Grafist 24-25 Symp: "CONNECTED TO" New Methodologies in Online Visual Communication Design Education (Nov 2021, Online)

Dates: TBA, Nov 2021
Location: Online
Website: Grafist
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 1 April 2021.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, we all have been connected to online education. Rather than lecturing at workshop ateliers and face-to-face meetings, we are limited with our computer screens, online audio-visual communication networks to be able to manage our courses as well as to continue dialogue with our students. Since the pandemic, physical and social isolation, the definition of private or public spaces in digital meeting platforms have been the key facts for design lecturers and students. The regulations or restrictions on online design education processes also directed the technical and pedagogical circumstances of the online teaching and learning methodologies.

To examine and discuss the current educational situation and create a systematic knowledge base about the scholarly research of remote/distance teaching of visual communication design, we organize two connected events this year. The first one, Grafist 24, is a peer-reviewed book that will be published in 2022. This will be a double-blind, peer-reviewed publication presenting the distance/remote visual communication design education experiences and visual communication design education research during the Covid-19 pandemic that can include studies ranging from course case studies to investigations, research, and discussions about the possible change and improvements of visual communication design education during and after the pandemic. This book targets the creative education methodologies during the pandemic and wishes to reveal or define the new perspectives and sustainable solutions in the field of visual design education that hasn't been technically applied or pedagogically systematized.

The second event, Grafist 25, is an online symposium that will be organized with the participation of the writers of the book's chapters and keynote speakers in November 2021. The online symposium is open for academicians, lecturers, and teaching assistants from the design disciplines. The program will be announced later.

See the website for further information.