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Design educators and graduate students—join your colleagues in the 15th annual UCDA Design Education Summit. This national summit for design educators, chairs, and students, continues an ongoing community created specifically for graphic design educators with many opportunities for professional participation and development.

PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE BETWEEN JULY 6-31, 2020

Human-centered design (HCD) is a creative approach to problem-solving for human needs. It starts with the people you are designing for and includes them as active participants and subject-matter experts in the creative process. They become partners and co-creators in designing products, services, interactions, spaces, and experiences that meet their actual needs. In the classroom, HCD creates opportunities for experiential learning, innovation, and social impact as well as connections to, and collaborations with other disciplines.

The UCDA Design Education Summit: Human Centered will focus on how HCD is shaping the way we engage, educate, and prepare students for a career in design. We are seeking individual and collaborative projects that highlight successes, failures, best practices, theories, and new models/conventions of engaging HCD in the classroom.

This free online summit is open to UCDA members and non-members, design educators and practitioners, and students. Included in the summit are on-demand recordings of the panel discussions, workshops, and paper and poster presentations selected from abstracts submitted through the peer reviewed process, that you may view at your convenience. 

Neil Ward, MFA Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Department of Art and Design Drake University Special thanks: The Human Centered mark and branding designed by Katie Seglar, BA in Graphic Design and BAJMC in Advertising, Drake University. Expected graduation May 2021.

Michael Clayton, MFA Associate Professor School of Media and Design University of the Incarnate Word

Camila Afanador-Llach Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Florida Atlantic University  Jeanne Komp, MFA Chair and Professor, Graphic Design and Fine Arts Cabrini University Josh Miller, MFA Associate Professor, Communication Design Kutztown University  Kimberly Mitchell, MFA Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Bradley University Dave Pabellon, MFA Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Dominican University Doris Palmeros, MFA Associate Professor, Graphic Design University of the Incarnate Word Victoria Pickett, MFA Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Coastal Carolina University Melinda Posey, MFA Associate Professor of Art; Design and Photography Coordinator Union University

Brit Rowe, MFA Professor, Department of Art & Design Ohio Northern University Holly Tienken, MFA Assistant Professor, Communication Design Kutztown University RJ Thompson, MFA Adjunct Professor, Graphic and Interactive Design Point Park UniversityAssociate Director of Student Engagement, College of Business Administration University of Pittsburgh Ting Wang-Hedges, MFA Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Oklahoma State University  Bill Ward, MFA Instructor, Graphic Design The Art Institute of Dallas Liese Zahavi, MGD Assistant Professor of Design, Department of Art & Art History University of New Hampshire

Location: Free On-demand Event starting July 6

Date: July 31, 2020, midnight - July 31, 2020, 11:59 p.m.