Posted 10.31.08 AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) Steering Committee is pleased to announce Maria Rogal of the University of Florida, as the first recipient of a $5,000 design research grant provided by AIGA. The AIGA Faculty Research Grant was established in 2008 to promote and aid design research. Click here for more information.

Chicago, March 7–8, 2009

Updated 10.31.08  Building from the past FutureHistory conferences, AIGA FH3 will explore current and future curricular challenges and innovations, and their relationship to traditional frameworks of design education. These issues and their potential impacts on graduate and undergraduate education will be presented and discussed by national and international main stage speakers and in breakout sessions led by participants whose proposals are selected from juried submissions. There will be three juried presentation tracks: Curriculum, MFA Thesis Projects, and Design Research. Click here for more information.

Updated 10.31.08  The Aspen Design Challenge calls for multidisciplinary teams of students to demonstrate the power of design thinking in addressing global problems and to raise awareness of the need for fresh water. AIGA sent a draft brief to faculty around the world, encouraging assignment of the Challenge this fall. Selected projects will be presented at the Aspen Institute and finalists will be provided three weeks to refine ideas in Copenhagen next summer. Finished projects will be presented during the World Summit on Climate Change in the fall of 2009. Application information can be found at www.aiga.org/aspen-design-challenge. Click here for more information.

The final AIGA Survey of Design Education Programs Results 2008 and the development of the strategy document for the searchable online database has been completed. 

This initiative is trying to identify the ethical issues encountered by design educators, and to develop a standardized code to help guide them through the myriad ethical dilemmas they encounter in their interactions with students, other educators, and academic institutions. will be posted on the DEC website in the coming weeks.