemporary American aesthetics.

By staging role-play inside a typographic grid, students move from doing to knowing—reflecting on their choices as they make them.

How negotiated systems encourage relational authorship and systemic sensitivity.

It can be seen, spoken aloud, even meditated upon.

Typefaces that prioritize disability concerns to reduce barriers to equitable access for written material.

How environmental data and creative technology can expand the narrative.

The highly scripted ritual performances, material processes, and acts of mediation that characterize the Torah scribing process.

Seasoned pioneers in Arabic typography to emerging younger practitioners and academicians.

A workshop that promotes the teaching of local design archives.

An arts enrichment program aimed at addressing youth violence in South Bend, IN.