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Designing a Theoretical Foundation for People-Centered Design Research
No full textPamela Napier, Indiana University, and Collabo Creative
Terri Wada, Indiana University, and Collabo Creative
This presentation will give an overview and update of where our team is currently with the progress of our AIGA Design Faculty Research Grant, which was awarded for the 2015-2017 cycle.
Our research project focuses mainly on Design Education in regards to teaching People-Centered Design in a collegiate or post-secondary educational context. The outcomes of this project are centered around providing relevant teaching tools along with an established curriculum structure, in order to enable more schools to teach People-Centered Design and Design Research. The tools and curriculum that have been developed thus far have been tested, evaluated and revised within our own curriculum at (insert institution), and are now ready to begin the “Alpha” testing in different educational contexts.
At the AIGA Design Conference in Las Vegas (October 2016), we presented a holistic overview of our participatory design research frameworks as they relate to Design Education and curriculum structure. We used this venue as an opportunity to recruit Design Educators to test these materials in their respective curricula, and had over 30 educators in our Pecha Kucha session express an interest in participating.
From January – May 2017, we will be enlisting Design Educator participants from at least 3 different institutions, and from May – July 2017 we will be engaged in remote planning/curriculum preparation with those selected Design Educators in order for them to implement the curriculum tools within their programs in the fall of 2017.
For the “Lightning Round Presentation,” we will present a brief overview of our teaching tools, announce revisions we have made to the curriculum structure based on initial internal testing, and discuss our overall project timeline with implementation dates for our Beta test platform to go live.
Pamela Napier is Cofounder, Design Strategist & VP of Operations at Collabo Creative, and Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design at Herron School of Art and Design—has been teaching across both graduate and undergraduate curricula for the past 7 years. Through both teaching and practice, Pamela has been invited to give presentations, facilitate workshops, and co-design events nationally and internationally, and has worked with an array of local, regional and national clients in the field of Design Research. She has been an AIGA member since 2002, and has been recently appointed as the AIGA Indy Chapter Education Director.
Terri Wada is Cofounder, Design Strategist & President of Collabo Creative, and Adjunct Faculty in the Visual Communication Design department at Herron School of Art and Design —is both a practitioner and educator of Design Thinking and Design Research with about a decade of experience in the field. As a part of her work with Collabo, she consults and carries out research projects for a diverse range of organizations including non-profits, start-ups and fortune 500 companies. Terri’s expertise in Design is evident in the numerous lectures and presentations she’s been invited to give nationally and abroad. Her most recent speaking endeavor includes holding a People-Centered Design workshop for the U.S. Army at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
This was a Lightning Round Session on June 2, 2017. 4:30–5:00pm (SCI 108)</p
Brainchild 2017
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CRISPR/CAS System, Mother Nature’s Gift for Genomic Engineering
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/trumbull_showcase/2017/Posters/2/thumbnail.jpgGenomic engineering is direct manipulation of an organism’s genome (DNA) to alter its characteristics. It enables scientists to • Study gene functions • Model human diseases • Correct mutations in diseased cells and tissues • Control infectious diseases • Increase crop production… The Challenge • Most multicellular organisms’ genomes are vast. For example, each human cell contains ~ 6 billion base- pairs of DNA! • It’s extremely time-consuming and expensive to generate precise and targeted modifications in complex genomes using conventional tools</p
Spoken Word Poetry
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1993, Debonne Vineyards\u27s Grape Crush
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/debonne_images/15/thumbnail.jpgTony Debevc, Sr. keeping a watchful eye on the crusher-destemmer machine process. The device shown serves two purposes; it separates the grapes from their stems and gently breaks open their skins. The grapes are tumbled from a massive bin into a large metal hopper and then they are funneled into a destemmer, which rotates to remove the stems while at the same time lets the berries fall into a separate machine where they are lightly crushed. Typically, the grapes are then transferred to containers to begin fermentation with the skins or they are moved directly into a press.</p
Go Figure! Exploring Figurative Language, Levels 5-8
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/facultybooks/103/thumbnail.jpgGet ready to make learning about figurative language fun for fifth- through eigth-grade students with this engaging resource. Students will explore idioms and proverbs through different content areas to develop skills in writing, word meanings, and using context clues. With a focus on figures of speech, including idioms and proverbs, this valuable resource supports the development of college and career readiness skills. Provided in this resource are 20 standards-based lessons divided into 5 units (1 unit for each of the following: science, social studies, mathematics, and additional themes such as animals or holidays) that include teacher and student resources.</p
Go Figure! Exploring Figurative Language, Levels 2-4
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/facultybooks/104/thumbnail.jpgIt\u27s time to make learning the English language fun for students in second through fourth grade using this engaging resource filled with lessons about figurative language. Students will explore idioms found across the content areas to develop skills in writing, word meanings, and using context clues. With a focus on figures of speech, including idioms and proverbs, this valuable resource supports the development of college and career readiness skills. Provided in this resource are 20 standards-based lessons divided into 5 units (1 unit for each of the following: science, social studies, mathematics, and an additional theme such as animals or holidays) that include teacher and student resources as well as digital downloads.</p
East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/facultybooks/110/thumbnail.jpgThis study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demonstrates the East-West exchange through discussions of the interactions by modernists such as Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and Kerouac. Finally, he argues that African American literature, represented by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and James Emanuel, is postmodern. Their works exhibit their concerted efforts to abolish marginality and extend referentiality, exemplifying the postmodern East-West crossroads of cultures. A fuller understanding of their work is gained by situating them within this cultural conversation. The writings of Wright, for example, take on their full significance only when they are read, not as part of a national literature, but as an index to an evolving literature of cultural exchanges.</p
Valley Vineyards, 2017
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Insight & Inspiration: The Seneca Falls Experience 2016
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