AIGA Design Educators Conference – Geographics: Design, Education, and the Transnational Terrain (Dec 2012, Honolulu)

Dates: 13-15 Dec 2012
Location: The East-West Center and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA
Website: http://aigageogfx.com/
Deadline for proposals: 15 Feb 2012

Many design educators in different parts of the world today are working in what may be called a transnational context. The boundaries that define the field of higher education have become increasingly fluid, and professors, students, programs, and curricula are moving back and forth between distant regions of the world as never before. The design projects, research, and institutions that result retain a unique cultural complexity because they promote meanings and values that often transcend the cultures and boundaries of the nations within which they originate.