Call for presentations on "Design and the Expanded Field" at the MACAA Art and Design Confrence in October 26–28. The deadline to submit abstracts (250 words) and a recent CV is Feb 29th via email to [log in to unmask]
Polymodal Sites: Graphic Design in the Expanded Field
Session Chair: Silas Munro, Miami University (Ohio)
The extended terrain of contemporary graphic design practice has its traditional basecamps in typography, image making, form giving, adept use of material craft, and system construction largely applied to the messages of paying clients. These nodes are mere footholds in a now very mature campaign by graphic design to land upon the banks of almost every other discipline under the sun. For at least the past two decades, the academy and profession of graphic design enjoy an ever-widening occupation into research, ethnography, social work, art practice, entrepreneurial endeavors, strategy, education, maker culture, innovation, product design, and social science to name, but a few key sites.
Our holdings and collaborations are so massive and multiple we have created new districts at our transdisciplinary fringes to deal with graphic design's evermore porous edges such as: user experience design, interaction design, social design, human centered design, critical design, speculative design, service design, and transition design.
So does this make graphic design an imperialist enterprise encroaching on other fields with intentions of a hostile takeover? Or perhaps graphic design is a series of rebel factions leading a nomadic, co-creative existence with the altruism to solve the world's (and other field's) wicked problems? Might we be a practice that has post-colonial problems? In an homage to Rosalind Krauss’ iconic use of the Klein group diagram and Greimas’ semiotic square, this panel asks for diverse proposals or provocations from the profession and academy that lay down nodes to map our contemporary field of graphic design as much by what it is as it is not
http://www.macaart.org/conference.html
Silas Munro
Assistant Professor
Department of Art
Graphic Design Faculty
Graduate Director, Experience Design
Faculty Affiliate, Interactive Media Studies
Miami University, Hiestand Hall
607 Maple St RM 201
Oxford, OH 45056, USA
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