I deliver talks and keynotes and conduct workshops across the globe. I love talking to people; however, I’m not a fan of the Ted Talk format. I believe in engaged dialogue and collective knowledge-sharing without the barrier of a stage and pedestal.
More Speaking & Engagements
workshop
keynote
Using Design Fiction to Imagine Sustainable Futures (workshop & keynote)
Keynote & workshop for Biocene, Transformation of Transportation in partnership with NASA, 2022
talk
Using Speculative Design to Inform Tech Policy for the Metaverse and Beyond
Presentation for the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, Technologies of Deception Conference, 2022
PODCAST
Augmented Realities, Design Fiction and Content with Heather Snyder Quinn
In dialogue with content strategist, Kevin Nichols on the All Things Content Podcast
talk
Strikethrough
Discussion of our AR installations highlighting historic protests throughout the Bay Area
keynote
Trespassing in the Metaverse
Wicklander Keynote at The Union League Club of Chicago for the Driehaus College of Business Annual Symposium
workshop
Attending [TO] Futures
Workshop with co-author Ayako Takase of RISD at the Attending [to] Futures Conference
Even More Speaking & Engagements
design futures
Presentation to masters in interaction design dept. (2022)
School of Visual Arts NYC
Transdisciplinary graphic design and art research and practices in higher education
Digitally Engaged Learning
Design and Professional Practice
Presentation at Kent State University, Kent, OH, October 2021
Kent State University
Regenerate: using emerging technology to challenge technocratic power
Speaker at Industrial Design Graduate Seminar, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, April 2021.
Rhode Island School of Design
The Collective Mapping of Communication Design Research and Scholarship
AIGA National
Crossing Boundaries, Alternative, extended and transdisciplinary graphic design education and research
Speaker and Panelist for AIGA National, 2021
AIGA National
Typographic Obfuscation: Communication for Privacy and Protest
Invited speaker at ATypI—The Association Typographique Internationale—a global nonprofit dedicated to type design, typography, and service to the design community, 2020
The Association Typographique Internationale
Presentation on the panel Immersion, Interactivity and Altered Realities. ACM Siggraph Digital Arts Community: Sparks. Virtual, February 26, 2021
ACM Siggraph Digital Arts Community
Design Research
Presenter at Connecting Scholars, Building Community: Design Research Network(ing), Design Incubation Affiliated Society Meeting, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Virtual, Feb 12, 2021.
College Art Association (CAA)
The Proletariat Hacking of High Capitalist Real Estate
Panelist for Digital Resistance: Emerging Technologies as Tools for Design Activism at The College Art Association 109th Conference. NY, NY, February 2021
Digitally Engaged Learning
What does a Matriarchal, Anti-Exceptional Design Future Look Like?
Presentation at the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) 2020 Conference: A Year Refocused, Providence, RI, February 2021
The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
Design Fiction and Emerging Technology
Speaker at Industrial Design Graduate Seminar, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, April 2020
Rhode Island School of Design
Design Intervention and Engagement: Design Incubation Colloquium 6.2
Chair of session at The College Art Association 108th Conference. Chicago, IL, February 2020.
The College Art Association
Transparency: Past/Present/Future
Presenter at Border Control—The New Media Caucus Symposium, Stamps School of Design, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September, 2019
The University of Michigan
Design Fiction in Professional Practice
Presentation for MDES in Integrative Design, STAMPS School of Design, Ann Arbor, MI, September 2019
STAMPS School of Design
Transparency: Past/Present/Future
Presentation at AIGA NY at Parsons School of Design, NY, NY, June 2019
Parsons School of Design
Alternatives to Traditional Internships.
Presentation at Collaborate: UCDA Design Education Summit, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, May 20-21, 2019
East Tennessee State University
A Multi-Modal Approach to Design Research
Presentation on the panel “Where Industry Meets Academia: Who is Leading the Pack in Design Research and Why” at The College Art Association 107th Conference. NY, NY, February 2019
The College Art Association
Leveraging the Smartphone as a Teaching Tool
Presentation at AIGA 2018 Design Educators Conference: Make, Heron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, June 2018
AIGA
Methods for Encouraging Risk Taking in Design Education
Presentation at AIGA 2018 Design Educators Conference: Make, Heron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, June 2018
AIGA
Leveraging the Smartphone as a Creative Teaching Tool
Presentation for Design Incubation and the Annual College Art Association Conference, 2018
College Art Association Conference
LeveraginG the Smartphone as a Creative Tool
Presentation at the Twelfth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices 2018 Special Focus: No Boundaries Design, ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, March 2018
ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
Methods for Encouraging Risk Taking in Design Education
Presentation at the Twelfth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices 2018 Special Focus: No Boundaries Design, ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, March 2018
ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
The Differences Between Skinning and Designing
Podcast for the AIGA-funded Design Edu Today
Design Edu Today
Co-eval: Rethinking contemporary approaches to collaboration and critical inquiry
Co-chair and panel moderator for AIGA 2018 Design Educators Conference, Converge: Disciplinarities and Digital Scholarship, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 2017
USC School of Cinematic Arts