About this Event:

As part of the Hispanic Heritage Talks 2020, the education panel aims to present educators representing diverse interests and academic institutions who will be discussing how their Latinx Heritage influences their teaching and creative practices. 

A curated experience that offers a wide gamut of perspectives on the status of design from the point of view of educators whose specialties range from community engagement in displaced populations to sports branding.

This culturally dynamic panel addresses the responsibility that design has towards social change and community enablement as a driving force for good. From the obstacles that affect all members of a group to the devices and mechanisms that provide design with the properties needed to change social dynamics and cultural evolution.

Through this dialect, we can explore how the realities of the demographic for both the subject of study and the educator become critical points to factor as driving forces of social change.  

Moderated by Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Houston-Downtown and founder of Design Global Change, a collaborative of creatives contributing solutions to the challenges facing society.  

From Concepcion, Chile to Chicago, Illinois, this panel is a progression of ethnicities and backgrounds shedding light onto what design means to education and the power of education through design.

About HHT2020:

Hispanic Heritage Talks 2020 is a series of talks across AIGA chapters during  Hispanic Heritage Month. Between September 15th–October 15th, different chapters will host speakers from multiple creative disciplines to join this celebration. This is the first initiative under the AIGA Unidos umbrella.