About DEL

The Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL) conference has been running annually since 2005, supported by an international partnership of art and design institutions of higher education. Currently the DEL chairs and organizing committee are from Parsons-The New School, Penn State, Texas State University and University of the Arts London.

DEL is an international conference exploring and evolving digitally engaged teaching and learning in art and design Higher Education. By ‘digitally engaged’, we are referring to practices that are actively with, about or located in digital tools and spaces. DEL is a place for creative and critical making, where you will find objects, artefacts, experimental technologies and performances alongside presentations and workshops.

DEL engages important intersections to art and design education as the digital pervades almost all aspects of our practice and increasingly influences the creative, social and political aspects of teaching and learning. DEL increases the confidence of art and design educators to incorporate digital technologies and network communications into the curriculum in Innovative ways that impact the future of our students.

DEL is a small-scale, friendly conference that creates a critical and reflective space at the intersection of creative disciplines in higher education, teaching, learning and digital technologies. The conference provides opportunities to test, share and discuss emerging forms of pedagogy, art and design practice, and research. The strength of DEL in recent years has been its ability to intersect research, making, teaching, and virtual and physical aspects of creative higher education.

Conference co-chairs

Aaron Knochel

Penn State

Claudia Röschmann

Texas State University

Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo

The New School

Sheldon Chow

University of the Arts London

Michael Collins

Penn State

Conference co-coordinators

Molly Davy

The New School

Hannah Hyde

University of the Arts London

DEL 2022 conference host

Penn State, online from Pennsylvania
September 22 - 23, 2022
Registration is free of charge.

Previous host institutions

• Hong Kong Baptist University (2021)
• Parsons, New School (2020, 2016)
• Texas State University (2019, 2014)
• York University (2018)
• University of the Arts London (2017, 2015, 2012, 2007, 2005)
• University of North Carolina, Wilmington (2013)
• Aalto University (2011)
• Savannah College of Art and Design (2010)

International representation

We have welcomed speakers and attendees from institutions across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States.

Contact us

For any information regarding the Digitally Engaged Learning conference, please contact Hannah at delconference@arts.ac.uk