UIC ID Faculty Present at IDSA International Conference

UIC Design professors Sung Jang, Stephen Melamed, and Kimberlee Wilkens delivered presentations at the International Conference of the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) in Atlanta. The 2017 Educational Symposium theme, Emergent Pedagogy, looks at the expanding role of design education as design practice expands beyond the field's traditional boundaries with multifaceted challenges and exposure to complex, wicked problems. 

Participating in a session entitiled, What's Trending in ID Education?, faculty members from Auburn University, Syracuse University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Michigan, and University of Oregon were invited to show how their programs foster inclusion and feature multi-faceted dimensions, to pave the way for the future of design education.