Today's design problems are more complex, more uncertain, and more demanding of knowledge and skills that surpass the traditional content of design education. In employment projections, professional assignments, and interest from interdisciplinary research teams we see a shift in the scale of design problems from discrete artifacts to systems, platforms, services, and communities. What trends are evidence of this change? How does change expand the responsibilities of practice? And what does this change mean for the education of designers?

About the speaker:

Meredith Davis is Professor Emerita of Graphic Design at NC State University, where she taught for 27 years and served as Department Head of Graphic Design, Director of Graduate Programs in Graphic Design, and Director of the interdisciplinary PhD in Design program. Meredith is a fellow and 2005 national medalist of AIGA and fellow of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.

She has received numerous teaching awards and is the recipient of more than 50 national and international design awards and exhibitions and her work has appeared in Graphis, ID Magazine, Print, Graphic Design USA, ACD 100, Creativity, Typography, and other professional publications. She is featured as a “trailblazer” in Women in Design.

Meredith is a former president of the American Center for Design and the founding president of the Graphic Design Education Association. She served on the national board of directors of the AIGA and led the organization’s Design Futures initiative to describe forces shaping the future of professional practice and design education. She currently serves on the executive committee of Future of Design Education.org, and initiative to rethink design education supported by the UC/San Diego DesignLab, IBM Global Design, the World Design Organization, and more than 600 professional and academic contributors.

She has authored numerous books and more than 100 articles and book chapters on design, design education, and design research. She is currently working on a book on the future of design education.

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