An introduction to foundational concepts such as training data, bias, authorship, and algorithmic influence.
Abstracts
Design In the Posthuman Age / Biomorphic Typography
Students develop in-depth knowledge of machine learning, data politics, emerging technology, and climate change.
Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon
Informed by intersectional feminism, materialism, and post-structuralism, the author advocates for social and cultural orientations to graphic design history.
Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing
A book design, in collaboration with MAS Context, It Is Just Dave LLC, and Dark Matter U.
Backward by Design: Reframing AI Literacy through Systems Thinking and Critique Pedagogy
Training students to treat generative models as tools and as systems of meaning-making.
Typographic Thresholds: Addressing Climate Urgency
Design methodology and outcomes for two projects—a group exhibition and a large-scale installation.
Invisible Nightlife Review: Teaching Fiction as Design Practice
Poetic logs, imagined histories, diary entries, or hybrids about nightlife experiences that never happened.
Shearing Layers: A Framework for Reframing Contemporary Graphic Design Education
Builing upon Ethics, Theory, Methods, Profession, Technology, and Visual Trends layers, each operating on distinctive temporal cycles of change.
The Empathy Points Method: Integrating Identity and Bias Recognition Into Design Education
Leveraging the diverse experiences of design teams.
m(other)ing: Creating Design Research Space for Work on Parenting and Reproductive Journeys
New frameworks within design scholarship that validate personal, embodied, and politically entangled perspectives.