2025 SEGD Academic Summit

Welcome
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm

Session 1: Collaboration & Community in Practice
12:15 pm – 2:05 pm

• Transforming Public Spaces: Enhancing Community Engagement through Experiential Graphic Design in a street parking garage – Huiwon Lim + Phil Choo

• Perception of Space: Experience Oriented, Participant Activated, Exhibition Design – Sofia Ingegno

• Creating with Community: Imagining Collaborative, Justice-Oriented Spaces in our Neighborhoods – Kellyn Nettles

• Shaping EGD Education: Case Studies in Industry Collaboration and Urban Design – Julie Hurley

• Moderated Q&A – Christina Lyons + Angela Iarocci

Break
2:05 pm – 2:20 pm

Session 2: The Politics and Ethics of Storytelling
2:20 pm – 4:10 pm

• Hollow Motifs: Exploring AI’s Impact on the Public, Practice and Design Education – Kleighton Burns

• From Pixels to Places: Reintegrating Typography’s Spatial and Experiential Dimensions in Design Education – Seojoo Han

• Ethical Boundaries in Guerrilla Experiential Design – Hamza Iqbal

• On Tap: The Columbia Tap Trail – Gerald Sastra + Cheryl Beckett + Susan Rogers

• Moderated Q&A – Michele Y. Washington + Muhammad Rahman

Moderated Breakout Session and Summary Remarks
4:10 pm – 5:30 pm

• Topic 1: Is there a Crisis in Higher Education? How do Academics Respond? – Moderated by Debra Satterfield + Neeta Verma
• Topic 2: State of Cultural Institutions Losing Funding – Moderated by Cybelle Jones

Welcome
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm

Session 3: Explorations in Exhibition and Experience Design
12:15 pm – 2:05 pm

• A Living Storyscape: Making museums alive – Vivian Combariza

• Storytelling in a Shifting Landscape – Steven Coward

• Prospective Memories: Futures of Monument Design – Lisa Bambach

• Connection Not Found: Exploring Digital Issues with Physical Exhibits – Bamidélé Elégbèdé

• Moderated Q&A – Tim McNeil + George Lim

Break
2:05 pm – 2:20 pm

Session 4: Designing for Inclusion, Health and Well-Being
2:20 pm – 4:10 pm

• The Collective: A remote peer-support platform – Keira Wong

• Natural Neighborhoods: Creating Well-Being for Individuals with ADHD and Autism – Sarah Miorelli

• Sonic Horizons: Embodied Biophilic Experience in A Sensory-Immersive Environment: Effect on Emotional Well-Being – Maral Salehian

• WONDER: Transforming Narratives in Difficult Exhibitions – Aian Raquel

• Moderated Q&A – Debra Satterfield + George Lim

Moderated Breakout Session and Summary Remarks
4:10 pm  – 5:30 pm

• Topic 1: Is there a Crisis in Higher Education? How do Academics Respond? – Moderated by Debra Satterfield + Neeta Verma
• Topic 2: State of Cultural Institutions Losing Funding – Moderated by Cybelle Jones

At this year’s SEGD Academic Summit, we invite you to try the SIX app—a tool built on 20 years of research from Immersion Neuroscience that captures your real-time, anonymous emotional responses using the smartwatch or fitness tracker you already wear.

By participating, you’ll offer powerful insights into what resonates—and get behind-the-scenes access to a tool that’s changing how we measure impact in design and research.

• 100% anonymous
• No biometric data ever leaves your phone

How it works: https://youtu.be/h0SC-hCabN4

To Participate:

1. Click the link from your phone
2. Accept the invite
3. Pair your device
4. Start measuring at the start of the event.
   
   Reminder: Please pause if you step away.**

Questions about the app or science behind it? Email Laura@Getimmersion.com! 

We are excited to share the launch of Poster Design Challenge focused on the theme: Designing Possible Futures: Practicing Change in Real Time. This is open to creatives in our SEGD community who are in the early stages of practice (1–5 years) or professionals making a transition into the field.

Link to Guidelines

Deadline: Friday, August 1, 2025. 11:59 pm ET