International Conferences

“Learning research design: Experiences with an instantiated thinking tool.” Presented at the Eighth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2012), Champaign, IL. May 2012.

“Analysis versus experience: Exploring the physical context of the learning experience.” Presented at the Fourth International Conference of Design Principles and Practices, Chicago, IL. February 2010.

“Lattices of meaning: Interrogating the intersections of history, politics, culture and biography.” Presented at the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2009), Champaign, IL. May 2009.

“Physical space and visual learning: What can the physical attributes of a performing arts center teach us?” Presented as part of a panel titled, “Performing arts centers as experiential education settings,” with L. Bresler, J. Panke Makela, and W. Silva, at the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2009), Champaign, IL. May 2009.

“Connecting the past with the present: Can a creativity exercise from the 1950’s still be relevant to industrial design today?” Presented at the ICSID/IDSA Connecting ‘07 International Education Symposium, San Francisco, CA. September 2007.

National Conferences

“Cultivating sp/pl/aces (physical spaces, experiential places, and abstract spaces) as a recipe for differentiated instruction. To be presented at a round table session titled, "Visualizing and performing new spaces in the arts" at the American Educational Research Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. April 2013.

“Building community around research-in-process sessions: ’Fat data’ and the interpretive zone.” To be presented with L. Bresler and K. Cast at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Fort Worth, TX. March 2013.

“A review of the research literature on classroom spaces.” Presented as part of the Design Issues Group classroom design workshop. National Art Education Association Annual Convention, New York, NY. March 2012.

“Physical context of learning: Can the physical attributes of learning spaces support the learning experience?” Presented at the American Educational Research Association National Convention, Denver, CO. May 2010.

“What is a mental model? Can they be mixed? What do you mean by mixing?” Presented at the American Educational Research Association National Convention, Denver, CO. May 2010.

“Teaching research design explicitly using visual information, haptic qualities, spatial relations, and play.” Presented at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD. April 2010.

“Reading physical spaces: What can the physical attributes of higher learning settings teach us?” Presented at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD. April 2010.

“Creativities: Facilitating creativity with visual cues.” Presented at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN. April 2009.

“Certainly a possibility: A case study illuminating two competing styles of creativity.” Presented at the IDSA Polar Opposites National Conference, Phoenix, AZ. September 2008.

Local / Regional

“Teaching in the art and design studio.” Presented at the Graduate Academy for College Teaching. Sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois. August 2009, August 2010, August 2011, August 2012.

“Experiencing the research process through haptics and spatial relations.” Presented to a graduate class in mixed methods research methodology. University of Illinois. December 2011.

“Questioning strategies and planning a class session.” Presented at the Graduate Academy for College Teaching. Sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois. August 2007, August 2008, August 2009, August 2010, August 2011.

“Navigating the research process explicitly.” Presented to a graduate class in qualitative research methodology. University of Illinois. October 2010.

“Mentorship: Narrowing the disconnects between industrial design education and workplace demands.” Panel presentation with K. Gati, T. Mitchell, M. Pavel, P. Pupa, and C. Wu, at the University of Illinois Industrial Design Alumni Partnership Event, Champaign, IL. April 2009.

“Space in learning environments: Early thoughts on a study of the educational potential of learning spaces.” Presented at the Art Education Doctoral Research Summit with Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. November 2008.

“Picking through the pieces: Multiple realities of the lived experience.” Presented with A. Houseal, A. Hursh, and H. Lueszler at Ethnography of the University Initiative Student Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. November 2007.

“A career in industrial design.” Presented at the College of Arts and Letters Liberal Arts Career Day, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. October 1991.