Learn X Design 2025: Statements of Pedagogy

Design, Technology, and Cities: Integrating design education into an undergraduate degree in Urban Technology

Matthew Wizinsky, University of Michigan
Bryan Boyer, University of Michigan

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Designing Curriculum with a Difference: The Nguzo Saba as Pedagogy

Kathy Moscou, OCAD University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Empowering Designers in the Digital Age

Erick Heredia, Escuela de Diseño. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Evaluating Community-Academic Partnerships in Design Projects

Cambey Mikush, Duke University
Cristina Leos, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jamie Nicole Elsner, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Liz Chen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

From Diamonds to Braids: New Metaphors for Teaching Transformative Design

Melanie Kahl, School of Visual Arts

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

From Interviews with Practitioners to Distributed Design Knowledge

Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Masaryk university
Roman Sellner Novotný, Masaryk University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Methodological tools for informed and critical alienation

Liene Jakobsone, Art Academy of Latvia

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mindful Design and Techno-Empathy. Toward a Better Tomorrow

dominika sobolewska, Wroclaw Academy of Art & Design

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Outlining the Experience of a Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements in Design Education

Monja Hirscher, University of Arts Linz

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

UG Design Education for Sustainability: Designing for Planet & for Life

Joanna Boehnert, Bath Spa University
Emma Dewberry, Open University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Unraveling the Threads: Designing a Multiverse of Learning Through Interdisciplinary Co-Creation in Design Education

Debayan Dhar, IIT Guwahati
Sugandha Gaur, OCAD University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM