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Moderator: Jan Conradi
Panelists: Roger Baer, Jillian Lindner and David Raymond

Assistant Professor, Rowen University

Learning to Teach/Teaching to Learn

If learning is an endless process, so is learning to teach. Earning academic and/or applied credentials as a design practitioner does not necessarily translate into being an effective teacher. Being experienced in the classroom doesn't mean there isn't potential for learning to be better. Panelists at varying stages in their careers as design educators will present ideas on building connections between new and experienced teachers and on helping people make enlightened choices about becoming a teacher. It describes successful models of mentoring at various levels (and within/across institutions) and discusses ways to support new design educators as they master issues of classroom management, pedagogy, and various processes of academic advancement.

Jan Conradi is currently teaching design, typography, and design history at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. With over 20 years experience as a design educator, Jan has developed an elective "Undergraduate Teaching Assistant" course that provides promising undergraduates with an introduction to the roles and responsibilities of teaching. She is the author of Unimark International: The Design of Business and the Business of Design.

Roger Baer is a Professor at Iowa State University, where he is also Chair of the Department of Art and Design, and Director of Graduate Education for the department. With thirty-plus years as an educator and administrator at graduate and undergraduate levels; he is also a NASAD program reviewer.

Jillian Lindner will begin her teaching career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Kent State University for Fall 2010. She is completing her MFA thesis and will graduate from University of Illinois-Chicago in May. She has been a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and is now Instructor of Record at UIC. She earned a BFA in Graphic Design from State University of New York at Fredonia.

David Raymond is a design graduate student at North Carolina State University. He earned an AA degree from Mohawk Valley Community Collegein Utica, New York, and a BFA in Graphic Design from State University of New York at Fredonia. He was working as an offset printer prior to returning to school, and after earning an MGD degree he will seek a position as a design educator.

Moderator: Jan Hadlaw
Panelists: Todd Barasanti and Monika Krupa

Assistant Professor, Design Department, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

New Paradigms for Design Pedagogy? Collaboration, Sustainability, Community, and the Education of the Citizen Designer

My presentation proposes ways in which the design curriculum can be adapted to incorporate opportunities for design students to investigate the social, political, and ethical issues at play in contemporary society. While design studies courses appear to be the most logical place to address these themes, I suggest that setting and activities of studio courses are ideal for such critical explorations. As a case in point, I draw on my experience designing and teaching "Design for Public Awareness'" a course which combines critical and participatory approaches to the research of social issues with collaborative community-based design projects. In addition to discussing the strategies and goals of the course, I outline the evolution of the course content and structure, and present and discuss examples of the collaborative design projects.

Dr. Jan Hadlaw is an assistant professor in the department of Design at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has a long-standing research interest in collaborative, cooperative, and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning. She is a member of the York University-TD Community Engagement Centre (CEC), a teaching, research, and resource centre dedicated to building and strengthening collaboration between local community and university stakeholders. She sits on the CEC's Research and Knowledge Exchange Working Group, and has helped develop the CEC's Integrated Professional Education Program, a pilot project that allows students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to participate in interdisciplinary/inter-professional placements and collaborations with community-led projects. In her capacity as the 2010-2011 Faculty Associate at the York University Centre for the Support of Teaching (CST), she is developing a pedagogical toolkit for educators who want to integrate community engagement and collaboration in the design of their courses.

Todd Barsanti has been operating his own studio, Elemeno Inc., in Toronto, for the past twelve years. He has also been teaching in the York/Sheridan Bachelor of Design program in Ontario, since 2002. Todd is currently a graduate student in the Masters of Environmental Studies program at York University where he is exploring ways in which sustainability issues can be better integrated into design education.

Monika Krupa is a graduate student at York University. She is currently completing her first year in the Master of Design Program at York University. Monika is working as a research assistant, with Professor Jan Hadlaw, on projects exploring design as a form of community engagement. She has previously worked with community-based groups including, a women's and children's shelter, Women's Community House, and a community-based after-school program, the Boys and Girls Club, both in London, Ontario. Her design practice and research interests are in communication design, with a focus on typography.