Kristen Coogan, Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Chair of Graduate Graphic Design, along with Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Mary Yang and the Boston University Graphic Design (BUGD) department, have partnered with Design Incubation (DI) to launch DI’s tenth-anniversary colloquium as part of BUGD Design Week. The 2024 Colloquium will showcase design research in lively, interactive sessions featuring practitioners, creators, educators, and students in a live, in-person event. These sessions will explore creative research, practice, and the adjacent fields that influence their work through four themes:
Design Incubation is a national platform for educators and practitioners of Graphic Design to discuss design research and practice. Design Incubation aims to foster a community where designers can evaluate creative work through the lens of scholarly activity and academic review.
Welcome to Boston University, School of Visual Arts, Graphic Design
The Design + Translation panel aims to recenter perspectives and prioritize inclusivity by representing a wider range of voices that build a design community.
Typography as Racialization: Euro-American Craft and Asian Labor
Jonathan Hanahan
Associate Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
Accessibility and Creative Authorship in Design Theory Through Multimodal Learning and Metacognitive Reflection
Molly Haig
Adjunct Professor
University of Europe for the Applied Sciences
Berlin, Germany Dr. Till Julian Huss
Professor
University of Europe for the Applied Sciences
Pedagogical Workshops and
Collaboration
Chen Luo
Adjunct Professor
Maryland Institute College of Art
The Colloquium will take place at Boston University’s School of Visual Arts, located at 808 Commonwealth Avenue 4th Floor in Brookline, Massachusetts. Boston University occupies the traditional and ancestral lands of the Wampanoag and the Massachusett people.
Public Transit
For those arriving by public transportation, the closest MBTA stop is Armory Street on the Green line. It’s about an 8-minute walk from 808 Commonwealth. This is an accessible stop with a portable boarding lift.
Parking
On Thursday: Guests can park in the Essex Street Garage & Lot at 148 Essex Street, Brookline, MA. The garage and lot are open to guests after 3pm for $12 and can be paid by credit card when you exit. See map here. This parking lot is adjacent to 808 Commonwealth Ave. There are elevators from the lots to the ground floor of the building where the colloquium will be held. There is also metered parking on Commonwealth Ave outside of the building. On the side of the building is 2 hour metered parking and across the street is 4 hour metered parking. On Friday: Guests can park in the Agganis Arena Garage at 925 Commonwealth Ave for $25 for the day. It’s about a 10 min walk to 808 Commonwealth Ave. See map here.
BU Graphic Design Instagram / Website Design Incubation Instagram / Website Website and identity designed by the BFA and MFA students in the Brand Identity class at BU: Owen Casey, Pink Chotikakovit, Jason Dong, Ghazaleh Farrokhi, Riley Fitzpatrick, Lilia Geguchadze, Lauren Greenblatt, Wenbin Huang, Shi Shi Jacobs, Caitlin Lu, Soph Russo, Xinran Wang, Jingyi Zhang, Chichi Zhao. Instructor: Mary Yang. TA: Brady George.