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"There's value in letting the student get stuck."

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"There's value in letting the student get stuck."

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Activities based practices. Easier to focus on the mechanisms. "For whom and under what circumstances?" Ex. cyberphysical system was assigned and map what the affordances are.

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The AIGA Design Teaching Resource is a peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections. Browse for inspiration. Sign up and starting posting projects.

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Design Teaching Resource - The AIGA Design Teaching Resource is a peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections.

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The AIGA Design Teaching Resource is a peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections. Browse for inspiration. Sign up and starting posting projects.

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Questioning the victims and beneficiaries of the artifacts that students create.

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What are the barriers in the classroom (with students) to talk about politics of power/tech? Are they ready to hear it?

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What are the barriers in the classroom (with students) to talk about politics of power/tech? Are they ready to hear it?

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How might we create a truly interdisciplinary model for design?

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How might we create a truly interdisciplinary model for design?

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it's blurry

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Request

Demand

Encourage

Discourage

Refuse

Allow

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Perception

Dexterity

Cultural + Institutional Legitimacy

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Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at University of Houston-Downtown

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Design Global Change is a collaborative group of students and emerging professionals working together to develop projects that bring positive change to communities around the world.

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Design Global Change is a collaborative group of students and emerging professionals working together to develop projects that bring positive change to communities around the world.

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Virginia Commonwealth University

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Seattle Pacific University

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Washington University in St. louis

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California College of the Arts
SF + Oakland

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Miami University, Oxford, OH

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What real and perceived aspects of an experience matter when people use design? What aspects are too easily ignored?
Interpreting Experience Design Scenes
Experience design education goes beyond making design. It involves developing the whole person-a designer who speaks the language of holistic experiences.
Developing Experience Designers
When people have agency in the creation of design, outcomes are more relevant and meaningful.
Advancing People-Driven Design Learning, Understanding, and Applying Research and Design for Meaningful Experiences

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What real and perceived aspects of an experience matter when people use design? What aspects are too easily ignored? Interpreting Experience Design Scenes Experience design education goes beyond making design. It involves developing the whole person-a designer who speaks the language of holistic experiences.

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Hello and welcome :-)
meaghand.com

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Kennesaw State University

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University of Arkansas

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Michigan State University

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Jenny Davis received her PhD in Sociology from Texas A&M University in 2012. Her work intersects technology studies and sociological social psychology. After 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University (Virginia, USA), she joined The School of Sociology at ANU in 2017.

Jenny is building a research program in collaboration with Dr. Tony Love to systematically study role-taking processes. The work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Sociological Association. In 2018, the project received an ANU Futures Scheme grant ($449,000) to design new measures and test interventions such as reading, writing, and virtual reality simulation. The laboratory at ANU is the sole site of experimental methods in Australian Sociology ( https://www.role-taking.com/).

Along with laboratory study, Jenny is interested in the real world implications of emergent technologies. She received an ARC DECRA grant in 2019 ($359,000) to study ethics in the Australian digital startup industry and she is part of the Humanizing Machine Intelligence (HMI) project at the ANU. HMI is an interdisciplinary endeavor to integrate human values with AI/ML technologies ( https://hmi.anu.edu.au/).

She co-edits the Cyborgology Blog (https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/), a theoretical and interdisciplinary publication that fuses social theory and technology.

Jenny is on Twitter @Jenny_L_Davis (https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis)

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Jenny Davis received her PhD in Sociology from Texas A&M University in 2012. Her work intersects technology studies and sociological social psychology. After 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University (Virginia, USA), she joined The School of Sociology at ANU in 2017.

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Jenny Davis is a sociologist at the Australian National University and author of How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things (MIT Press 2020). This site is a home-base for ongoing projects and research outputs. Please get in touch with media requests, speaking requests, collaboration opportunities, and to tell me about your own work!

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Jenny Davis is a sociologist at the Australian National University and author of How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things (MIT Press 2020). This site is a home-base for ongoing projects and research outputs. Please get in touch with media requests, speaking requests, collaboration opportunities, and to tell me about your own work!

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A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.

Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, The Design of Everyday Things, offers a useful analytical tool in technology studies-but, Jenny Davis argues in How Artifacts Afford, it is in need of a conceptual update. Davis provides just such an update, introducing the mechanisms and conditions framework, which offers both a vocabulary and necessary critical perspective for affordance analyses.

The mechanisms and conditions framework shifts the question from what objects afford to how objects afford, for whom, and under what circumstances. Davis shows that through this framework, analyses can account for the power and politics of technological artifacts. She situates the framework within a critical approach that views technology as materialized action. She explains how request, demand, encourage, discourage, refuse, and allow are mechanisms of affordance, and shows how these mechanisms take shape through variable conditions- perception, dexterity, and cultural and institutional legitimacy.

Putting the framework into action, Davis identifies existing methodological approaches that complement it, including critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA), app feature analysis, and adversarial design. In today's rapidly changing sociotechnical landscape, the stakes of affordance analyses are high. Davis's mechanisms and conditions framework offers a timely theoretical reboot, providing tools for the crucial tasks of both analysis and design.

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A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology.

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Department of Art, Art History, and Design

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Zach Kaiser is an artist, teacher, theorist, music producer, and DJ. He is currently Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State University.

In his work, which critically engages with his background as a designer working in the tech industry, he takes up the mantle of the artist-as-experimenter-questioning "the limits of preconstituted fields... along with the accepted criteria of judgment by which they would be held to account" (Gary Hall). He does so in order to critique Graphic Design's participation in the distribution of the sensible (Jacques Rancière)-the delimiting of sensory experience that determines how we participate as political subjects.

Graphic Design and User Experience Design guide us as we experience the world, allowing us to perceive some things while concealing others, and, therefore, shaping our modes of participation. In his creative work, Zach seeks to render the invisible visible, illuminating the politics of design in technology, as well as the ideas about the future embedded within our technologies themselves. He seek to contextualize, critique, and, maybe optimistically, modify the way that Design distributes the sensible, the way it shapes our understanding of ourselves as political subjects through our technologies, and how this circumscribes the way we imagine the future. To do so, he carves an intellectual space that utilizes a constellation of theories and methods from the fine arts, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Philosophy.

In 2006, Zach graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BS in Studio Art, and, in 2013, he earned his MFA from the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His graduate thesis advocated for a methodology of learning based on the process of DJing as a way to illuminate relationships in order to surface hidden ideologies and power structures in students' lives, which are increasingly mediated by complex computational systems.

Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan State, he co-founded Skeptic, a Boston-based research and design collective, and served as a visiting lecturer in various design programs in Boston.

Zach regularly exhibits and lectures in the US and internationally.

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Zach Kaiser Associate Professor, Graphic Design 27A Kresge Art CenterEast Lansing, MI 48824 517-884-5946kaiserza@msu.eduzacharykaiser.com Biography Zach Kaiser is an artist, teacher, theorist, music producer, and DJ. He is currently Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State...

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Hello. My name is Zach, and I am an artist, teacher, theorist, music producer, and DJ. I am currently Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State University.

In my work, which critically engages with my background as a designer working in the tech industry, I take up the mantle of the artist-as-experimenter[1]-questioning "the limits of preconstituted fields... along with the accepted criteria of judgment by which they would be held to account"[2]-in order to critique Graphic Design's participation in the distribution of the sensible[3]-the delimiting of sensory experience that determines how we participate as political subjects.

Graphic Design and User Experience Design guide us as we experience the world, allowing us to perceive some things while concealing others, and, therefore, shaping our modes of participation. In my creative work, I render the invisible visible, illuminating the politics of design in technology, as well as the ideas about the future embedded within our technologies themselves. I seek to contextualize, critique, and, maybe optimistically, modify the way that Design distributes the sensible, the way it shapes our understanding of ourselves as political subjects through our technologies, and how this circumscribes the way we imagine the future. To do so, I carve an intellectual space that utilizes a constellation of theories and methods from the fine arts, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Philosophy.

In 2006, I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BS in Studio Art, and, in 2013, I earned my MFA from the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. My graduate thesis advocated for a methodology of learning based on the process of DJing as a way to illuminate relationships in order to surface hidden ideologies and power structures in students' lives, which are increasingly mediated by complex computational systems.

Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan State, I co-founded Skeptic, a Boston-based research and design collective, and served as a visiting lecturer in various design programs in Boston.

I regularly exhibit and lecture in the US and internationally.

Please feel free to check out my research and creative practice as well as my work as an educator .

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Notes:
[1] Lyotard, Jean-François. 2003. "The tomb of the intellectual," in Jean-François Lyotard: Political Writings. London: UCL Press, 3.
[2] Hall, Gary. 2016. The Uberfication of the University. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 49.
[3] Rancière, Jacques. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. New York: Continuum.

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Hello. My name is Zach, and I am an artist, teacher, theorist, music producer, and DJ. I am currently Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture at Michigan State University. In my work, which critically engages with my background as a designer working in the tech industry, I take up the mantle of the artist-as-experimenter[1]-questioning "the limits of preconstituted fields...

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5 min > brief introduction to moderators + guests

15 min > Jenny Davis

10 min > Zach Kaiser

30 min > participants propose questions + engage in group discussion

NOTE: Session is being recorded!

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Friday, Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. EST >> Social Mixer with Liese Zahabi

Friday, Dec. 11 at 2 p.m. EST >> Workshop (Cookies + Collage) with Meaghan Dee and Becca Zimmerman

If you have ideas for future virtual events as we plan for the Spring semester, let us know! info@designeducators.aiga.org

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www.educators.aiga.org

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