Date and Time
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026
10:00 — 5:00 pm
Location
Admission
Free
Schedule of Programs:
Applied Design Research Across Communication Contexts: Media, Organizations and Public Engagement
Raytheon Amphitheater
10 – 11:30 AM
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In collaboration with the Communication Studies Department and the School of Journalism.
Panel discussion with Lin Chen, Filiz Durgun, Meg Heckman, Matt Nisbet, David Tamés and Dan Zedek. Moderated by Maria Elena Villar.
This panel shares the work of faculty and graduate students in Journalism, Communication Studies and Media Studies where design intersects with communication in a variety of settings.
Playing with Mobile Gaming’s History
Center for Design
12 – 2 PM
In collaboration with the Center for Transformative Media.
Workshop and guided tour led by Ragan Glover, Adriana de Souza e Silva and Sutanuka Jashu.
This event introduces workshop participants to the Retro Mobile Gaming Project and consists of two parts: an interactive workshop and a guided tour of the Retro Mobile Gaming collection.
Participants are invited to explore the guiding rationale for this project: Designing a comprehensive resource that develops and preserves an yet-to-be-known history of mobile games. Presenters will outline a “playful” approach to uncovering this unknown history, which included building and iterating from a database as a minimum viable product, crowd-sourcing valuable but error-prone data, and learning to locate yet-to-be-known information through inference.
Workshop attendees can anticipate learning strategies for how to design from a single, unrefined idea into a comprehensive and publicly-engaging resource. After experiencing the Retro Mobile Gaming Project and playing with gaming devices at the Center for Design, participants will be invited to a guided tour of the Retro Mobile Gaming collection at Snell Library, where they will be able to contribute their own ideas and creative approaches for future iterations of the project.
Modeling Time & Temporality & Change
Center for Design
3 – 5 PM
Workshop led by Ahmed Ansari.
This workshop will introduce participants to thinking about time and temporality in the context of design practice; in particular with the problem of change in systems. Tracing different senses of temporal change to their theological and anthropological roots and problematizing the various senses of time at play in participatory design, design futuring, and speculative and critical design, we will then have some fun modeling different models of change and discovering them at play in reality.
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Monday, March 16 – Health + Wellness
Tuesday, March 17 – CAMD Day
This is Wednesday, March 18 – Media + Play