In my role as the director of a University Writing Center and Digital Studio, a design lens has been essential for my everyday practice. Design, in its broadest sense, is at the heart of what writing center administrators use to fuel and make sense of their work. Design describes the interconnectedness between modes of meaning (e.g., image, writing, color, layout) and the complex work of contextualizing arrangements for specific audiences (New London Group, 1996). However, as Sasha Costanza-Chock (2020) reminds us, “everyone designs, but only certain kinds of design work are acknowledged, valorized, remunerated, and credited.” Settled within this issue’s…
Author: Kamila Albert
Kamila Albert
Kamila Albert, PhD (she/her) is the director of Florida State University’s Reading-Writing Center and Digital Studio. She is also a specialized faculty member in the English department’s rhetoric and composition program. Kamila’s research focuses on multimodal composition, digital and visual literacy, and writing center studies.