An explorative process, grounded in Positive Psychology’s core concepts like gratitude, acts of kindness, goal-setting, and mindfulness
Abstracts
You Look Like the Right Type
In a daily ritual since 2008, exact-dialogue fragments of overheard conversations are made into illustrated quotes
Making History: Teaching Design History Methods in Studio
Learning outcomes emphasized gathering information, examining sources, interpreting evidence, connecting design to social contexts, and crafting historical narratives in text and image
Co-Creating Compassion: Engaging the Alzheimer’s Community in Social Robotics for Caregiving
A robot for individuals grappling with Alzheimer’s disease that offers companionship, support, and aid in various caregiving tasks
Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design
Examples of sophisticated, intelligent design from many cultures around the world
Feminist Designer
A book that explores emerging feminist practices in design
Uncanny Ways of Seeing: Engaging AI in Design Practice and Pedagogy
A closed-loop approach that yields content that seems familiar and uncanny—alternate realities and speculative futures
Analyzing Local Graphic Design History: A Pedagogical Approach
Students visit local and online archives, and conduct research online to contextualize their artifacts in local and graphic design history
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in an Interdisciplinary, Experiential Course
A conceptual model that empirically examines the impact of interdisciplinary studies, participation in experiential learning, and the role demographics on learning outcomes.
Designing Dialogue: Leveraging Technology for Cultivating Inclusion and Belonging in Classroom Critique
CritMoves would allow faculty to create a set of specific prompts that would be randomly assigned to students via student cell phones