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Concurrent Education Session

SUN-B07: My Place: Using Signs and Graphics to Enhance Personal Connections to Space

Sunday, October 6, 2024
10:15am – 11:30am ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 151AB
1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL

Explore signage as identity, wayfinding, and interpretive graphics. This session will share new approaches to design processes and applications: 1. Design as an act of co-creation with clients, Indigenous communities, and localities. 2. Signage as an invitation to user experience. Ideas will include the personal, community, neighborhood, public, and private.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Identify processes and designs that translate local communities’ unique histories and identities into visible, engaging, and relevant applications.
  • Provide guidance on how to be “a good host” through wayfinding, interpretive signs, and graphics.
  • Understand starting points for creating more reciprocal co-design processes. Explain some of the risks and rewards in decolonizing design processes.
  • Compare process and results based on the composition of stakeholder groups and the decision-making process.