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2007 Savannah College of Art and Design, Translations
2008 Georgia Institute of Technology, We Have Never Been Pre-Disciplinary
2009 Louisiana State University, But Also, We Are a Discipline
2010 UNC Charlotte, Made: Design Education & The Art of Making
2011 University of Nebraska, Beginning Of/In the End: PART 1
2012 Pennsylvania State, Beginning Of/In the End - Sustainable (re)Start: PART 2
Conference Chair:
Jodi LaCoe
jll154@psu.edu
Conference Website:
http://www.beginningdesign2012.org
Conference Dates:
March 29-31, 2012 Conference
Statement of Themes:
If we believe that we constitute a polity of responsible citizens, where sustainability encompasses environmental, cultural, economic, and philosophical considerations, then what and how we teach is paramount to the vitality of global well-being. As academics and professionals, we recognize that the basic skills introduced to students in their first year will constitute the foundation on which all subsequent learning and design skills are overlaid, and from which all other techniques and decisions are constructed in subsequent years. These skills become firmly embedded in the students’ very idea of imagining and making, and comprise the fundamental tools by which they subsequently foster and develop their own personal design philosophy. Each new layer of skills produces new ways of thinking, considering, and imagining, resulting in a re-ordering of what was already there; new growth nourishing and sustaining earlier growth and vise-versa. In the process, all is re-imagined, re-formulated, re-ordered.
2013 Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Department of Architecture
Conference Chairs:
Eric Oskey
eoskey@temple.edu
Dennis Playdon
dplaydon@temple.edu
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