Description: Within the realm of design (interiors and architecture), there is a prioritization of westernized ideals that dictate materiality, spatial organization, interaction and form. Often, the messiness of the domestic sphere is excluded from these conversations, in favor of modernization, cleanliness, and hard materials. By centering and prioritizing the body within our approach to interiority… Read More »Space for Many: Designing Soft, Pliable Public Spaces

A celebration and critique of technology in an age of chaos. The early 21st Century will be presented as a defining period in human cultural evolution, and the challenges faced unprecedented on a global scale. Climate change, and it’s likely consequences, food and water scarcity, mass migration, and uninhabitable environments, will be conceptualised as an… Read More »An Unfinished Manifesto for Arts Education in the Age of Chaos & Technology

Glitch art represents a critical intersection between artistic practice and academic inquiry, challenging established paradigms of digital aesthetics, authorship, and the concept of error. As a disruptive force within digital culture, glitch art offers unique opportunities to explore innovative methodologies in art production, media and design while questioning the cultural, social, and philosophical implications of… Read More »Error Aesthetics: Glitch Art as a Nexus of Creation and Theory

For nearly a decade, Families Learning Together (FLT) has explored the intersections of art, design, and creative computing through a community-based, intergenerational learning model. Anchored at the Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos and the San Marcos Public Library, FLT invites families, youth, elders, university students, and K-12 educators to engage in computational storymaking, dramatic… Read More »Families Learning Together: Expressive STEM Inquiry in San Marcos, TX

We bring a unique set of lived experiences to our practice as educators, artists, designers, and learners. When we use artificial intelligence tools to supplement or enhance our work through a humanistic lens, we use it as an extension of ourselves seeking to learn or create something new. In initial use of AI, we can… Read More »Interrogating AI: Positionality and identity of artificial intelligence

Join us to hear from a panel of art and design students will discuss their projects, experiences and perspectives on the ethics of Panelists include: Parsons School of Design: Camila Bravo del Corral, Muskan Niraj Gupta, Ritika Suryawanshi Penn State University: Kaydee Dambeck Texas State University: Harshini Kaparaju University of the Arts London: Zhongyuan Zhang… Read More »Student Panel on AI

Maryam Farhadi & Maria Mackinney | Learn about digital tools and practices which support cognitive abilities, memory retention, emotional regulation, and wellbeing.

RAY LC & Jeannine Vail and Chanjuan Chen | Explore using Generative AI in game design and its impact on teaching and learning within multidisciplinary design education

Uyen Nguyen & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo | Discuss transforming and co-designing digital asynchronous learning and promoting slowness in design education.