Citizen Scholar will give the keynote presentation at AIB Expo Saturday May 10, 2008.
AIB Expo is an event organized by graduating seniors from the Art Institute of Boston, featuring a showcase of their work titled “Tag We’re It.”
Event Info
Saturday May 10, 2008
Midway Theatre
15 Channel Center Street
Boston, MA 02210 (map)
6pm
More info and directions at AIBexpo.com
I’ll be introducing Stefan Sagmiester at his talk “Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far” for AIGA Rhode Island on April 24, 2008.
Event Info
Providence, RI
RISD Auditorium
17 Canal Street at Market Square
7pm lecture, 6:30pm doors
More event details at AIGA RI.
Event promo design by Jarrett McPhee.
I’ve heard good things about Transit Antenna, “an experiment in mobile life.” Recently the traveling creative collective stopped in our former stomping ground: Orlando, FL.
While there, they spent time with Wheat Wurtzburger. Their Florida experience is recounted here along with an incredibly sincere and endearing depiction of our dear friend Wheat.
Student surveys are always tricky. Ultimately, everyone wants to help a student project along, but very often they’re longer or more cumbersome than most market research surveys and rarely offer an incentive for participation. Just as often, they come and go, with little evidence or news of their effectiveness or the application of the survey results. Thankfully, that’s not always the case.
A couple of months ago I was asked to respond to a survey about social responsibility in design and design education. Today, I saw the results of that survey.
Creative For A Cause is the thesis project of Syracuse University senior Heidi Cies. “A Resource for Visual Communication Educators” she calls it. Having identified a lack of standards or common ground on which design educators are incorporating social responsibility into curricula, Heidi set out to build a collection of online and offline resources, case studies, role models (thanks for including Citizen Scholar!) and more, targeted and promoted directly to educators.
Beyond creating a well-edited, nicely-structured site that tactfully asks for additional resources in the clever add-it-like-a-comment arrangement of submission forms, Heidi’s site has the potential to act as a common cross-discipline and cross-institution source of information for educators.
With enough traffic or interest, perhaps Heidi will pursue growing of her site into a network that will allow educators to exchange and update this information more freely. Maybe other existing networks will look to embrace and integrate her research. I look forward to seeing how it progresses.