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Laplacian Energy And Eccentricity Based Energy For Cross Monic Zero Divisor Graph Associated With Commutative Rings, Sarathy Raja, Ravi Sankar Jeyaraj Sep 2025

Laplacian Energy And Eccentricity Based Energy For Cross Monic Zero Divisor Graph Associated With Commutative Rings, Sarathy Raja, Ravi Sankar Jeyaraj

Baghdad Science Journal

For a commutative ring, a cross monic zero divisor graph is discussed, whose vertices are nonzero zero divisors of the commutative ring, then the two vertices x and y are adjacent if and only if xy = 0. Sum of absolute auxiliary eigenvalues of Laplacian matrix of a simple graph is known as Laplacian energy of a simple graph. Eccentricity sum matrix of a graph is a positive matrix, whose entries are sum of the eccentricities of two vertices and 0 for diagonals of the eccentricity sum matrix. Then the sum of absolute eigenvalues of eccentricity sum matrix is known …

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A Numerical Approach To Time-Space Fractional Stochastic Diffusion Equation, Archana Mourya, Kalyanrao Takale, Shrikisan Gaikwad Sep 2025

A Numerical Approach To Time-Space Fractional Stochastic Diffusion Equation, Archana Mourya, Kalyanrao Takale, Shrikisan Gaikwad

Baghdad Science Journal

The primary objective of this paper is to propose a Crank-Nicolson scheme tailored to analyze a time-space fractional stochastic diffusion equation subject to additive noise. Using the Caputo definition for time fractional derivatives and the shifted Grunwald-Letnikov definition for space fractional derivatives, a fractional order Crank-Nicolson finite difference scheme is devised to obtain a numerical solution. Considerable attention has been paid to examining the stability and convergence properties of this fractional order Crank-Nicolson method. To validate the effectiveness of the developed method, a comprehensive investigation using a test problem is conducted to assess its accuracy. The study harnesses the power …

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Proactive Siem-Based Framework For Cyberattack Monitoring And Classification, Zeyad Safaa Younus, Mafaz Alanezi Sep 2025

Proactive Siem-Based Framework For Cyberattack Monitoring And Classification, Zeyad Safaa Younus, Mafaz Alanezi

Baghdad Science Journal

Cybersecurity is a crucial aspect of modern information technology, encompassing safeguarding computer systems, network resources, and information from cyberattacks. Wazuh is an open-source security information and event management (SIEM) technology for real-time attack detection but faces challenges like log analysis complexity and alert overloading, which raises the number of false-positive alerts and affects accuracy. This paper presents three hierarchical models for real-time attack prediction using Wazuh to gather real-time dataset from various network endpoints and then preprocess them using a variety of tools. Subsequently, mutual-information, principal component analysis (PCA), and independent component analysis (ICA) are utilized for feature reduction and …

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A Heart Disease Prediction Model Applying Deep Learning And Combined Fuzzy-Mutual Information Based Feature Selection, Annwesha Banerjee Majumder, Somsubhra Gupta, Sourav Majumder, Dharmpal Singh, Sumit Das, Tanusree Saha Sep 2025

A Heart Disease Prediction Model Applying Deep Learning And Combined Fuzzy-Mutual Information Based Feature Selection, Annwesha Banerjee Majumder, Somsubhra Gupta, Sourav Majumder, Dharmpal Singh, Sumit Das, Tanusree Saha

Baghdad Science Journal

Despite remarkable advancements in medical technology, cardiovascular disease persists as a significant contributor to global mortality. This research addresses the imperative need for timely disease identification through the proposition of a heart disease prediction model, utilizing a merged 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The main aim of the research is to mitigate the inherent drawbacks of single-layer designs, with a particular emphasis on enhancing hierarchical feature extraction, broadening the model’s receptive fields, and facilitating more efficient non-linear transformations. The dataset has been collected from UCI data repository. The study methodology includes a new feature selection strategy that combines Mutual Information …

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Forecasting And Predictive Model Building For Heart Failure Data Using Machine Learning Techniques, K Sukanya, Khadar Babu Sk Sep 2025

Forecasting And Predictive Model Building For Heart Failure Data Using Machine Learning Techniques, K Sukanya, Khadar Babu Sk

Baghdad Science Journal

Heart failure is a critical medical condition with significant global morbidity and mortality rates. Early prediction of Heart Failure risk is paramount for timely intervention and improving patient outcomes. Leveraging the power of machine learning, this study conducts an in-depth examination of Heart Failure prediction using a comprehensive dataset. The dataset encompasses clinical, demographic and laboratory data of Heart Failure patients. A variety of machine learning techniques like logistic regression, decision tree and random forest are harnessed to construct predictive models for Heart Failure. The analysis integrates essential data preprocessing techniques like missing value imputation, feature scaling and feature selection …

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Optimizing Webrtc Video Conferencing Platform Assisted By Sdn Approach, Sanabil A. Mahmood, Naktal Moaid Edan, Monjikheralla Monjikheralla Sep 2025

Optimizing Webrtc Video Conferencing Platform Assisted By Sdn Approach, Sanabil A. Mahmood, Naktal Moaid Edan, Monjikheralla Monjikheralla

Baghdad Science Journal

To support the best path among several paths, the network must choose the path with the best path to support Quality of Service (QoS), especially for real-time interactive video applications, such as distance learning and video conferencing. As long as the chosen routing protocol path is fixed by network topologies such as integrated services (ISs), which may not provide the highest possible performance. In addition, software-defined networking (SDN) intelligence with web-based real-time communications (WebRTC) can determine the most efficient data packet routing, which reduces latency and improves real-time communications. The main objective of this paper is to build and implement …

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Assessing The Sustainable Circular Fashion Supply Chain As A Model For Achieving Economic Growth In The Global Market, Andrew P. Burnstine, Raouf Ghattas Sep 2025

Assessing The Sustainable Circular Fashion Supply Chain As A Model For Achieving Economic Growth In The Global Market, Andrew P. Burnstine, Raouf Ghattas

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

The fashion industry faces a critical sustainability crisis, contributing up to 10% of global carbon emissions and generating 92 million tons of textile waste annually. The study highlights the complex interplay of material flows, business models, power structures, and cultural mindsets, presenting a multi-scaled framework for advancing cleaner production and circularity in one of the world’s most resource-intensive sectors. This study proposes a transformative model for circular bioeconomy in fashion, integrating systems-change theory, degrowth economics, and emotional durability. Through case studies, including Patagonia, Eileen Fisher, and EU policy frameworks, the paper demonstrates how circular strategies can reduce waste, extend product …

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Adsl Deficiency Is A Secondary Mitochondrial Disease Affecting Organelle Homeostasis And Erk2/Akt Signaling In A Linear Genotype-Phenotype Relation, Matteo Bordi, Beatrice Testa, Claudia Compagnucci, Fiorella Colasuonno, Francesca Cipressa, Elisabetta Betterini, Andrea Mancini, Claudia Carsetti, Illari Salvatori, Caterina Ferraina, Ming Yang, Rossella De Cegli, Eugenio Del Prete, Chiara Veroni, Salvatore Rizza, Sofia Mauri, Elena Ziviani, Marina Macchiaiolo, Davide Vecchio, Filippo Maria Panfili, Teresa Rizza, Gerrit Weber, Rosalba Carrozzo, Alberto Ferri, Silvia Campello, Andrea Ballabio, Christian Frezza, Gianluca Cestra, Marco Tartaglia, Andrea Bartuli, Francesco Cecconi Sep 2025

Adsl Deficiency Is A Secondary Mitochondrial Disease Affecting Organelle Homeostasis And Erk2/Akt Signaling In A Linear Genotype-Phenotype Relation, Matteo Bordi, Beatrice Testa, Claudia Compagnucci, Fiorella Colasuonno, Francesca Cipressa, Elisabetta Betterini, Andrea Mancini, Claudia Carsetti, Illari Salvatori, Caterina Ferraina, Ming Yang, Rossella De Cegli, Eugenio Del Prete, Chiara Veroni, Salvatore Rizza, Sofia Mauri, Elena Ziviani, Marina Macchiaiolo, Davide Vecchio, Filippo Maria Panfili, Teresa Rizza, Gerrit Weber, Rosalba Carrozzo, Alberto Ferri, Silvia Campello, Andrea Ballabio, Christian Frezza, Gianluca Cestra, Marco Tartaglia, Andrea Bartuli, Francesco Cecconi

Duncan NRI Faculty and Staff Publications

Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency (ADSLd) is a rare autosomal recessive purine metabolism disorder with several clinical manifestations. While toxic substrate accumulation is a known hallmark, no additional molecular mechanisms have been established. Here, we show that ADSLd is associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, including increased fragmentation, impaired respiration, and reduced ATP production. The severity of mitochondrial impairment correlates with ADSLd pathology, especially in mitochondria-dependent tissues. We also identify defects in mitochondrial dynamics and transport linked to ERK2 and AKT suppression. Notably, overexpressing constitutively active ERK2 or supplementing purine intermediates partially rescues the mitochondrial phenotype. These findings suggest an alternative disease mechanism and …

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Sars-Cov-2 Nsp13 Interacts With Tead To Suppress Hippo-Yap Signaling, Fansen Meng, Jong Hwan Kim, Chang-Ru Tsai, Jeffrey D Steimle, Jun Wang, Yufeng Shi, Rich G Li, Bing Xie, Vaibhav Deshmukh, Shijie Liu, Xiao Li, James F Martin Sep 2025

Sars-Cov-2 Nsp13 Interacts With Tead To Suppress Hippo-Yap Signaling, Fansen Meng, Jong Hwan Kim, Chang-Ru Tsai, Jeffrey D Steimle, Jun Wang, Yufeng Shi, Rich G Li, Bing Xie, Vaibhav Deshmukh, Shijie Liu, Xiao Li, James F Martin

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The Hippo pathway controls organ development, homeostasis, and regeneration primarily by modulating YAP/TEAD-mediated gene expression. Although emerging studies report Hippo-YAP dysfunction after viral infection, it is largely unknown in the context of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Here, we analyzed RNA sequencing data from human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) and SARS-CoV-2-infected human lung samples, and observed a decrease in YAP target gene expression. In screening SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural proteins, we found that nonstructural protein 13 (NSP13), a conserved coronavirus helicase, inhibits YAP transcriptional activity independent of the upstream Hippo kinases LATS1/2. Consistently, introducing NSP13 into mouse cardiomyocytes suppresses …

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Atrial Fibroblast-Derived Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Promotes Atrial Macrophage Accumulation In Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation, Joshua A Keefe, Jose Alberto Navarro-Garcia, Shuai Zhao, Mihail G Chelu, Xander Ht Wehrens Sep 2025

Atrial Fibroblast-Derived Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Promotes Atrial Macrophage Accumulation In Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation, Joshua A Keefe, Jose Alberto Navarro-Garcia, Shuai Zhao, Mihail G Chelu, Xander Ht Wehrens

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

New study: Blocking MIF protein prevents irregular heartbeats after surgery by reducing harmful immune cell buildup in the atria.

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Acceptability Of Companion Dog Walking To Improve The Well-Being Of Intensive Care Unit Survivors, Lindsey Nelson Sep 2025

Acceptability Of Companion Dog Walking To Improve The Well-Being Of Intensive Care Unit Survivors, Lindsey Nelson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Intensive care unit (ICU) survivors are at risk for developing post intensive care syndrome (PICS), the physical, cognitive, psychological, and/or social conditions that persist after hospital discharge (Yuan et al., 2021). Current approaches aimed at addressing PICS tend to employ a singular focus on physical health; prevention and treatment strategies focused on the holistic needs of ICU survivors that extend beyond the confines of formal settings and into the community and home are needed (Geense et al., 2019).

A complementary intervention not previously explored in the ICU survivor population is companion dog walking. Companion dogs have been linked to improved …

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Community Engagement: It Is All About Relationships!, Jennifer June Anderson Sep 2025

Community Engagement: It Is All About Relationships!, Jennifer June Anderson

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The ability to generate sustainable, mutually beneficial, interprofessional teams becomes a critical skill for today’s emerging professionals. Interprofessional teams can be developed among community-university partners to bridge the intellectual resources of academe through a model of scaffolding interrelated paradigms. This work will provide a conceptual framework for enhancing community engagement through interprofessional collaborative practices for continuing education programs.

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Our Work Is Not Done: Advancing Democratic Engagement As Purpose And Product Of Higher Education, Christopher N. Poulos, Cathy Hamilton, Spoma Jovanovic, Kristin Moretto Sep 2025

Our Work Is Not Done: Advancing Democratic Engagement As Purpose And Product Of Higher Education, Christopher N. Poulos, Cathy Hamilton, Spoma Jovanovic, Kristin Moretto

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Infusing civic learning into higher education often requires negotiating among competing discourses. In this essay, we argue that our work to advance democratic engagement as the purpose and product of higher education depends on how well, how deeply, and how courageously we can engage with each other and these discourses to meet the many demands that the mandate for civic learning now shoulders.

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Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion, Jennifer Cutler Merritt, Loren Intolubbe-Chmil Sep 2025

Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion, Jennifer Cutler Merritt, Loren Intolubbe-Chmil

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

While many K-12 alternative education programs use innovative pedagogy and practice, the students who attend them often remain educationally marginalized. Simultaneously, in higher education, experiential learning courses grounded in the theory of engaged scholarship have frequently cast alternative K-12 students in roles subordinate to those of their college student “helpers.” This paper sets forth a preliminary analysis of a community-university positive youth development model as an asset-based approach promoting mutuality and transformation, in the spirit of Freire’s conscientização.

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Education Through Design For Social Empowerment, Lorenzo Imbesi, Luca D'Elia Sep 2025

Education Through Design For Social Empowerment, Lorenzo Imbesi, Luca D'Elia

Learn X Design Conference Series

The critical framework of education through Design-based practices emphasizes hands-on, experiential learning and its role in expanding STEAM education models. This approach leverages enabling technologies, such as digital fabrication tools, to provide transformative educational experiences that address societal challenges. This contribution explores how Design-based educational practices can serve as tools for social empowerment in marginalized communities, specifically examining the integration of STEAM methodologies with digital fabrication technologies to address educational poverty and foster social inclusion. The study discusses a case study focused on eight workshops in Ostia Ponente, where collaboration between universities, local authorities, and social organizations sought to combat …

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Outlining The Experience Of A Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements In Design Education, Monja Hirscher Sep 2025

Outlining The Experience Of A Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements In Design Education, Monja Hirscher

Learn X Design Conference Series

If design is understood in a posthumanist sense as a practice that creates encounters between human and non-human actors, it can be interesting to look at the encounters or entanglements rather than at the things that emerge, as these develop the practitioner in the form of relationships, experiences, and learnings. The text traces the author’s craft-based and process-oriented practice in candy making and observes the situated entanglements that arise in the process, which lead to a proposal of anchor points to reflect on such a practice in educational settings. The individually emerging connections to becoming, bodies, places, times, actors, and …

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The Impact Of Walking Without Digital Distractions On Design Creativity, Joao Ferreira Sep 2025

The Impact Of Walking Without Digital Distractions On Design Creativity, Joao Ferreira

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper aims to understand whether walking without digital distractions can enhance creativity during the ideation process in design education. The study involved ninety-seven third-year undergraduate design students in an experiment examining the relationship between solitude, walking, and ideation. Students were divided into two groups: an experimental group of forty-four students instructed to take walks without mobile phones during the ideation phase of their design process and a control group of fifty-three students who remained in the design studio. Both groups were tasked with generating design solutions for the same brief. Results showed that the experimental group produced ideas with …

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The Ongoing Evolution Of Design: New Life Forms, Manuela Maier-Hummel Sep 2025

The Ongoing Evolution Of Design: New Life Forms, Manuela Maier-Hummel

Learn X Design Conference Series

As our world is getting super-complex and human’s influence creates disastrous effects on our planet, it becomes vital to nurture design-specific, future-oriented knowledge and skills to establish a mediating environment. How can an interdisciplinary design curriculum support the evolution of future-oriented and sustainable ecologies encouraging creative collaboration inventing, rethinking, and recreating the world? This research explores a novel bachelor’s programme between multidisciplinary faculties of Computer Science and Design and Art to educate future information technology and design specialists together. It examines the qualities of Design interweaving with Computer Science merging into a next-level design culture. From a design researcher’s point …

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A Post-Anthropocentric Creative Mindset Through Design Education, Eva Monestier, Marita Canina Sep 2025

A Post-Anthropocentric Creative Mindset Through Design Education, Eva Monestier, Marita Canina

Learn X Design Conference Series

Planet Earth is experiencing profound and irreversible transformations caused by the ongoing climate crisis. Simultaneously, technological advancements often create a misleading belief that these complex issues can be solved through with simple tech-fixes. However, to address the root causes of unsustainability, a radical shift in mindset is necessary. It is essential to challenge anthropocentric Euromodern narratives based on binary categories (nature-culture, humans-nonhumans), which have historically perpetuated detachment from the environment. Instead, a more relational understanding of reality is needed - one that positions humans and nonhumans within a more-than-human web of life. This shift necessitates the development of new design …

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A Study On The Development Of An Educational Board Game For Cultural Heritage Using A Design Thinking Approach, Lung Chieh Chao, Ju-May Wen Sep 2025

A Study On The Development Of An Educational Board Game For Cultural Heritage Using A Design Thinking Approach, Lung Chieh Chao, Ju-May Wen

Learn X Design Conference Series

This study addresses the pressing challenge of preserving and effectively teaching Indigenous languages and cultures in the context of globalization. Centering on the Paiwan Indigenous culture in Qijia Village, Pingtung County, the research investigates how design thinking can be employed to develop an educational board game that responds to the language learning needs of children. The study adopts the five stages of design thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. Through interviews and observations, the needs of students and teachers are identified, and culturally relevant elements are incorporated into the game design to enhance both language acquisition and cultural awareness. …

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Designing Design Energetics, Bruce Tharp Sep 2025

Designing Design Energetics, Bruce Tharp

Learn X Design Conference Series

This letter is a call to those interested in the future of design and design education, and open to challenging the dominant materialist/physicalist paradigm. With advancements in quantum science, plasma physics, and wave mechanics, new understandings and models have arisen that offer professional and academic opportunities. Design, especially of physical, three-dimensional artifacts, sees objects as essentially vehicles for valuable subjective experience. What are the implications of acknowledging that all matter is actually congealed energy, and that all people are composed of, surrounded by, and affected by frequencies? How might designers better understand and address positive resonances and negative dissonances within …

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Reaffirming Learning – A Micro Examination Of Teaching Interventions And Their Connectedness, Noemi Sadowska, Tara Hanrahan Sep 2025

Reaffirming Learning – A Micro Examination Of Teaching Interventions And Their Connectedness, Noemi Sadowska, Tara Hanrahan

Learn X Design Conference Series

This case study provides a perspective on engaging postgraduate design students in activities exploring eco-social responsibility in relation to their creative practice. It zooms into the roles and learning impacts of a collaborative online space and series of online discussion sessions, which are situated within wider research trialling a system of teaching interventions that positively disrupt the curriculum, as a mechanism for awakening learning around responsible design. It offers insights and reflection on the teaching and learning system, mapping the interconnectivity of its components whilst synthesising discoveries regarding the roles they play in building connections, reaffirming learning and navigating uncertainty.

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Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Lessons In Interaction Design Courses, Joshua Pridemore, Molly Briggs, Abigail Chen, Laura Chiaramonte, Rachael Dietkus, Fengzhou Shao, Ben Tairy, Fan Xia, Yiqi Xiao, Amanda Yates Sep 2025

Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Lessons In Interaction Design Courses, Joshua Pridemore, Molly Briggs, Abigail Chen, Laura Chiaramonte, Rachael Dietkus, Fengzhou Shao, Ben Tairy, Fan Xia, Yiqi Xiao, Amanda Yates

Learn X Design Conference Series

This case study explores the transformative potential of cross-disciplinary approaches in teaching interaction design for social impact. By integrating insights from diverse fields such as trauma-informed design, interactive dance, media theory, and environmental storytelling, the course challenges students to think beyond traditional design practices. Students were encouraged to create projects that not only demonstrated technical and creative expertise but also engaged deeply with emotional, societal, and ethical dimensions of design. The course culminated in a public exhibition where students showcased interactive installations addressing real-world issues, including online safety, animal testing, environmental awareness, and technology addiction. Through a combination of theoretical …

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Multilingual Design, Isabel Meirelles, Diane Mikhael, Lesley-Ann Noel, Lesley-Ann Noel Sep 2025

Multilingual Design, Isabel Meirelles, Diane Mikhael, Lesley-Ann Noel, Lesley-Ann Noel

Learn X Design Conference Series

This conversation is an interview between three professors from a university located in a large cosmopolitan city in Canada. The interview to understand the motivation behind the similar approaches of two of the professors. During the conversation, the professors explore the complexity and opportunities for curricula innovation when teaching design in a very diverse context. They explore how themes of pluriversality, multiculturalism, identities, resilience, and how complicated intersectionality and the local context intertwine and have impacted their curricula, and how these themes can inform the design classes. The professors’ focus in the conversation is on pedagogical strategies, specifically, how they …

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The Fuzzy Edges Of Online Design Studios, Nicole Lotz, Derek Jones, Tina Deiml-Seibt Sep 2025

The Fuzzy Edges Of Online Design Studios, Nicole Lotz, Derek Jones, Tina Deiml-Seibt

Learn X Design Conference Series

This conversation paper draws upon the professional expertise of three designers of educational online studios. By reflecting on the design, development, and use of two online design studios, Incom and ODS, over the past two decades, the research explores the ‘fuzzy edges’ of studio environments. Studio carries rich peripheral information and ambient awareness, enabling studio users to ‘read the room’. This inherently fuzzy yet crucial process facilitates the formation of impressions that guide and sustain social engagement. While a precise definition of this fuzziness remains elusive, key characteristics can be identified: experiential, visible, performative, incomplete, negotiated, and opportunistic, which are …

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Unfolding Dialogue: Pedagogies Of Reciprocity And Community In Design, Charlotte Falk, Amanda Huynh Sep 2025

Unfolding Dialogue: Pedagogies Of Reciprocity And Community In Design, Charlotte Falk, Amanda Huynh

Learn X Design Conference Series

How can dialogue between educators reveal the shared labour and supports that sustain responsive design teaching? What role does dialogic exchange play in shaping and improving the relational work of design educators? In response to the calls for conversation and for teaching statements, this paper formalizes an ongoing dialogue between two emerging industrial design educators. Anchored by the theme Intertwinia: Principles and Methods, we explore shared commitments to adaptability, experimentation, and collaboration in design education. Building on exchanges that began when we first co-taught a course—then evolved through informal studio snapshots, late-night text threads, remote critiques, and cross-institutional, transcontinental conversations—this …

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Design Thinking Pedagogy In A Culture Of Information Immediacy, Ahu Yolac, Philip Plowright Sep 2025

Design Thinking Pedagogy In A Culture Of Information Immediacy, Ahu Yolac, Philip Plowright

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper investigates design thinking pedagogy within the context of information immediacy, analysing student work from the Design Principles studio, an interdisciplinary introductory course for first-year students enrolled in five professional design programs. The course emphasizes foundational design thinking skills, including divergent and convergent thinking, abstraction, coherence, cohesiveness, and the hierarchical organization of project information. Through qualitative analysis of student projects, we identify three distinct patterns of engagement: procedural application, emerging integration, and flexible, critical workflow. These patterns reveal how students navigate and internalize design thinking tactics in an era of abundant information and digital tools. We discuss the pedagogical …

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Connectedness In Design Learning Experience – A Qualitative Study Using Nvivo Analysis, Christy Gogu Sep 2025

Connectedness In Design Learning Experience – A Qualitative Study Using Nvivo Analysis, Christy Gogu

Learn X Design Conference Series

Design being a collaborative field, often requires designers to engage with people from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to bring a concept from sketch to product or service. Social connectedness has been reported to help in this collaboration within and between teams. A design learning environment that promotes perceived social connectedness can aid future designers to cultivate greater collaboration and empathy that is essential for a user-centred approach to designing. This research was conducted to study the role of social connectedness in learning experience from the design educators’, students’ as well as practicing designers’ perspectives. Qualitative data collection was done with 35 semi-structured …

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Intertwining Briefs: Reflecting On The Craft Of Design Studio Briefs, Ricardo Sosa, Enya Moore, Jody Watts, Nina Hansopaheluwakan, Rodrigo Hernandez Ramirez, Yaron Meron Sep 2025

Intertwining Briefs: Reflecting On The Craft Of Design Studio Briefs, Ricardo Sosa, Enya Moore, Jody Watts, Nina Hansopaheluwakan, Rodrigo Hernandez Ramirez, Yaron Meron

Learn X Design Conference Series

Design briefs are widely used in professional practice and design education, serving as key means for communication and learning. This paper explores the functions of design briefs in educational settings, drawing on the collective insights of experienced design educators. Through a series of case studies and collaborative reflections, the paper identifies five key themes: briefing as a relational process, the agency of learners, skills or practice, positionality and values, and briefs for scaffolding. The study also critically examines the potential of generative AI tools for effective brief development, demonstrating their applicability through a hands-on exercise. The findings underscore the need …

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Designing The World Precedes Designing The Word: The Paulo Freire Method Applied To Typography Education, Hiền L.D. Phan, Azadeh Jalali, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel Sep 2025

Designing The World Precedes Designing The Word: The Paulo Freire Method Applied To Typography Education, Hiền L.D. Phan, Azadeh Jalali, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper describes a critical pedagogy design experiment in typography education in a public university in the United States of America. Inspired by Paulo Freire’s claim that reading the world precedes reading the word, typography was reframed in this experiment as a designing of the world through designing the word. To design words this way, graphic design students need first to re-read the designs of their worlds, have something to say about that, and then critically embed their (designed) word into their (designed) world. This experiment builds upon the critical design pedagogy program set forth by the Design & Oppression …

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