response_ability
ethics and sustainability in design education
May 15-16, 2010 - Toledo, OH
“One of the tragedies of the design scene is that it always acts too late.” –Hans-Rudolf Lutz 1
response_ability, an AIGA Design Educators Conference, aims to foster an ongoing dialogue and debate about design ethics, sustainability and design education. How can we (should we?) create students who feel a responsibility to their world? How do we, as educators, instill the capacity for our students
to become thinking, ethical designers? Where do we find ourselves between these theories and practices? And how do we translate the ideas of AIGA’s The Living Principles in the classroom and beyond?
Through a series of group discussions, workshops, lectures, speakers and learning sessions, opportunities for open dialogue will be facilitated. Participants will be encouraged to share their challenges and achievements with others, uncover our educational shortcomings, identify our responsibilities, and offer pathways to solutions, all for the greater good of design and the global community.
There will be five juried tracks:
begin/end
What is our response_ability to fulfilling idea and execution?
old/new
What is our response_ability to upholding tradition and innovation?
big/small
What is our response_ability to serving society and community?
in/out
What is our response_ability to developing internal and external boundaries?
maximum/minimum
What is our response_ability to doing the most and the least?
Get involved now! Join the response_ability dialogue before the conference even happens. Then, join us at the Crowne Plaza of Toledo in May, 2010!
This conference is a project of AIGA, in partnership with Adobe Systems, and is proudly hosted by the AIGA Toledo chapter and Bowling Green State University, Division of Graphic Design.
1 Hans-Rudolf Lutz by Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin. Eye Magazine, vol. 6, no.23, Winter 1996. p. 101.
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