The 2020 Design Incubation Fellowship Workshop will include sessions by Maggie Taft, Founding Director of the Haddon Avenue Writing Institute; Jilly Traganou, PhD, Editor of Design and Culture; Louise Baird-Smith, Commissioning Editor – Design and Photography Bloomsbury Visual Arts; Robin Landa, Distinguished Professor, Kean University; and Andrew Shea, author of Designing for Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Design. Aaris Sherin is director of the Design Incubation Fellowship program.
Fellows 2020
Erin Beckloff
Assistant Professor
Miami University Ohio
Diana Duque
Independent researcher, Writer, Designer
MA Design Studies
Xinyi Li
Assistant Professor
Pratt Institute
Andrea Marks
Professor
Oregon State University
Sarah Martin
Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Kimmie Parker
Assistant Professor
Oakland University
Ali Place
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Sarah Rutherford
Assistant Professor
Cleveland State University
Ruth Schmidt
Associate Professor
Institute of Design
Illinois Institute Technology
Johnathon Strube
Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska Omaha
Augusta Toppins
Associate Professor
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Kelly Walters
Assistant Professor
Parsons School of Design, The New School
Derek Witucki
Lecturer
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Schedule
Day 1
Thursday, June 4, 2020
| 10:00am–11:00am | Introductions + icebreaker |
| 11:00am–12:00am | Exercise: What, why and how we write |
| 12:00am–12:20pm | Mini Break |
| 12:20pm–1:30pm | Presentation: Where writing meets publishing Aaris Sherin |
| 1:30pm–2:30pm | Lunch on your own |
| 2:30pm-6:00pm | Workshop: Editing and providing feedback Maggie Taft |
Day 2
Friday June 5, 2020
| 10:00am–11:00am | Live Q&A: Submitting a Book Proposal/Manuscript Louise Baird-Smith Commissioning Editor – Design and Photography Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| 11:00am–1:30pm | Group Exercise: Review and Feedback: Working drafts |
| 1:30pm–2:30pm | Lunch and Learn: (optional) Tenure and promotion discussion |
| 2:30pm–3:30pm | Presentation: The writing process, feedback and being a creative maker Andrew Shea |
| 3:30pm–4:30pm | Live Q&A: Submitting a Journal Article Jilly Traganou, PhD Editors of Design and Culture |
| 4:30pm–4:45pm | Mini Break |
| 54:45pm –6:30pm | Group Exercise: Review and Feedback: Working drafts |
Day 3
Saturday, June 6, 2020
| 10:00am–11:00am | Presentation: A Life in Writing: Contracts, Agents and monetary consideration Robin Landa Distinguished Professor Kean University Author over twenty books |
| 11:00am–1:30pm | Group Exercise: Timelines and next steps |
| 1:30pm–2:30pm | Lunch on your own |
| 2:30pm–3:30pm | Live Q&A with past DI Fellows |
| 4:00pm–5:00pm | Group Exercise: Creating a plan for peer support |
| 5:00pm–6:00pm | Sharing Session / Wrap Up |
Please note: This schedule is tentative and is subject to change
