Warm greetings to all,
We are pleased to introduce the publication of the THIRD issue of Dialectic, a scholarly journal of thought leadership, education and practice in the discipline of visual communication design.
The entirety of the contents of Volume 2, Issue 01 (V2, I1) of Dialectic, the new, fully open access scholarly journal administrated by the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Design Educators’ Community, can be viewed in full at: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic. A list of the articles that have been published in Dialectic’s V2, I1 appear below, along with links that will allow readers to download these as PDFs.
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Each of the pieces that has been published in Dialectic V2, I1—their titles and author’s names appear below—may be read or viewed in their entireties online by navigating to the URL listed above. Each piece Dialectic publishes is also available for free download as a .pdf file.
The contents of past issues of Dialectic may be viewed by visiting https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/past-issues.
The Table of Contents for Dialectic’s third issue is located at:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic
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The content of Dialectic is organized in three sections: “Front Matter,” “The Feature Well,” and “Back Matter.”
The Front Matter section contains the following:
Improvisation in the Design Classroom<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.102?view=text;rgn=main>
by Nida Abdullah and Denise Gonzales Crisp
The Feature Well section contains the following:
Envisioning Futures of Design Education: An Exploratory Workshop with Design Educators<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.103?view=text;rgn=main>
(A long-form case study report)<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.103?view=text;rgn=main>
By Sapna Singh, Nicole Lotz, and Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders
Improving Science Students’ Data Visualizations: A STEAM-Based Approach<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.104?view=text;rgn=main>
(A research paper)<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.104?view=text;rgn=main>
By KJ Hepworth and Chelsea Canon
Employing Rhetorical Theory in Design Education Practice<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.105?view=text;rgn=main>
(A theoretical speculation)<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.105?view=text;rgn=main>
By Susanna Kelly Engbers
Portraits of Obama: Media, Fidelity, and the 44th President<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.106?view=text;rgn=main>
(A visual essay)<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.106?view=text;rgn=main>
By Kareem Collie
The Landscape of Community and Participatory Design in Puerto Rico: A Critical Examination of the Effects of Attempting to Facilitate “Listening to Their Voices,” (“Escuchando las Voces”) the Island’s First Exhibition of Community and Participatory Design
(A case study)<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.107?view=text;rgn=main>
By Maria De Mater O’Neill, DDP. and Omayra Rivera Crespo, Ph.D.
The Design Powers System: Cultivating Design Competencies in Collaborative Endeavors<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.108?view=text;rgn=main>
(A long-form case study report)<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.108?view=text;rgn=main>
By Denielle Emans and Basma Hamdy
Energetic Alpha: Co-Designing a Tool that Encourages Three- to Six-Year-Olds to Develop Handwriting Skills<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.109?view=text;rgn=main>
(A research paper)<https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.109?view=text;rgn=main>
By Aoife Mooney, Marianne Martens and Gretchen Rinnert
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Volume 2, Issue 2—our fourth issue to date—will be published in December of 2018 or January of 2019.
Thank you for your time and your consideration of this material.
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Michael R. Gibson
Professor, Communication Design
Graduate Programs Coordinator, Design Research and Interaction Design
The University of North Texas
College of Visual Arts and Design
Department of Design
Denton, Texas, USA
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