Feb 26th 2015

CoA Presents at Conference on Beginning Design Students

First year students with raw materials for Tectonics of Junk project

Professor Leslie Johnson, Catherine Wetzel, Kathy Nagle and Paul Pettigrew presented at the 31st National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, February 26-28, at the University of Houston.

NCBDS is a national peer review scholarly gathering dedicated to the study and practice of beginning design education. Each year, NCBDS brings design educators together to discuss introductory design education. NCBDS2015 seeks to discuss the influences of contemporary media on design education. Professors from IIT will present images of student works and discuss student design assignments at the conference. IIT organized and hosted the 30'th NCBDS in 2014.

CoA NCBDS2015 presentation topics:

What? Wow!
Catherine Wetzel

Tectonics of Junk
Paul Pettigrew, Kathleen Nagle

The unBlank Slate
Leslie Johnson