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November 13th-15th, 2024

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 Overview

Wednesday, November 13th

Symposium activities will be held at South Campus.

Pre-Symposium Activities

  • Immersion Lab (Demo)
  • 950 Shops (Tour & Demo)
  • Archetype Press (HMCT) (Workshop)
  • Mullen Mobility Center (Tour & Demo)
  • ArtCenter Archives (Tour)

Session Block 1

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

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

Thursday, November 14th

Symposium activities will be held at Hillside Campus.

Session Block 3

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

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.

Dr. Safiya U. Noble - Keynote Speaker - AICAD Symposium – ArtCenter College of Design - November 14, 2024

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

Symposium activities will be held at South Campus.

Session Block 7

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

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

Special Sessions

  • 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"

ArtCenter College of Design

Hillside Campus
1700 Lida St.
Pasadena, CA 91103
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South Campus
950 S. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105
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Questions? Contact us at ProDev@ArtCenter.edu

Gallery

Discover ArtCenter

Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art On View September 19, 2024 – Saturday, February 15, 2025 at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena (Image: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Storm Prototype: Cloud Prototype No. II and Cloud Prototype No.4, 2006.)
On View September 19, 2024 – February 15, 2025

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.