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Ryan Hitt Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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The Ryan Hitt Collection (800 C.E. - 1600 C.E.; 2 linear feet) is a collection of pottery shards, points, and plumbs found by the donor hunting for artifacts in fields and woods.

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Front Matter, Naya Sucha-Xaya, Kanya Wattanagun

Journal of Letters

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Uab's Squash, Racquetball Regulars Courting Spectators Smitten By World Games Action, Matt Windsor

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Beyond Sightseeing: How Can Tourism Affect Public/Global Health In Modern Society?, Jun Wen, Metin Kozak, Yangyang Jiang

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Tourism was historically regarded as a practical and business-oriented domain rather than as a research dis - cipline [1,2]. Ontologically, tourism was seen as a field in which to apply theory and as a means of fulfilling needs related to leisure, pleasure, and social health. Little effort has been made to uncover its more nuanced meanings. In 2006, John Tribe, a leading tourism scholar, published a commentary challenging the truth of tourism research and described a complex phenomenon in which the construct’s psychological, philosophi - cal, and social dimensions/values were not well understood [ 3]. He also suggested that much …

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Fuist Coaches Wb Games In Gender Diversity, Mj Soria

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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A Critical Look At The Importance Of Teaching National Identity In Algerian Efl Classrooms: Perceptions Of Public Middle And Secondary School Teachers نظرة فاحصة على أهمية تدريس الهوية الوطنية في صفوف اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية في الجزائر: تصورات معلمي المدارس المتوسطة والثانوية الحكومية, Miral Bassaid, Prof. Oqlah M. Smadi

Jordanian Educational Journal

Abstract: Over the past decades, studies investigating the concept of national identity within educational settings have grown increasingly prevalent and in demand. Ergo, the following study has set out to examine the perceptions of EFL teachers regarding the importance of incorporating national identity within newly developed English textbooks used in public middle and secondary schools in Algeria. The researchers elicited the views of 112 Algerian teachers during the second semester of the academic year 2017-2018 regarding the efficiency of home-grown textbooks in teaching national and local matters as well as their role in helping Algerian students foster their intercultural competence. …

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Transnational Legal Practice In A North American Common Market, Cheryl Lynn Virta

Florida Journal of International Law

This comment discusses the possibility of attorneys practicing transnational law, without the normal barriers, in a North American Common Market (NACM). In particular, this article discusses the possibility of Canada, Mexico and the United States liberalizing their rules on who may practice law within their borders upon the creation of a NACM. Additionally, this article explores problems of international practice which attorneys in the European Community (EC) encounter and suggests an alternative solution to the EC model for including legal services as part of a NACM.

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An Outward Sign Of An Inward Struggle: The Fight For Human Rights Of The Australian Aborigine, Sandra K. Haas

Florida Journal of International Law

This article examines the progress and setbacks these groups have experienced since 1970 by reviewing caselaw, Parliamentary legislation, and other determinative events affecting the human rights struggle of the aborigines. This article also attempts to predict where this movement is heading in the future.

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An Empirical Study Of The Influence Of Knowledge Sharing Behaviors And Organizational Culture On Staff Performance In University Libraries, Emmanuel Chidiadi Onwubiko

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Knowledge sharing has been shown to improve individual and organization performance and innovativeness as a result, has become increasingly important to organizations as most organizations are now considered to operate in a knowledge economy. This study therefore investigated knowledge sharing practice as well as organizational culture and their effect on performance of staff of university libraries. The study employed a survey design with a population sample of 79 library staff derived through purposive sampling techniques from two university libraries in Nigeria. The principle instrument used for data collection was a four-point Likert scale structured questionnaire validated by two experts in …

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The Role Of Wisdom In Navigating Social Media Paradoxes: Implications For Consumers, Firms, And Public Policy, Abigail B. Schneider, Sunaina Chugani, Tavleen Kaur, Jason Stornelli, Michael Luchs, Marat Bakpayev, Tessa Garcia-Collart, Bridget Leonard, Lydia Ottlewski, Laura Pricer

Marketing Faculty Publications

Social media has transformed the nature of communication and simultaneously given rise to paradoxes—irresolvable situations where contradictory elements co-exist. These paradoxes are pervasive, and they can jeopardize consumer welfare because they are difficult to navigate. In this conceptual paper, we argue that the principles of wisdom provide a unique and constructive lens through which to view the social media landscape with the aim of maximizing well-being. We illustrate three social media paradoxes at individual, interpersonal, and societal levels of analysis. We also translate wisdom theory into practical recommendations for consumers, marketers, and public policy makers to facilitate wiser use of …

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The Prevalence Of Glaucoma In The Jirel Ethnic Group Of Nepal, Sarah Miller, Nicholas B. Blackburn, Matthew Johnson, Sandra Laston, Janardan Subedi, Jac C. Charlesworth, John Blangero, Bradford Towne, Suman S. Thapa, Sarah Williams-Blangero

School of Medicine Publications

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide with individuals in Asia disproportionately affected. Using a cross-sectional study design as part of the Jiri Eye Study, we assessed the prevalence of glaucoma in the Jirel population of Nepal and provide new information on the occurrence of glaucoma in south central Asia. Over a four-year period, 2,042 members of the Jirel population, aged 18 years and older, underwent a detailed ocular examination. Glaucoma was diagnosed using the International Society of Geographical and Epidemiological Ophthalmology criteria. The mean (SD) age at exam was 42.3 (16.7) years and 54.1% of the …

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Creating Connections: Social Research Of, For, And With Design, Arlene Oak, Claire Nicholas

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This editorial for the theme track 'Creating connections: Social research of, for, and with design' outlines the underpinning concepts that contributed to a call for papers that would explore social research into the activities and/or outcomes of design practice. This editorial also briefly locates each of the six papers in relation to the track’s interests in how design and the social sciences may be effectively engaged with each other. By exploring some of the empirical details and modes of analysis through which research projects into design practice are undertaken, this set of papers will usefully inform design practitioners and social …

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Documenting New Design Ontologies, Tracy Manuel

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Ontological design — characterized by the understanding that what we design designs us — has been invoked as a necessary framing in redirecting the design discipline toward more pluralistic and sustainable ends. In this paper, I situate ongoing conversations about process documentation within emergent conversations surrounding ontological design, considering ways in which innovative documentation practices may support new ontological agendas. By considering process documentation as a hermeneutical, knowledge-making practice, I speculate ways that new, experimental modes of process documentation may afford designers — and design itself — new vantage points from which to (re)interpret design practice and the discipline writ …

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The Future Of Money As A Design Material, Chris Speed, Jonathan Rankin, Chris Elsden, John Vines

DRS Biennial Conference Series

For many years the primary representation of value has been money. However complex we perceive its material, social and symbolic characteristics, money is now undergoing significant change as it becomes data. This paper explores the implications for design as a series of technological and regulatory shifts are taking place that are changing the representation of money into data. The paper anticipates that it won’t be long before personal bank accounts will be better understood to be personal data stores, and monies held within them are connected to data-driven systems to ‘pay’ for services that we require. By charting the changes …

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Whose Place Is It? Enacted Territories In The Museum, Jennie Andersson Schaeffer, Ksenija Komazec, Elsa Vaara, Andreea Strineholm, Helena Tobiasson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

There is a growing trend to embrace the idea of public participation in the work of museums, from exhibition design to collections. To further develop participatory cultures in museums, these negotiations and emerging practices should be examined more closely. This paper explores a museum’s whole-hearted attempt to engage with the societal issue of climate change and work with a high degree of participation from civic society when staging a temporary exhibition. We investigate experiences in the process of building, measuring, separating and transgressing during the collaboration. Based on these explorations the paper presents three emerging and interconnected territories in the …

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Embedding Authentic Feedback Literacy In Design Students: A New Model For Peer Assessment, Michael Edward Parker, David Parkinson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design-based subjects consistently perform poorly in relation to assessment and feedback in measures such as the National Student Survey (UK), which prompts educators to consider more effective ways of engaging design students in the assessment and feedback process. There is a growing field of research supporting the view that exercises can be designed to deliver authentic experiences and enhance student assessment and feedback literacy. Through a literature review of this emerging field, this study establishes a framework for designing a peer-assessment and feedback exercise aimed specifically at developing authentic feedback literacy in design students, through emulating real-world experiences of the …

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Alternative Hedonisms And Earth Practices: Design And Degrowth In The Capitalocene, Rachel Harkness

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This design anthropology piece contributes to thinking on how to decouple design practices from neoliberal globalised capitalism, economic growth and consumerism. Drawing on the Marxist philosopher Kate Soper’s theorising around patterns of work and consumption in affluent countries (such as the UK) and her post-growth theory of the alternative hedonisms or pleasures of a less harried and acquisitive living, the paper argues that one way to achieve this decoupling could be to consider how more pleasure and greater well-being could be one of the ‘opportunities through reduction’, if you will. Illustration is provided by ethnography with natural builders working with …

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Designing Experiences For Iot Products: A Case Study Testing Existing Ux Frameworks, Zidong Lin, Ashley Hall, Bjorn Sommer

DRS Biennial Conference Series

IoT products are believed to be a new type of things that combine both material and immaterial resources. Their unique attributes can result in user experiences strongly differing from traditional products, imposing new design challenges. This study aims to 1) test whether existing UX frameworks are applicable to IoT products in design practices, 2) identify essential elements in experience design for IoT products, and 3) explore new associated experience design opportunities. We conducted a workshop including 25 design-engineering students testing two UX frameworks. The participants designed new experiences for a representative IoT product (i.e., smartwatch) in the workshop and presented …

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How Smart Clothing Can Mediate The Space Between Users And Their Environment, A Case Study Using Face Masks, Stijn Ossevoort, Miguel Bruns

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Augmenting clothes with sensors and actuators and turning them into smart clothes, offers new possibilities to mediate the space between users and their environment. The current COVID pandemic provides an ideal research opportunity, given that it challenges conventional norms of personal distance. We developed hairs with LEDs showing six types of dynamic behaviour as a research vehicle and mounted them onto face masks, commonly used during the pandemic. A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted with six subjects. The interview data from their experiences was analysed using the ‘framework of context’ from environmental psychology. We uncover three modes by which smart …

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Ai And The Conditions Of Design: Towards A New Set Of Design Ideals, Elisa Giaccardi, Chris Speed, Johan Redström, Somaya Ben Allouch, Irina Shklovski, Rachel Charlotte Smith

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The five papers in the DRS 2022 track “AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards A New Set of Design Ideals” offer radical lenses to change the narrative around AI and open pathways towards pluralist digital futures, signaling redirections for experimenting with more inclusive and imaginative design practices.

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A Place We Call Home: Curriculum For Land-Based Education, Adolfo Ruiz

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper describes initial research into the creation of curriculum that combines visual communication design with local Indigenous knowledge in the Tłı̨chǫ Dene region of subarctic Canada. This curriculum is intended for regional youth, and to be accredited by the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta. Situated outside dominant models of design education, the following sections illustrate the significant role that embodied knowledge and relationality can play in land-based pedagogy. As part of this discussion, the field of design is situated as an intermediary between an Indigenous community and a Western academic institution. Through a reflexive, narrative form …

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Engaging With Competing Demands In Systems Through Design: Fostering A Paradox Lens, Rike Neuhoff, Olivia Harre, Luca Simeone, Lea Holst Laursen, Lene Nielsen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper aims to foster a paradox lens on competing demands to ensure their productive engagement in design. Competing demands are inevitable and ubiquitous features of today’s systems. Thus, being subject to competing demands is a pervasive and inherent feature of designerly work. Drawing from organizational studies, we first outline four main streams of competing demands underlying today’s systems; related to time, cognition, social interactions, and focus. We demonstrate the importance of a purposeful conceptualization of competing demands by exemplifying how different conceptualizations can lead to different responses. We suggest employing a paradox lens on competing demands, which stresses that …

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Notions Of Designing Inclusively From Practitioner Perspectives, Maxim Lamirande, Katerina Alexiou, Rachael Luck

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Even though inclusion is a well-researched subject in design, the numerous ways to describe and understand it are unsettled. The theoretical landscape often leads into paradoxes about how to best practice inclusion in design development processes. Instead, this study probes present-day understandings of designing inclusively from the perspective of practitioners who adopt an inclusive approach in their practice. A review of existing literature helped formulate preliminary notions that guide discussions with practitioners recruited across different domains. Iterative analysis of the data from these interviews reveals some differences between the original theoretical constructs and how they are perceived and used in …

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Mediating The Needs Of Human And Natural Nonhuman Stakeholders: Towards A Design Methodological Framework, Emilija Veselova, Idil Gaziulusoy, Julia Lohmann

DRS Biennial Conference Series

More-than-human approaches to design are one of the ways in which the design community is rethinking itself in the face of sustainability challenges. These approaches most often decenter humans from being the sole focus, stakeholder, or actant in design processes. However, currently, there is a shortage of more-than-human methods and tools that would be applicable in day-to-day design practice. In this paper, we, as one of the academic partners in a transdisciplinary consortium project, report results from our preliminary work and early insights towards developing a design methodological framework that would support the mediation of human and nonhuman needs in …

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The Junk Playground As Agora: Designing Spaces To Re-Invigorate Democratic Participation, Mathias Poulsen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper, I suggest that there is an urgent need to design new spaces and possibilities for democratic participation. With inspiration from the tradition of “adventure playgrounds”, I argue that play design can contribute to expanding the participatory repertoire within deliberative democracy. Two design experi-ments are presented and discussed through the prism of self-determination the-ory and the findings point to a new understanding of democratic participation and the intrinsic, civic motivation that drives it. By shifting focus from the classi-cal deliberative ideals of rational discourse towards sensorial, open-ended explo-ration and creation, new democratic possibilities emerge. It is argued that …

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What If Data Protection Embraced Foresight And Speculative Design?, Arianna Rossi, Régis Chatellier, Stefano Leucci, Rossana Ducato, Estelle Hary

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Due to rapid technological advancements and the growing “datafication” of our societies, individuals’ privacy constitutes an increasingly explored speculative space for regulators, researchers, practitioners, designers and artists. This article reports two experiences at a national and an international data protection authority (i.e., the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés - CNIL - and the European Data Protection Supervisor - EDPS - respectively), where foresight methods and speculative design are employed in policy-making with the goal of anticipating technological trends, their implications for society and their impact on regulations, as well as the effects of existing and upcoming laws on …

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Designing New Money: Creative Transactions On Twitch, Chris Elsden, Chris Speed

DRS Biennial Conference Series

There is a wealth of contemporary scholarship pointing to ways in which money and payment media are being rapidly reconfigured through data and technology platforms, towards what Swartz terms ‘New Money’. In this article, we look at these developments through the lens of design research and ask: how might we approach the design of new money? And how can design research complement and extend critical sociological work on payment technologies, monetization and new cultural economies? To respond to these questions, we analyse a series of ‘creative transactions’ that take place on live-streaming platform Twitch. Twitch offers a rich example of …

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Who Designs For Policy?, Federico Vaz, Sofía Bosch Gomez

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This conversation asked participants to inquire about the skills and compe- tencies of those engaging in the practice of design for policy. We discussed the profes- sional background and training of people currently working as ‘policy designers’ and the knowledge and abilities these designers contribute when developing and imple- menting public policies, services, and governance. Likewise, we aimed to bring to- gether practitioners and researchers to debate the implications of creating specific dis- ciplinary profiles and how this can shape career paths within public administration. During the conversation, participants offered a set of mindsets, skills, and knowledge that they deemed …

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Prototyping Tensions: How To Talk To Your Colleagues About Ai, Sonja Rattay, Mireia Yurrita, Ignacio Garnham, Jacob T. Browne

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Current imaginaries of AI are pulled in opposing directions. On the utopian side, AI is being projected as the better half of humankind, evening out the fallibility of human bias and our inability to “know it all”. On the dystopian side, AI will make hu- mans either obsolete or turn humans into overly optimized cogs in a machine. The reality will most likely lie somewhere in between, in an uncomfortable grey zone of compromises, tradeoffs and negotiations of values and desired futures. In this conver- sation, we want to explore the tensions between contrasting imaginaries, which we present as four …

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The Desire To Excel In Design Education: Have We Pushed It Too Far?, Marie Van Den Bergh, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Rebecca Price

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In our work as design educators, we have been experimenting with and researching a range of initiatives that aim to improve design student wellbeing, learning outcomes and designer resilience at TU Delft and at the University of Technology Sydney. One aspect that has come up repeatedly in our work is this pressure to perform and its tension with learning and wellbeing. We used this DRS22 conversation to explore this topic more deeply.

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Ryan Hitt Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

University Archives Finding Aids

Front Matter, Naya Sucha-Xaya, Kanya Wattanagun

Journal of Letters

Uab's Squash, Racquetball Regulars Courting Spectators Smitten By World Games Action, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

Beyond Sightseeing: How Can Tourism Affect Public/Global Health In Modern Society?, Jun Wen, Metin Kozak, Yangyang Jiang

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Fuist Coaches Wb Games In Gender Diversity, Mj Soria

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

Jordanian Educational Journal

Transnational Legal Practice In A North American Common Market, Cheryl Lynn Virta

Florida Journal of International Law

An Outward Sign Of An Inward Struggle: The Fight For Human Rights Of The Australian Aborigine, Sandra K. Haas

Florida Journal of International Law

An Empirical Study Of The Influence Of Knowledge Sharing Behaviors And Organizational Culture On Staff Performance In University Libraries, Emmanuel Chidiadi Onwubiko

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Role Of Wisdom In Navigating Social Media Paradoxes: Implications For Consumers, Firms, And Public Policy, Abigail B. Schneider, Sunaina Chugani, Tavleen Kaur, Jason Stornelli, Michael Luchs, Marat Bakpayev, Tessa Garcia-Collart, Bridget Leonard, Lydia Ottlewski, Laura Pricer

Marketing Faculty Publications

The Prevalence Of Glaucoma In The Jirel Ethnic Group Of Nepal, Sarah Miller, Nicholas B. Blackburn, Matthew Johnson, Sandra Laston, Janardan Subedi, Jac C. Charlesworth, John Blangero, Bradford Towne, Suman S. Thapa, Sarah Williams-Blangero

School of Medicine Publications

Creating Connections: Social Research Of, For, And With Design, Arlene Oak, Claire Nicholas

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Documenting New Design Ontologies, Tracy Manuel

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The Future Of Money As A Design Material, Chris Speed, Jonathan Rankin, Chris Elsden, John Vines

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Whose Place Is It? Enacted Territories In The Museum, Jennie Andersson Schaeffer, Ksenija Komazec, Elsa Vaara, Andreea Strineholm, Helena Tobiasson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Embedding Authentic Feedback Literacy In Design Students: A New Model For Peer Assessment, Michael Edward Parker, David Parkinson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Alternative Hedonisms And Earth Practices: Design And Degrowth In The Capitalocene, Rachel Harkness

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Designing Experiences For Iot Products: A Case Study Testing Existing Ux Frameworks, Zidong Lin, Ashley Hall, Bjorn Sommer

DRS Biennial Conference Series

How Smart Clothing Can Mediate The Space Between Users And Their Environment, A Case Study Using Face Masks, Stijn Ossevoort, Miguel Bruns

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Ai And The Conditions Of Design: Towards A New Set Of Design Ideals, Elisa Giaccardi, Chris Speed, Johan Redström, Somaya Ben Allouch, Irina Shklovski, Rachel Charlotte Smith

DRS Biennial Conference Series

A Place We Call Home: Curriculum For Land-Based Education, Adolfo Ruiz

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Engaging With Competing Demands In Systems Through Design: Fostering A Paradox Lens, Rike Neuhoff, Olivia Harre, Luca Simeone, Lea Holst Laursen, Lene Nielsen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Notions Of Designing Inclusively From Practitioner Perspectives, Maxim Lamirande, Katerina Alexiou, Rachael Luck

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Mediating The Needs Of Human And Natural Nonhuman Stakeholders: Towards A Design Methodological Framework, Emilija Veselova, Idil Gaziulusoy, Julia Lohmann

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The Junk Playground As Agora: Designing Spaces To Re-Invigorate Democratic Participation, Mathias Poulsen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

What If Data Protection Embraced Foresight And Speculative Design?, Arianna Rossi, Régis Chatellier, Stefano Leucci, Rossana Ducato, Estelle Hary

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Designing New Money: Creative Transactions On Twitch, Chris Elsden, Chris Speed

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Who Designs For Policy?, Federico Vaz, Sofía Bosch Gomez

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Prototyping Tensions: How To Talk To Your Colleagues About Ai, Sonja Rattay, Mireia Yurrita, Ignacio Garnham, Jacob T. Browne

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The Desire To Excel In Design Education: Have We Pushed It Too Far?, Marie Van Den Bergh, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Rebecca Price

DRS Biennial Conference Series