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In this issue, we expand the Academia 360° column (introduced in Spring 2021) into a complete collection of essays that illustrate the complicated and multidimensional reality in which design academia resides. This includes addressing head-on the topics of equality, equity, diversity, wellness, and work culture in industrial design education, to name a few. In many ways, this is a continuing of the conversation started in the Winter 2020 issue, Education Interrupted, which attempted to broach such topics as keeping pace with professional practice and the shifting industrial design landscape, dismantling biased institutional norms of “good design,” and creating a system that provides equitable access to quality educational opportunities. At the end of the day, all of these have a direct impact on the quality of education a student receives and on the first impressions a young designer digests at the earliest stages of their career.
The guest editors of this issue aim to amplify voices in and around academia that have not been heard enough in the past. Aziza Cyamani, IDSA, and Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, IDSA, are two of IDSA’s most active educators in the field today. Both are tremendously passionate about their work, and IDSA is thankful to have their efforts reflected here in these pages as a sounding board for our community to reflect upon. We hope this serves as a call to action for both design educators and design practitioners that there is no time like the present to make the changes necessary to ensure industrial design is taught in an inclusive, interdisciplinary, and holistic way.
Guest contributors:
- Equality, Equity, and Work Culture in Industrial Design Education by Aziza Cyamani, IDSA and Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, IDSA
- The Layers of Diversity by Desi Lentz, S/IDSA
- The Happy Department by Mary Anne Beecher, PhD
- The Road to Becoming a Polymath Designer by Jung Joo Sohn, IDSA
- Mamageddon: A Story of COVID-19, Motherhood, and Academia by Betsy Barnhart, IDSA
- Back to the Modeling Board by Kohar Scott, IDSA
- Reflections on Academic Belonging: Feeling Valued as a Woman in Design Education by Carolina Gill, IDSA
Featured content:
- 2021 Scholarship Recipients
- 2021 Student Merit Award Winners & Finalists
- 2021 Academic Jury
- 2021 Education Symposium Event Recap – Breaking Down Barriers: by Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, IDSA
- The Changing Face of ID Education: A Roundtable with IDSA Educators
- Education Paper – Activism in Design: How to Integrate Elements of Social Movements into the Design Process by Danielle Chen, IDSA
- Education Paper – Enhancing Diversity through Design Education with M.O.L.D: Minorities’ Opportunity to
- Learn Design by Cameron White and Dr. EunSook Kwon, IDSA
- Education Paper – Exploring the Gender Stereotype Threat That Women Experience in Team-Based Educational Settings by Bryan Howell, IDSA, Cameron Unson, Judith Westwood, Becky Fuller, Asa Jackson, Rebekah Rawlings, and Michaela Hill
- Imagining New Possibilities for the Home by Yoojin Choi
In every issue:
- IDSA HQ by Chris Livaudais, IDSA
- Beautility by Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA
- A Final Thought by Judith Anderson, IDSA