Explore the schedule for this year’s DEL Conference. You can join us in-person in London or New York, or online from wherever you are. If you’re joining us online, be sure to compare the listed time zones with your own. In each session description, there is a link to a time zone converter.
All sessions fall into four categories: Panel, Paper, Case Study and Design Your Own (DYO) sessions. Read the submission guidelines to learn more.
Note: Schedule is subject to change.
Day 1 – Thursday, 21 September
| Start Time (London) | Start Time (NYC) | Room A | Room B |
| 12:45 | 07:45 | Welcome Dr. Danielle Tran and Sheldon Chow | |
| 13:00 | 08:00 | Opening keynote Kwamou Eva Feukeu | |
| 14:00 | 09:00 | Break | |
| 14:10 | 09:10 | From Reality to Concept – Cultivating Studio Practice Online (DYO) Amy Sampson, Aideen Gibson and Vicki Weavers (Falmouth University) | Fostering Resistance through Digital Cultures and Art Pedagogies: Exploring Emerging Trends (Panel) Ye Sul Park, Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson and Fouz Aljameel (Penn State) |
| 15:10 | 10:10 | Break | |
| 15:20 | 10:20 | Future Echoes? A prologue & a tale (DYO) Natasha Bonnelame, Andy Lee, Nadia Malik, Ben Turnbull (London College of Fashion, UAL) | Hangul Project: bilingual and intercultural experiences between English and Korean (Panel) Taekyeom Lee, Yeohyun Ahn (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Chanee Choi (University of New Mexico) and Shin Yeon Jean (University of Toledo) |
| 16:20 | 11:20 | Learning spatial audio with the Open Ambisonics Toolkit (Case Study) Dr. Per Magnus Linberg (City University of Hong Kong) and Giuseppe Pisano (Norwegian Academy of Music) | ‘Lurkers’ in the Fashion Business School; A study of learning participation in Online Classrooms (Case Study) Stephanie LIberman (London College of Fashion (UAL)) |
| 16:50 | 11:50 | Meal | |
| 17:30 | 12:30 | Visualising the online art and design student experience (DYO) Georgia Steele and Sebastian May (University of the Arts London) | Beyond Word Clouds: Case Studies of Visualizing Topics from Design Journals and Video Transcripts (Case Study) Eugene Park (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) The Near Future of Iterative Design and Visual Representation: A Personal Journey with AI and XR (DYO) Emre Ozdemir (Pratt Institute) |
| 18:30 | 13:30 | Break | |
| 18:40 | 13:40 | Inclusive Art Critique (Paper) Dannell MacIlwraith (Kutztown University) | Magic in the classroom: Labor, Delight, and A.I. (DYO) Benjamin Andrew (Penn State) |
| 19:10 | 14:10 | Closing Remarks | |
| 19:15 | 14:15 | End |
Day 2 – Friday, 22 September
| Start Time (London) | Start Time (NYC) | Room A | Room B |
| 12:45 | 07:45 | Afternoon cuppa | |
| 13:00 | 08:00 | UAL Student Panel Célune Acheampong, Mars Al Najar, Slavi Kaloferov, Kat Newman, Finn Weaver | |
| 14:00 | 09:00 | Break | |
| 14:10 | 09:10 | Undoing Algorithmic Teaching Topographies (Panel) Karen Keifer-Boyd, Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson and John Summerson (Penn State) | Pedagogy in public: virtual interfaces as the new agora (Case Study) Melanie Wilmink (Yonsei University) Generative Machine Learning as a Speculative Design Toolkit for Climate Education (Case Study) Ray LC (City University of Hong Kong) |
| 15:10 | 10:10 | Break | |
| 15:20 | 10:20 | Researching AI Generative Platforms with Human Computation: A Method (DYO) Dr. Aaron Knochel (Penn State) | Open spaces: Designing a culture of sharing in creative online environments (DYO) Samantha Perkins (Arizona State University) |
| 16:20 | 11:20 | Collective world-building workshop: Dis/embodied audio-visual collage (DYO) Daniel Lichtman (Stockton University) | Teaching AI as a Creative Medium to Interdisciplinary Art and Design Students (Case Study) Jeongki Lim and Mark Randall (Parsons School of Design The New School) |
| 16:50 | 11:50 | Meal | |
| 17:30 | 12:30 | Teaching Realities Across New Spaces: AI in the Digitally Engaged Design Classroom (Panel) William Culpepper, Antonio Borja, Kathryn Morgan and Jason Mitchell (Academy of Art University) | Shaping Inclusive Futures of Immersive Technology: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Design for People with Disabilities (Case Study) Jinsil Seo, Caleb Kicklighter, Paule Taele (Texas A&M University) The creative revolution is live: How the unicorns are breaking boldly to be seen using design and technology (DYO) Kristina Lamour Sansone and Tari Gant (University of Southern California) |
| 18:30 | 13:30 | Break | |
| 18:40 | 13:40 | AI Use in Contemporary Artists’ Practices: Implications for Art Education (Paper) Dr. Borim Song (East Carolina University) and Dr. Ahran Koo (California State University, Fresno) | Extending the Visual Storytelling Narrative Arc through Augmented Reality (Case Study) Ellen Christensen (San Francisco State University) |
| 19:10 | 14:10 | Closing Remarks | |
| 19:15 | 14:15 | End |