"Socially and Community-Engaged Design"
October 21 | 6 p.m. MT | Room L1060
Free admission, everyone welcome
Isabel Prochner joins us via Zoom in Room L1060 for this presentation.
Dr. Isabel Prochner is a design teacher, researcher, and industrial designer focused on socially and community-engaged design. Her research, creative practice, and service endeavors to bolster social responsibility through design, thus participating in the transition to more equitable futures.
She is writing her third book, under contract with Routledge, and has publications in the top journals Design Studies and Design Issues (Winter 2025 issue). Over the past 12 years, she has presented at multiple international conferences and has been an invited speaker at major events, including as a keynote at Women in Design Deep Dive 2024 by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
Dr. Prochner is an assistant professor of industrial design at Virginia Tech and recently received the IDSA Young Educator Award 2024. She completed her PhD and Master’s in Environmental Design at the University of Montreal and holds a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta.
Image courtesy of the speaker.
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