SADEA - South Asian Design Educators Alliance

11/08/2026

DESIGN CHARCHA with SETAREH GHOREISHI : AUGUST 14th
Join us for an online session of Design Charcha with Setareh Ghoreishi, Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
Beyond Connection: Culture, Meaning & Design
Friday, August 14th, 2025 12:00 pm–1:00 pm ET
Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/dZFRCv97
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The event is free and open to all................
Setareh Ghoreishi is a graphic designer and multidisciplinary digital media artist. Setareh explores the role of visual art and design in the interaction between two different cultures, Iranian and American. She illustrates different cultural values through personal experiments in the language of design, digital art, and installations. Her work investigates the juxtaposition of languages and examines how design can be shaped and influenced by visual, socio-cultural, and historical contexts. She has presented at design events both nationally and internationally. She was accepted into various art and design residency programs, and her works have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions, including a recent solo show at Vanderbilt University and participation in the group show “Womxnhouse Detroit.” ...............
SADEA Design Charcha is a dialogue series featuring designers whose research and collaborations span within and beyond the South Asian diasporic context.

15/07/2026

We look forward to welcoming you on July 16 – 17, 2026, to the virtual SADEA Angan Design Symposium, where we will gather to learn from one another, engage in meaningful dialogue, and advance South Asian design histories, pedagogies, research, and perspectives.

Check this link to learn more about Angan:
https://lnkd.in/e4BnW-A6

Registration is still open until July 15th, Noon EDT.
To register: https://lnkd.in/eDtmvEcc

15/07/2026

15/07/2026

ANGAN DESIGN SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Join us virtually as we gather, reflect, and reimagine South Asian design futures together.
Register by July 15th, 12pm EDT: https://lnkd.in/eDtmvEcc
Check this link to learn more about Angan: https://lnkd.in/e4BnW-A6

07/07/2026

Meet the ANGAN Symposium Plenary Speaker 4 ////
Dr. Dori Tunstall is an award-winning design anthropologist and educator with over 25 years of experience leading institutional transformation across Australia, Canada, and the United States. Dori began her career as a high-tech user experience consultant at Sapient and Arc Worldwide before moving into academia at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she deepened the practice of transdisciplinary design research. As Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at Swinburne University, she created the first Master of Design (Design Anthropology) program fully integrated with Indigenous ways of knowing. Later, as Dean of the Faculty of Design at OCAD University, Dori became the first Black—and Black female—dean of a faculty of design anywhere in the world. She led the globally recognized transformation of OCAD U's hiring practices and curriculum to become more diverse, decolonial, inclusive, and accessible. In 2023, she returned to the United States to found Dori Tunstall, Inc., working with communities and industries that want to practice liberatory joy through research-informed care.
https://doritunstall.com/
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10/06/2026

Meet the ANGAN Symposium Plenary Speaker 3 ////
Dr. Suresh Sethi is a Professor of Industrial Design at the School of Art & Design, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His career spans continents and cultures—encompassing America, China, the Netherlands, Italy, India, and Singapore—bringing together a wealth of design perspectives. Formerly the Program Chair and James Avery Endowed Chair in Industrial Design at UIUC, Sethi holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Design from IIT Bombay, a Master’s in Lighting Design from Domus Academy in Milan, and an Integrated Master’s in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. His leadership extends beyond academia. As Vice President of Design at Whirlpool Corporation Asia, he shaped products for millions of homes, and as Founding Professor of the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, he helped build a new creative institution from the ground up. Sethi’s design philosophy is rooted in building deep relationships—between product and user, product and profit, and product and production. He moves beyond the physical limits of materials to embrace the emotional and cultural dimensions of design. His research has explored life under artificial light as a multisensory interaction of culture, emotion, and sensation, and today he investigates how AI and storytelling can transform the way product forms are imagined and visualized.

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09/06/2026

Meet the ANGAN Symposium Plenary Speaker 2 //////
Dr. Dolly Daou is an internationally recognized academic leader, design researcher, and educator with over 26 years of global leadership experience in food design, interior architecture, urban interiors, and cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship. Her leadership has advanced program accreditations, global partnerships, and award-winning curricula. Combining her Doctorate knowledge in interior architecture and urbanism with ecological management of food design, Dr. Daou became one of the global food design experts with distinctive trans-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary skills and knowledge. She is currently expanding her scholarly work through her publications. Unbounded On the Interior and Interiority and The Transformative Nature of Food: Adaptation, Connectivity and Identity. Dr Daou is Good Design Australia Ambassador and was awarded Citizen of the Year (Melbourne) for her outstanding contribution to design education and community engagement (2024). Also the recipient of Al-Safeer Congress Ambassador's Award from Dubai Economy and Tourism.

https://dollydaou.org/
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08/06/2026

Meet the ANGAN Symposium Plenary Speaker 1 //////
Anne Berry is a writer, designer, and Director of the School of Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has been featured in Letterform Archive, Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race (2021) by Kelly Walters, and on Maurice Cherry’s award-winning podcast Revision Path. Her published writing includes “The Virtual Design Classroom” for Communication Arts magazine and “Sylvia Harris: The Enduring Influence of a Resolutely Black and Worldly Citizen Designer” in Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon (2025), edited by Elizabeth Resnick. Berry is a 2018 Design Incubation Fellow, a 2023 Writing Space Fellow, co-creator of the award-winning project Ongoing Matter: Democracy, Design, and the Mueller Report, and managing editor of The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression, and Reflection (2022), an anthology centering teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. She is also co-editor of the forthcoming text Guiding Principles for Inclusive Design Values: Re-imagining Design Practice & Education (2026).

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08/06/2026

We sincerely thank everyone who submitted and supported the SADEA Angan Symposium. We are now beginning the review process, and kindly encourage all participants to complete their registration at the earliest opportunity. Register now to get the Early Bird Special rate.

Early Bird Special: June 1 – 20, 2026
Design professional: $40
Student: $20

Register now to get the Early Bird Special rate: https://lnkd.in/gGNQwiST

05/06/2026

ANGAN Symposium / SUBMISSION DEADLINE TODAY / JUNE 5th, 2026!
If you have not yet submitted to Angan, there is still time. Join us in advancing and celebrating South Asian design histories, perspectives, practices, and futures through this first-of-its-kind symposium. Submit your proposal today and be part of this important collective conversation.

We look forward to receiving your abstract and are excited to welcome diverse proposals from educators, practitioners, researchers, and students around the globe engaging with South Asian design. .......
We welcome short/long papers, posters (visual essays), participation in the Student Forum, and Portfolio Reviews. All abstracts undergo double-blind peer review, with accepted abstracts and selected papers published in the Angan Online Journal.

Abstract submission deadline: June 5, 2026 (today)!
Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gnhVBYDT
Submit here: https://lnkd.in/gf4YUsgc........
Angan Symposium Registration:
Early Bird Special: June 1 – 20, 2026
Design professional: $40
Student: $20.......
Regular Rate: June 20 – July 17, 2026
Design professional: $50
Student: $25

Register now to get the Early Bird Special rate: https://lnkd.in/gGNQwiST.......
SADEA STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Two students will be selected to receive complimentary registration to attend SADEA Angan Symposium, 2026. Students may apply for this registration fee waiver by submitting a link to their portfolio along with a 200-word statement describing their design intent and how it promotes South Asian cultural heritage. Recipients will be announced as they are awarded the scholarship and fee waiver.

Submissions are due June 15.
Accepted submissions will be notified by June 17.

Please click here to submit your application for student scholarships:
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