2023

Design, but with borders back home:
A Pathway to Explore Horizontal Design
 

With Shaza Jendi 

HASTAC Conference “Critical Making and Social Justice”, Brooklyn, New York 

https://hastac2023.sched.com/

How does design work as a tool for shaping, understanding, & communicating identity –
“the fact of being who or what a person is” – in everyday life?
 

With Dori Griffin, David Clulow, Brooke Hull 

Dialogue: Proceedings Of The AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences 

Connectivity Through
Community Asset Mapping
 

Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principles &
Practices, Lisbon, Portugal+Online 

https://designprinciplesandpractices.com/about/history/2023-conference

2022

Expanded practices: positionality and plurality
in the field
 

With Maria Rogal

UCDA Design Education Summit 

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6521f664/2022-des-proceedings.pdf

CONNECT - Connectivity Through
Community Asset Mapping: Co-designing
with Project YouthBuild
 

ABCD Institute Higher Education Series, Online 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piZM0C3Uovw

Workshop-Shaping Interactions 

With Shaza Jendi, Marjan Khatibi 

UCDA Design Education Summit, Bowling Green, OH 

https://www.ucda.com/events/120/


Intercultural perspectives in design process. Unforeseen challenges and opportunities, Chair 

Panelists: Gilberto Corona, Shaza Jendi, Marjan Khatibi, Alejandra Silva

2022 AIGA National Conference In Seattle, Washington 

https://educators.aiga.org/2022-dec-mini-conference-surface/



2020

Adaptive design education strategies
for equitable access

With Dori Griffin and Brooke Hull 

Cumulus Conference in Detroit, MI

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Social Distancing???!!! Perspective For Nurturing Environments For Hybrid? Remote
Multicultural And Multidisciplinary Collaboration

With Alejandra Silva Uliarte

Digitally Engaged Learning Conference | Online

https://www.digitallyengagedlearning.net/2020/sessions/social-distancing-perspectives-for-nurturing/

A Study Of Visual Factors In Municipality Portal Design In The Developing
And Developed Countries: A Comparison Between The CityOf Tehran And Washington D.C.

UCDA Design Education Summit | Online

https://www.ucda.com/media/files/files/1c794a1b/ucda-hc-proceedings-2020-07-06.pdf https://www.ucda.com/human-centered/


2018

Paper - Visual Analysis Of The Capital Cities
of Developed Countries’ Portals

With Mehrdad Kashtiara

5th International Conference On Arts And Humanities - ICOAH

https://doi.org/10.17501/23572744.2018.5103

Teaching And Learning Through
Digital Archives, Panelist
 

Panel Chair: Dori Griffin

UCDA Design Education Summit | Online

https://www.ucda.com/media/files/files/1c794a1b/ucda-hc-proceedings-2020-07-06.pdf

Interested in Collaboration?

What Decolonial Design is Not,
Panel Moderator

Panelists: Ahmed Ansari, Lesley-Ann Noel, Sadie Red Wing

SHIFT - AIGA DEC Virtual Summit | Online

https://www.aiga.org/inspiration/talks/panel-what-decolonial-design-is-not

Baban, Graphic Year Book
Baban Publisher

Baban Publisher, Tehran, Iran