The notion of decolonizing type is massive in scope: from its history, to its design, application, technology, and future.
Abstracts
Interactive Storytelling for Packaging: Design Using Augmented Technology to Explore Personal and Social Identities
Students explore and investigate the abstract concepts of personal, social, and intersectional identities.
Redefining The Default: Decentering Pedagogical Perspective in the Typography Classroom
Educators need diverse representation in course materials—students must feel seen in order to truly succeed.
Mash Maker: Improvisation for Design Student Studios
A design charrette that explores the collision of time and form through a system of carefully devised prompts.
Utterly Butterly Propaganda: An Analysis of Illustration as a Tool of Persuasion in Amul™ Ads
A pop culture icon and a beacon of upper-caste, liberal politics in India.
Social Media as Design-Writing Process Tool
This process relies on steps familiar to designers: problem identification, research, and the cyclical process of iteration, making, and user testing.
Designing Products of the Future Through Speculative Design
In design education, it is vital to bring future thinking into class projects
Understanding Racial and Gender Bias in AI and How to Avoid It in Your Designs and Design Education
How biases are present in our design processes and design tools
Addressing Opportunity: The Landscape of Inequality
Investigating how space, social consciousness, and populations interact between the relationship of individual-level actions and community-level outcomes
Stories from the Mchafukoge: Kanga as a form of Visual Communication
Kanga cloth, cotton fabric wraps screen printed, typically in three colors, that measure about 39 inches x 59 inches, are bought and sold in Tanzania and Kenya