How typography and interactive media can bridge Iranian cultural heritage and contemporary American aesthetics.
Abstracts
From Designer to Design Facilitator: Turning Studios into Dewey-Inspired Learning Labs
By staging role-play inside a typographic grid, students move from doing to knowing—reflecting on their choices as they make them.
Creative Computation in the Age of AI: Reimagining the Boundary of Human Creativity
How negotiated systems encourage relational authorship and systemic sensitivity.
Typography of the Transreal: N.H. Pritchard’s The Mundus
It can be seen, spoken aloud, even meditated upon.
Inclusive Characters: Merging Aesthetics and Accessibility in Type Design
Typefaces that prioritize disability concerns to reduce barriers to equitable access for written material.
Resonant Pages: Artist Books, Natural Rhythms, and Digital Interactivity
How environmental data and creative technology can expand the narrative.
Gender, Transgression, and Ritual Torah Preparation
The highly scripted ritual performances, material processes, and acts of mediation that characterize the Torah scribing process.
Mashq Conference 2022 on Arabic Type and Typography
Seasoned pioneers in Arabic typography to emerging younger practitioners and academicians.
Chicago Designs: Teaching Community-Based Histories
A workshop that promotes the teaching of local design archives.
Mitigating Youth Violence: The Futuring Project: Audacious Narratives & Enduring Voices
An arts enrichment program aimed at addressing youth violence in South Bend, IN.