College of Communication and Information
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Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present
The word 鈥渃ommunication鈥 likely makes you think of language, but November鈥檚 Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.
Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in 麻豆传媒鈥檚 School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.