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  1. Thursday
    • 3 - 5
      Registration
    • 5 - 6
      Hatch Show Print OPEN HOUSE
    • 7 - 9
      Reception on the McKissack Terrace at the Hilton overlooking the new Scherrmerhorn Symphony Center and the heart of Downtown Nashville.
    • 9 -
      Evening on your own. We’ll guide you to a starting point and one of several Honky Tonks all in walking distance.
  2. Friday
    • 7:30 - 8:30
      Breakfast and Registration
    • 8:30 - 10:00
      Main Stage Presentations
      • Audrey Bennett
      • Geoff Fried
      • Marcia Lausen
      • Christopher Vice
    • 10:15 - 11:15
      Breakout Sessions
      • Session 1.1 > Tenure and Promotion
        Roger Baer: You can’t get there from here without a few detours and bumps during the journey.
        Joseph Coates: Design Proxies
      • Session 1.2 > Tenure and Promotion
        John Nordyke: Evaluation of Teaching and the Tenure Process: Design’s Unique Challenges?
        Michael Gibson: How to Avoid Getting Tenure: A Discourse Regarding How Not to Plan and Enact Research During the Tenure Process as a Means to Assist Faculty.
      • Session 1.3 > Curation
        Frank Baseman: One Exhibition, Two Institutions, Three Curators
        Mark Biddle, Audra Buck, Ann McDonald: Tough Issues + Varied Perspectives + Multiple Locations + Extreme Optimism: The Process of Running a Multiple University Design Course Paul Young: Personal Visions / Commercial Illustrations
      • Session 1.4 > Interdisciplinary Spaces
        Cheryl Beckett: Site-Specific: The education of Citizen/Designers through Placemaking
        Paul Bruski: A Collaborative Exploration of Space Through Video
        Michael Arnold Mages: PhotoShop and Language Theory: Integrating trans-disciplinary approaches into the Design Studio
      • Session 1.5 > Expanding Design Processes
        Kate LaMere: Reaching Outside the Discipline: Graphic Design Research
        Bob Newman: Beyond Plasticity: Isms and Image
        Dave Richardson: Write, Dance, Design: Cross Disciplinary Case Studies in Design
    • 11:30 - 12:30
      Breakout Sessions
      • Session 2.1 > Making and Writing
        Dan Shafer: Thinking through Making
        Dennis Miller: The Life of a Sketchbook
        Rebecca Targ: The fold, the reader
      • Session 2.2 > Problem Based Learning
        Youngbok Hong: The problem based learning model in design education: Jury Experience Design
        Peter Chan: Teaching Branding through Packaging Design in an Undergraduate Course
        Hilary Williams: Everyday Evolutions
      • Session 2.3 > Integrating Digital Media
        Duran Todd: Holy Open Source Batman! Crime-fighting projects, tools and resources for Design Educators
        Michael Arnold Mages: Digital Media and the Education of the Graphic Designer
        Julie Baher: Using Research to Advance Design at Adobe
      • Session 2.4 > Social Responsibility
        Kate LaMere: The Green Side of Production
        Eric Benson: Ideas for Integrating Sustainability into the Graphic Design Pedagogy
      • Session 2.5 > Tools and Processes
        Richard Pratt: The Tools at Hand: Making Theory More Relevant to Graphic Design
        Michael Hersrud: Extending the Classroom: translating fieldwork into Creative Outcomes
    • 12:30 - 1:30
      Lunch Break
    • 1:30 - 2:30
      Breakout Sessions
      • Session 3.1 > Online Learning
        Al Wasco: Baby or bathwater? Deciding what to keep when moving a class online.
        Stacie Rohrbach, Suguru Ishizaki, Jeff Tzucker: Designing an Online Learning Environment Toward the development of a theoretical framework for the pedagogy of visual communication design
      • Session 3.2 > Interdisciplinary Curriculum
        Kirsten Hardie: The Practitioner as Teacher
        Sarah Lowe: Graduate Design Seminar: The Future of Interactivity
        Cherie Fister, John Baltrushunas, Jonathan Fahnestock: A Collaborative Inquiry in Graphic Design Education
      • Session 3.3 > Design and Theory
        Erica Nooney, Michael Arnold Mages: Designing Discourse: What Do We Mean When We Say “Design Theory”?
        Maribeth Kradel-Weitzel, EJ Herczyk: Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
        Rachel Powers: Thinking Innovation
      • Session 3.4 > E-Publication
        Kimberly Elam: Educator as Author: EBook, Disk Media, and Print-on-Demand Publishing
        Barbara Dewey: Online Publishing: A Research Librarians’ Perspective
      • Session 3.5 > Design History
        Samantha Lawrie: Reading, Writing, and Talking Design! An Alternative Approach to Teaching Graphic Design History
        Donna Sepien: Teaching Design History in an Innovative Manner
    • 2:45 - 3:45
      Panel Presentation
      • Audrey Bennett, Paul Nini: On the Shoulders of Giants: The Rise of Research in Graphic Design
        Panel: Matt Cooke, Ann McDonald and Elizabeth Throop
    • 4:00 - 5:30
      Helvetica Movie Screening
    • 6:00 - 9:00
      Reception on the McKissack Terrace at the Hilton
  3. Saturday
    • 8:30 - 10:00
      Adobe CSS Tutorial and Breakfast
    • 10:00 - 11:00
      Roundtables
    • 11:00 - 12:00
      Breakout Sessions
      • Session 4.1 > Portfolio Review
        Stephanie Nace: Instituting Portfolio Review, the One Man Show
        Julie Mader-Meersman: The Graphic Design Admittance Review: A Report on Success
      • Session 4.2 > Activism
        Elizabeth Resnick: Introducing the Notion of Responsible Activism in the Classroom
        Marcia Lausen: TBD
      • Session 4.3 > Ethics
        Barbara Martinson: For Goodness Sake: Ethics in Design Education
        Barbara Sudick: Ethics in Design Education
      • Session 4.4 > Design Center and Outreach
        Debra Satterfield: Enrichment and Empowerment: A Methodology for The Integration of Experience Design and Children’s Health Care
        Todd McFeely: Designathon
        Lisa Rosowsky: Doing good by printing well
      • Session 4.5 > A New Understanding
        Tyler Galloway: Creating the Strategic Generalist
        Jason Howell: To Whom IT may ConCern
    • 12:00 - 1:00
      Lunch Break
    • 1:00 - 2:30
      Breakout Sessions
      • Session 5.1 > Critique Methods
        Michael R. Gibson: Why It’s Important Not to “Like” Your Students’ Work: An Examination of Selected Methods for Facilitating Effective Critiques in Contemporary Design Classrooms
        Kirsten Hardie: Creative Learning
        Jane Venes: Getting Comfortable with Outcomes and Assessments
        Kenneth Fitzgerald: The Graphic Equalizer
      • Session 5.2 > Visualizing Graphic Systems
        Edwin Utermohler: Show me don't tell me; A Collaborative Lexicon of Keywords for Graphic Design
        Isabel Meirelles: Visualization of Information: Learning from Gestalt Principles
        Lee Vander Kooi: Type Systems / Type Structures
        Angela Norwood: Confronting overload: Mapping sensory data as primary research
      • Session 5.3 > Drawing
        Carol Faber, Troy Abel: Connecting Studios: Integrating traditional and Digital Drawing techniques within the Graphic Design Curricula
        Elizabeth Throop: Thinking Through Sketching
        Chris Myers: Seeing into the Life of Things
        Rukmini Ravikumar : The Creative Problem Solving Process in Graphic Design Classrooms
    • 2:25 - 3:15
      Main Stage Presentation
      • Steve Farrell
    • 3:20 - 3:50
      Main Stage: Panel Discussion
      • Moderator: Christopher Vice
        Panel: Cheryl Beckett, Steve Quinn, Liz Resnick, Robert Sedlack
    • 3:50 - 4:00
      Closing Remarks
    • 5:00 -
      Art Gallery Walk in Nashville