AICAD Symposium 2024
Join ArtCenter College of Design and the larger Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) community for the AICAD Symposium, the annual gathering on teaching and learning in art and design, held at ArtCenter College of Design’s campus in Pasadena, CA on November 13th-15th, 2024.
This year, 2024, presents great challenges for creative and professional practice in ways that echo the massive moments of change from the past. How can we, as educators, prepare students and our own communities for this new world of teaching, learning and working? What traditions remain intact in this emerging landscape and where do we look for guidance and inspiration as we make our way forward?
This year’s gathering will explore four major threads of the current educational landscape:
- AI, Machine Learning and Emerging Technology
- New Learners and New Pathways
- Pedagogy and Practice
- Graduate Education and Research
Please join us as we gather to explore how we will teach for tomorrow (and re-design the future!)
Registration
AICAD Member Registration: $475
(you must register using your institutional email)
Non-Member Registration: $575
One-Day Registration: $175
Registration includes access to all conference sessions, keynote speakers, receptions, as well as breakfast and lunch during conference hours.
Schedule
Wednesday, November 13th
Pre-Symposium Activities
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Immersion Lab (Demo)
- 950 Shops (Tour & Demo)
- Archetype Press (HMCT) (Workshop)
- Mullen Mobility Center (Tour & Demo)
- ArtCenter Archives (Tour)
Registration
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Campus Tour
11:30 a.m.
Session Block 1
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Interdisciplinary Dialogue as Zine: A Publishing Workshop
Graduate Education
Gabrielle Jennings, Elise Co
The Diagram and Gesture. Methods for speed comprehension in teaching 2D design principles in beginning drawing
Pedagogy & Practice
Nate Page
Untangling Web Design Education: Reevaluating Core Principles
Pedagogy & Practice
Derek Wood
Toward an Evolving Ethical Paradigm in Transportation Design
Graduate Education
John Britton
Leveraging Generative AI to Enhance Conceptual Abilities and Communication in Design
Artificial Intelligence
Speaker to be added shortly
Tailoring Generative Design Education through AI and Collaborative Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Ivan Cruz
Using AI to Learn How to Learn
Artificial Intelligence
Carla Diana
Session Block 2
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Integrating Trauma Informed Values and Principles into an Arts Classroom Community
New Learners & New Pathways
Jessica Visconti, Laura Bustos Ortiz
The Pedagogy of Partnership: Building Meaningful Collaborations in Art + Design Education
Pedagogy & Practice
Joshua Halstead, Monica Schlaug, Jennifer May
Somatic Teaching: Engaging the Mind and Body for Deeper Learning
New Learners & New Pathways
Jennifer Moon, Lorinda Toledo
PLaiSHOP: Exploring GAI and Critical AI Literacy through Play
Artificial Intelligence
Adam Tindale, Emilie Brancato, Lori Riva
Adapting to Disruption: Collaborative Solutions for Contemporary Challenges in Art and Design Education
Pedagogy & Practice
Kari Weaver, Jean-Marie Venturini
Welcome Reception
5:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 14th
Coffee and Breakfast
7:30 a.m.
Campus Tours
8:00 a.m.
Session Block 3
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
Qurio: Quantum Thinking for Artists and Designers
Pedagogy & Practice
Shanna Dobson
Brave Conversations: A Framework for Navigating Complexity and Change in Art and Design Education
New Learners & New Pathways
Asher Ghaffar, Susan Ferguson
Reimagining Art and Design Education in the Age of AI: Insights from Innovative Educators
Artificial Intelligence
Lauren Cantor
Poetry & Translation: An Exercise in Creative Collaboration
New Learners & New Pathways
Polly Geller
Session Block 4
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The Duty of Care: What are IRBs/ERBs and why do AICAD schools need them?
Graduate Education
Tamara Peyton, Sean Donahue, Joanne Kersh
When a Designer Learns to Perform
Pedagogy & Practice
Ozzy Alvarez
Between Islands: Building Intergenerational Relationships Through Art and Movement
Pedagogy & Practice
Nancy Nowacek, Melissa Rands
"Mediated Identity": Empowering Underrepresented Personal Narrations in Design Class
Pedagogy & Practice
Speaker to be added shortly
New Pathways and New Learners: A Restorative Practice Approach to Building and Implementing a New Curriculum
New Learners & New Pathways
Kerri Steinberg, JoAnn Staten
What Pedagogy? What Practice?
New Learners & New Pathways
Michael Stone-Richards
Prompting Conversation: AI in the Information Literacy Classroom
Artificial Intelligence
David Pemberton, Shea'la Finch
AI Attitudes & Outlook: Librarian Perspectives
Artificial Intelligence
Micki Harrington, Tannaz Motevalli, Susan Kun
Materials as Point of Departure
Pedagogy & Practice
Stella Hernandez
Topic Lunches
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
- Learning & Teaching Resource Centers
- Sustainability - Bringing it to the Classroom
- Freewheeling AI
- Research Ethics & Review boards (IRBs)
- Faculty Dialogues by ArtCenter Faculty Council
Session Block 5
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
From Poetics to Practice: Developing an Anti-Bias Framework for SAIC's Low-Res MFA Program
Graduate Education
Matthew Roberts, Aliza Shvarts
Science Fiction, Social Justice, and Speculative Futures
Pedagogy & Practice
Bianca Nozaki-Nasser
The Intersection of Design Thinking and Educational Systems: Implementations for Student Success and Equity
Pedagogy & Practice
Armando Zuniga
Rediscovering discover mode with Gen Z
New Learners & New Pathways
Nita Sturiale, Martha Rettig, Adriana Katzew
Feminist Citation Rituals: Pro-active Academic Integrity in an Age of Gen AI
Artificial Intelligence
Michelle Miller
Creative Matter: Empowering Artists & Designers with Material Science
Pedagogy & Practice
Rita Blaik
Session Block 6
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
MFA GD: Blending Professional Practice and Research
Graduate Education
Stephanie Sabo, Roman Jaster
Nobody Can Know This Much: Adapting to Scale & Transforming Large Lecture Classes in Art & Design Education
New Learners & New Pathways
Jacqueline Turner, Jamie Hilder
Beyond Grades: Rethinking Evaluation in Art & Design Studios
Pedagogy & Practice
Natalie Salvador, TeaYoun Kim-Kassor, Moira Connelly
Critical Thinking and Making with AI: Strategies for Faculty and Student Engagement
Artificial Intelligence
Dimitris Papadopoulos, Griffin Smith
Empowering Artistic Communities: Generative AI and Creative Futures
Artificial Intelligence
Christine Meinders, Alex Jacob, Collette Williams Alleyne
Creativity Empowered or Destroyed? Issues with using agentive technologies to teach interaction design, HCI, and futurecasting
Artificial Intelligence
Julian Scaff
Exhibition and Reception
4:00 p.m
View the PST ART: Art and Science Collide exhibition, Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art. Curators will be on hand. An exhibition reception will be held at the adjacent Boardroom.
This multifaceted exhibition explores how contemporary art, design and culture respond to data’s impact on daily life. Drawing attention to prescient concepts regarding the selection, collection, and dissemination of data, the exhibition considers data visualization as a practice and as a model for deeper exploration.
Part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the exhibition features the work of more than 16 artists and designers, including Refik Anadol, Data to Discovery, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Giorgia Lupi and Ehren Shorday, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Semiconductor, Mika Tajima, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, and others.
Special Panel Discussion: Data in the Digital Age
4:45 p.m.
How do we make sense of big data? This conversation features artists and designers at the forefront of data visualization practice and education. Panelists include Santiago Lombeyda and Hillary Mushkin, both from the Data to Discovery initiative; and Jason Forrest and Jen Ray of Data Vandals, artists-in-residence in ArtCenter’s Designmatters social impact program for the Fall 2024 term. Moderated by Maggie Hendrie, dean of ArtCenter's Media and Technology and organized in conjunction with Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art and the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide.
Keynote Presentation by Safiya Noble
6:15 p.m.
The work of Safiya Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, brings a valuable critical lens to design and technology that raises important questions around issues which societies around the globe continue to grapple. As AI and algorithms continue working their way into the public imagination, Noble deepens our understanding of their potential for harm and enables us to advocate for better futures.
About Safiya Noble
Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She currently serves as Interim Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies for the campus.
Professor Noble is the author of the best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination.
For more details, please visit Dr. Noble’s website
Friday, November 15th
Coffee, Breakfast and Campus Tours
8:00 a.m.
Session Block 7
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
The Intersection of AI, Design, and Student Learning: Insights & Techniques
Graduate Education
Gerardo Herrera, Amanda MeiGerardo Herrera, Amanda Mei
From Studio to Society: Empowering Graduate Art Students with Research Practices
Graduate Education
Nicole Hall
Teaching creativity with empathy: A whole-person, well-person approach
Pedagogy & Practice
Wendee Lee, Michelle Constantine Hibbs
Success Coaching: A Holistic Approach to Academic Excellence and Personal Growth
New Learners & New Pathways
Lorinda Toledo, Shelby Lindsley
AI in Package & Product Innovation: Use Cases for the Application of AI Tools in Packing Design and Product Innovation
Artificial Intelligence
Javier Palomares, Gerardo Herrera
Critique Workshop for First-Year Students
New Learners & New Pathways
Lynn Palewicz, Robert Goodman
Session Block 8
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Reimagining Access and its Pedagogies
Graduate Education
Robert Dirig, Joshua Halstead, Elise Co
Caring Futures in Art and Design Education: Collaborative Workshop
Pedagogy & Practice
Michelle Miller, Lori Riva
Limber Learners: Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders
New Learners & New Pathways
Celeste Guarneri
Student-led AI Roundtable with Writing and Peer Coaches
Artificial Intelligence
Reuben Merringer, Amelia Yessayantz
Collaborative Teaching in the Context of Decolonizing Mythologies and Outcomes
New Learners & New Pathways
Kristina Lamour Sansone, Aaron Bruce, Tracy Shiffman
Lunch
12:00 p.m.
Special Sessions
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
- Entrepreneurship - The Power of Human Creativity
- Assessment in Art and Design
- Working with Institutional Data
- The Future of Extended Studies
- Analyzing our Inclusion Policies
- Special Event - Cheryl Miller Book Signing of "Here"
Conclusion
1:00 p.m.
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Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art
Part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide
Travel Information
Hotel Information
AICAD has secured a block of rooms at the Westin Pasadena at a rate of $199 per night. Located centrally in Pasadena’s Old Town, The Westin Pasadena is the only hotel in Pasadena with a pool on the rooftop, overlooking views to Historic Old Town, Historic City Hall, and the San Gabriel mountains.
Flying to Pasadena
If you are coming to the AICAD Symposium from out of state, the planning committee recommends arriving via the Hollywood Burbank Airport. From the airport, both the Westin and ArtCenter campus are just 16 miles (20 mins on average) by car/taxi/ride share.
Parking
If you are arriving by car, there is parking available both at the hotel ($22 per night) and nearby campus.
About AICAD
AICAD – the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design – is a non-profit consortium of the leading specialized arts and design schools in the US and Canada. Founded in 1991, the mission is to help strengthen the member colleges individually and collectively, and to inform the public about these colleges and universities and the value of studying the arts and design.
AICAD institutions educate more than 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students each year, plus many thousands more in summer and continuing education programs. Our students are drawn from all 50 US states and more than 60 countries. Over 70% of these students receive financial aid to support their education.