3/1/14: UCDA Design Education Summit

National UCDA Design Education Summit
May 19-20, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel, Madison Wisconsin

 

Design educators and graduate students—you are invited and encouraged to participate in the ninth annual National UCDA Design Education Summit May 19-20, 2014. 

 

This national conference for design educators, chairs, and students will include general session speakers, panel discussions, and paper and poster presentations selected from abstracts submitted through a peer-reviewed process. Proposals on any design-related topics are welcome. 

 

This conference is open to UCDA members and non-members, design educators and practitioners, and students. More details and registration information will be posted soon.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The National UCDA Design Education Summit is seeking proposals from design educators or practitioners that address issues in design education and research for 30 minute presentations as breakout sessions to be held during the conference. There may be more than one presenter during each session. 

 

Accepted papers will also be included online in the conference proceedings. 

 

Paper/Presentation Abstract Submission Procedure

• Paper/Presentation abstracts (a maximum of 300 words) must be submitted in PDF format only.
• Your name and name of institution (if any) should NOT appear on the abstract as we wish for the judging to be blind.
• Include your status (grad student, tenure track faculty, tenured faculty, visiting faculty, practicing designer, other) on the PDF file.
• Title your PDF file as an abbreviation of your paper title and use the file extension .pdf (example: titlename.pdf).
• Include in your email your name, institution, institution type (2-year, 4-year, public, private, art school, etc.)
• Submission Deadline: March 1.
• Notification of acceptance will be made via email by March 28.
• If selected, the complete paper will be requested for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
  
  Send Paper/Presentation Abstract directly to the UCDA Home Office at: abstract@ucda.com