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How to teach systems thinking to designers: An Illinois Case Study

At the end of our 2016 book “Design to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design In Practice,” we wrote that our systems thinking for designers process was in its infancy and and... read more →
  • January 25, 2018
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Education, Systems thinking, Teaching
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AIGA Nuts+Bolts

On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 we presented our talk "Retooling Graphic Design Assignments: Building the Framework for a Sustainable Future" at AIGA Nuts+Bolts in Bowling Green, Ohio.  Historically, to create,... read more →
  • June 13, 2016
  • Yvette Perullo
  • Conferences, Education, Systems thinking

The Material is the Message

This past spring 2014 semester I joined forces with two other design educators from vastly different teaching institutions than my own to test the most effective way to teach sustainable... read more →
  • June 14, 2014
  • Eric Benson
  • Conferences, Education, Projects
Dezombies

DeZombies and the Coming Design Apocalypse

On April 13, 2013 I gave a presentation with a colleague John Jennings (SUNY Buffalo) at the AIGA Blunt Conference in Norfolk, VA entitled "DeZombies and the Coming Design Apocalypse."... read more →
  • May 21, 2013
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Conferences, Education

Designers and Architects Meet a Sustainable Farmer

During the fall of 2011, I had coffee with a Professor from Architecture where we hatched out a plan to use our respective spring 2012 courses to create a functioning... read more →
  • June 20, 2012
  • Eric Benson
  • Education, Exhibitions, Projects
rightsize

Teaching Systems Thinking Helps Create More Sustainable Designers

As I've written before about teaching sustainability in manageable chunks, I took the opportunity this fall 2011 semester to continue to perfect this pedagogy. I allow the students to only... read more →
  • December 15, 2011
  • Eric Benson
  • Education, Projects, Systems thinking
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Educating the Educators

On October 20, 2011 I had the privilege to speak at the AIGA Chicago's Living Principles event with John Harris (principal at a5). The event sold out and featured a discussion... read more →
  • October 23, 2011
  • Eric Benson
  • Education, Events
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Designing a Sustainable Design Studio

This past Saturday, October 1, I presented a talk at the Denver Cumulus Conference about the findings from my 2011 Ethics of a Designer in a Global Economy (EDGE) course.... read more →
  • October 2, 2011
  • Eric Benson
  • Conferences, Education

The Designer as Social Entrepreneur (Part 2)

This is the second in three installments of an in-depth look at the future of design education... the designer as social entrepreneur. Communication Design students graduate from universities across North... read more →
  • July 24, 2011
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Education
Purdue University Pao Hall

Shifting Careers and Curriculum

F. Scott Fitzgerald said "What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are." Can value can be measured? Can worth be self-assessed? Are... read more →
  • July 13, 2011
  • Yvette Perullo
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