Research Grant Call for Proposals

The AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its second annual design research grant. Through a competitive, peer-review process, one grant of $5000 will be awarded annually to provide support for design research. This includes scholarship that generates new knowledge, integrates design knowledge into other disciplines as an influential force, or explores new pedagogies through the teaching of design and evaluation of learning outcomes. Deadline: July 1, 2009

The AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its second annual design research grant.

Through a competitive, peer-review process, one grant of $5000 will be awarded annually to provide support for design research. This includes scholarship that generates new knowledge, integrates design knowledge into other disciplines as an influential force, or explores new pedagogies through the teaching of design and evaluation of learning outcomes.

May 1, 2009, a sub-committee of the Design Educators Community Steering Committee will begin collecting and reviewing grant applications and will continue accepting submissions through July 1, 2009. Once the submission deadline has been reached, the sub-committee will distribute each proposal to two external individuals whose expertise match the proposal topic. The experts will read the proposals and provide the sub-committee with feedback. The information gathered from the peer review process will help the sub-committee choose the recipient of the grant. If you are interested in serving as an expert reader please contact Stacie Rohrbach at stacie [at] cmu [dot] edu. Your participation is much appreciated.

Each recipient of the grant will present his/her design research at an upcoming AIGA Design Education Conference. The recipient will also submit to the AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee a paper that describes his/her findings in greater detail. The paper will be published on the AIGA Design Educators Community website.

In 2008, Maria Rogal, who is an associate professor of design at the University of Florida, received the first annual offering of the grant. In addition to presenting and publishing her research, Maria plans to provide updates on her project throughout its duration and participate in a blog discussion that is based on her work as her project nears completion. Please follow her progress on the AIGA Design Educators Community website over the coming months. For your reference, to see the grant proposal that Maria submitted last year is included on the research grant website click here.

Those interested in applying for a grant can review the 2009 guidelines click here.
To access helpful articles that describe design research click here.

To download the required proposal forms click here.
and to submit an application on the research grant website located here.

If you have additional questions or comments regarding the research grant please contact Stacie Rohrbach at stacie [at] cmu [dot] edu.

Posted by designeducators in Initiatives | February 17, 2009