Design Educators Conference
Educators from around the world attend to discuss the future of design education
When: May 30th, 2024
Where: Vancouver Community College
Organized in collaboration with Vancouver Community College, our 2024 conference theme is Compassion, Creativity and Community.
This year's Design Educator Conference will address fostering student resilience and well-being, agility in design pedagogy and holistic, human-centred design education.
The conference takes place immediately after the RGD's DesignThinkers Conference at the Vancouver Playhouse on May 28 and 29th.
Speakers will include:
Ellen Lupton
Ellen is a designer, writer and educator. The all-new third edition of her best-selling book Thinking with Type launched in March 2024. Her other books include Design Is Storytelling, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she serves as Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions have included Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision.
Dr. Elizabeth "Dori" Tunstall
"Dori" is a distinguished design anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational design leader, consultant and coach. As the renowned author of "Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook," she is a path-breaker of progressive approaches that challenge conventional design paradigms that exclude and harm cultural communities. Formerly Dean of Design at OCAD University, and the first Black dean of a Faculty of Design anywhere, Dori's profound commitment to making an expansive impact beyond academia has led her to establish Dori Tunstall, Inc., a firm dedicated to decolonizing and diversifying institutional processes for companies and organizations through corporate education, executive coaching and strategic consulting.
Pricing (in Canadian dollars)
Members: $157.50Â (After May 3: $204.75)
Non-Members: $210 (After May 3: $262.50)
RGD Member Combo of Design Educators Conference & DesignThinkers Vancouver 2-day in-person pass: $498.75
Non-Member Combo of Design Educators Conference & DesignThinkers Vancouver 2-day in-person pass $698.25
If you have questions, e-mail the RGD's Programs Manager, Abdul Omar, at programs@rgd.ca.
