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In this exercise in adversarial futures thinking, participants will examine the capabilities of AI agents to act as both student and teacher, and design their own “teacher personas” in order to reflect on what makes their work uniquely human.

Responsible Intelligence: AI, Ethics, and Caribbean Cultural Appropriation in the Age of AI About this session  La inteligencia artificial está llegando al Caribe no como una abstracción teórica, sino como una herramienta con consecuencias reales: la posibilidad de acelerar investigación, amplificar voces locales y resguardar patrimonio cultural, pero también el riesgo de reproducir sesgos, apropiar… Read More »Inteligencia Responsable: IA, Ética y Apropiación Cultural Caribeña en la Era de la IA

Esta ponencia propone la enseñanza de tecnologías textiles andino-mapuche como gestos pedagógicos menores que resisten la crisis climática y el extractivismo colonial del fast fashion.

La moda contemporánea se desarrolla dentro en un sistema global históricamente articulado en torno a centros culturales específicos, principalmente en Europa y Norteamérica.

As design increasingly operates across physical and digital systems, higher education must evolve beyond siloed disciplinary models. In response to evolving industry demands, this panel brings together faculty from three departments and two colleges to examine the past, present, and future of cross-disciplinary design education.

This session shares the development of Art, Design & Artificial Intelligence: An Educator’s Toolkit, across institutional projects created by colleagues at three UK Universities.

Theatre is one of the oldest technologies humans have for practicing attention, presence, and connection. Yet many people, particularly outside the arts, have had little or no access to it, despite a clear need for the capacities it cultivates.

This contribution presents an international, hybrid teaching project co-designed and co-taught by faculty from universities in Germany and the United States.

La movilidad global no es un fenómeno nuevo, pero diseñar para una audiencia internacional desde un contexto local sigue siendo un reto complejo y en constante evolución.

Este estudio de caso analiza el proceso pedagógico de una adolescente en el espectro autista durante la creación de un cómic original.

La presente ponencia presenta un modelo metodológico de diseño participativo orientado a la formación en diseño en escenarios educativos.

The Living Darkroom es una investigación artística que explora cómo microorganismos, cultivos orgánicos y materia biológica participan activamente como agentes creativos en la generación de imágenes fotográficas.

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.