We will be having a meeting of the North American Chapter of the Design Society
immediately following the DTM committee meeting at approximate 7:15/7:30 on
Tuesday in Laguna A, 4th Floor.
New NAC Website!
https://northamericanchapter.designsociety.org<https://northamericanchapter.designsociety.org/>
* I believe NAC has an important role in helping to connect North
American design researchers to the Design Society.
* We were very ambitious when we first started the NAC and had some good
successes.
* I believe if we aim for some sustainable activities we can
reinvigorate the NAC and meet our goals (below is a quick brainstorm, email me
more and more will be generated during meetings)
Meeting Agenda: Quickly brainstorm sustainable activities and identify the most
promising activities.
NAC's Past Successes
* Successful design summer school May 2017- Thank you Josh Summers!
* Created an Industry-based SIG (Design Practice SIG)
* Created a constitution and held elections
* Email list of North American design researchers for disseminating
activities and information
* Having the NAC gives allows us to send representatives to the RIGI
meeting (Design Society planning meeting/board meeting). Gives us a stronger
voice in the Design Society
Current Organizing Committee (plz email if you're interested in joining)
* Kathryn Jablokow, USA (Pennsylvania State University)
* Shraddha Joshi, USA (James Madison University)
* Julie Linsey, USA (Georgia Institute of Technology)
* Filippo A. Salustri, Canada (Ryerson University)
* Ahmed Qureshi, Canada (University of Alberta)
Initial Brainstorm of Possible NAC activities that are easily sustainable and
valuable. Please send me more!
* Establish Junior Research Award
o Young Faculty Award
o PhD dissertation award
* Webinars/MOOCS/Online workshops
o Untenured faculty research summaries- helps tenure letter writers and
exposes research to the community
o Methods how tos- add to existing courses (record so they can be used in a
flipped classroom or as supplements)
o New Design Society Website should allow us to post these on it
* Mentoring for PhD students, Junior Faculty, etc.
* Web dissemination of methods for classes. Many of us have this on our
lab university websites already. Link it into the NAC Design Society page.
* Advertise design research related events that occur in North America.
Julie Linsey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
DTM Conference Chair
