Las habilidades blandas (o soft skills) son cada vez más promovidas como competencias esenciales para el siglo XXI. Sin embargo, las instituciones educativas no priorizan su entrenamiento con enfoques basados en evidencia que transforman al Ser.
How can we collectively imagine non-propertied futures? Property has been a colonial tool to own and disconnect peoples from their lands, minds, and bodies
El diseño gráfico es una disciplina profesional con menos de cien años de desarrollo. En la lucha por que sea reconocida como una profesión, ha pasado por varias etapas, incluida el ser tratada como una disciplina menor por otras profesiones, particularmente aquellas relacionadas con perfiles científicos.
In our current political climate, we are surrounded by symbols of individuation: BLM flags, rainbow pins, Resist t-shirts, and MAGA hats. These icons are profound tools for resistance and belonging, but they are designed to signal who we are apart from the rest. This paper explores the value of developing a visual language that represents "the whole" while honoring the individual parts of a fractured system.
What does it mean to build a studio community when students don’t share a physical space? This session presents a fully asynchronous, remote foundations course that uses Figma as a unique studio environment — enabling dozens of students to work together in shared files that offer a sense of presence and collective making.
Gatekeeping is often built into structures of artistic opportunity. Even when there is a stated intention to expand access for people of color or low-income artists, opportunities such as artist residencies are often rendered inaccessible through requirements of nominations, fees, or portfolios, which all assume access to time, resources, industry connections and cultural capital.
En contextos contemporáneos marcados por la aceleración de la experiencia visual y la fragmentación de la atención, los estudiantes tienen cada vez más dificultades para sostener la atención visual en entornos visuales acelerados, lo que afecta directamente los procesos de observación en el estudio
Launched in 2024, the Feminist Design Archive is an open-source, community-generated digital archive that aims to document, preserve and illuminate the work of feminist designers around the globe. Anyone can submit work to the archive in any format, from any time period, including their own work or the work of others.
This workshop explores how dignity can be expressed in design through maximalism and minimalism, not as a fixed concept, but as something interpreted, constructed, and made tangible through form. Working in pairs, participants will create abstract typographic compositions that examine how visual decisions communicate presence, respect, and value.
