How Design Education Can Use Generative Play to Innovate for Social Change: A Case Study on the Design of South African Children’s Health Education Toolkits
Audrey Grace Bennett
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University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Audrey G. Bennett is a 2015 Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Scholar of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also a tenured Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she teaches design theory and research to multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM. She studies the user-centered design of multimodal and intersensory images for communication across cultures. Her publications include: Engendering Interaction with Images; The Rise of Research in Graphic Design; Interactive Aesthetics; Good Design is Good Social Change; Follow the Golden Ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a Cross-Cultural Aesthetic for Images. She is the co-editor of the Icograda Design Education Manifesto 2011 and a member of the editorial board of the accredited Image & Text Journal. She holds an M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale University.
Fatima Cassim
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University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
South Africa
Fatima Cassim holds a Master’s degree in Information Design and currently heads the Information Design division at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her responsibilities include subject coordination, and undergraduate teaching, as well as supervision for postgraduate design students. Her research focuses on the culture of design; in particular, she is interested in design activism and the possible impact it may have on design citizenship. She is a past Harvard South African Fellow (2012-2013), during which time she was a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Fatima has served as an adjudicator on a number of national and international student design competitions and awards schemes since 2006. In addition, she is a member of the editorial board for the accredited Image & Text Journal. When she is not being an academic, she tries to exercise creative muscle by running around the globe.
Marguerite van der Merwe
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
South Africa
Marguerite van der Merwe holds a BA degree in Information Design. She lectures undergraduate Information Design students in the Department of Visual Arts. Marguerite has a particular passion for corporate identity design, typography and editorial design. Editorial projects that she has completed include Transnet’s Integrated Report for 2012, while working at HKLM. In 2016 she completed her Master’s degree with a focus on branding for non-profit organizations.