AIGA Design Educators Community
The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) seeks to enhance the abilities of design educators and educational institutions to prepare future designers for excellence in design practice, design theory and design writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels while supporting the fundamental mission of AIGA.
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Beyond the Bauhaus: The Gee’s Bend Quilters
Since the early part of the 1900s, the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama have narrated and re-written their lives through the creation of quilts. Gee’s Bend (also known as Boykin) is a small, rural, predominantly African-American community in Wilcox County, Alabama. The town, which sits enclosed on three sides by the Alabama River, takes its name from a plantation owner named Joseph Gee, who settled the town and built his cotton plantation on the land in the early 1800s. With him, he brought a group of eighteen enslaved African Americans. Today, almost all of Gee’s Bend residents are descendants of formerly enslaved people from Gee’s plantation.
SHIFT 2020 Virtual Summit Call for Proceedings + Living Archives
Rather than a static collection of abstracts and papers written by a handful of people, we want to capture and gather together content shared and discussed during the summit (including the pre-recorded panel discussions, the live roundtables and panel conversations, and especially from the Slack community) and make it accessible and editable by our attendees and community.
Design Teaching Resource
The AIGA Design Teaching Resource is a peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections.
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Dialogue
The ongoing series of fully open-access proceedings of the conferences and national symposia of the AIGA Design Educators Community.
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Value Design Education Pledge
A set of working principles that serve as a foundation for enacting long-term, systemic change in design education and pedagogy.
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Graduate Student Posters
Seven posters that address the topic of Bridging Digital and Physical Experiences, which is one of the trends defined in AIGA’s Design Futures.
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Dialectic Journal
A scholarly journal of thought leadership, education, and practice in the discipline of visual communication design.
DEC Steering Committee
David Hisaya Asari
Kareem Collie
Victor Davila
Co-Chair
Meaghan A. Dee
Gaby Hernandez
Lee-Sean Huang
Co-Chair
Meena Khalili
Ali Place
Alberto Rigau
Kaleena Sales
Rebecca Tegtmeyer
Brad Tober
Natalie Tyree
Kelly Walters
Liese Zahabi
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