Education

Connect 4|Audio

Min Lew and Zaiah Sampson: Finding Your Creative Voice

Feeling confident in yourself and your work—especially when you’re still a student—can be a challenge.

Dana Arnett|Audio

S10E7: Marcia Lausen

Marcia Lausen is Director of the UIC School of Design and founder of the Chicago office of Studio/lab.

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Education

Educators are among our most cherished cultural ambassadors, sage deputies charged with cultivating curiosity, bestowing counsel, constructing networks, broadening horizons, and expanding capacities for us all.

Jane Margolies|Projects

St. Augustine School Chicken Project

Report on the sustainability program at St. Augustine parochial school in the South Bronx.

Julie Lasky|Projects

Bigshot Camera

Report on a camera that children assemble to learn about science and engineering principles.

Jennifer Ehrenberg|Projects

Chicago Welcomes You

On designing a resettlement process for Burmese immigrants in Chicago.

Aspen Editors|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit Report: UNICEF and Early Childhood Development

At the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the UNICEF Early Childhood Development Project proposed a new approach to emergency kits that would be more precisely tuned to young …

Aspen Editors|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit: Initial Report

Initial report on the 2009 Aspen Design Summit, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute.

Jonathan Schultz|Projects

DESIS

Report on the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability project's latest home at New York's New School.

Jonathan Schultz|Projects

Kick4Life

AIDS education mixes with soccer in plans for a new Lesotho stadium.

Julie Lasky|Projects

Pizza Farm

Report on Project M at Winterhouse's Pizza Farm event in rural Connecticut in August 2009.

Allison Arieff|Projects

Emergence

Emergence, a new massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) fosters diplomatic skills.