Panel SKI89
As Professions Change, How Can Curricula Keep Up?
Date Friday, Dec 7 Time – Room Potsdam I
This Panel - including an educator, an industry professional and a student - will explore the edge where curriculum meets business meets technology. This is the edge where entrepreneurs live. Join them to hear about how their activities are impacting the future of design education – and take part in a dialogue on the need for more multidisciplinary curricula. We promise you will leave with an understanding of what it means to be a designer today as well as with ideas for your learners to help them understand business strategies better and thus get a clearer picture of the value of what they can bring to the world of work once their formal education ends.
Claudia Roeschmann
Head of Communication Design, Texas State University, USA
Claudia runs the Communication Design program at the School of Art and Design at Texas State University and is the graduate advisor for the MFA program, a non-traditional low residency program that utilizes emerging technologies to support digitally engaged learning.
She brings 20+ years of international design experience and strategic entrepreneurial thinking and teaches graduate courses in typography, editorial and typeface design, as well as entrepreneurship. She gets excited about international and cross-disciplinary projects, and speaks at conferences about typography, design thinking and global learning.
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Alvaro Soto
Communication design, Texas State University, USA
Alvaro Soto is director of product management at Figure Eight, the essential human-in-the-loop AI platform for data science and machine learning teams. Before joining Figure Eight, Alvaro was the Design Principal for IBM Watson where he led the design for products such as Watson Assistant and Watson Studio.
Alvaro teaches entrepreneurship, futurism, and AI strategy at Texas State University. He speaks regularly about what it takes to build great AI products and the role of design in making AI possible for everyone.
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Teresa Wittenbach Wingfield
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Student at Texas State University, USA
Teresa explores the full range of the expanding design field as a graduate student in the MFA Communication Design program at Texas State University. Going beyond her nearly 30 years of book and publication work, she engages with web, mobile, experience, and entrepreneurship design. Using research and a human-centered approach, she embraces cross-disciplinary projects to put design to work to communicate and to create solutions. She teaches typography and introduction to design at the undergraduate level and is interested in curriculum development.