Ginn Bonsu Assibey
The researcher's work focuses on a comprehensive exploration of various aspects of design education and its intersections with ethics, sustainability, and consumer behavior across different domains. Their research examines career paths in communication design, design practices in Africa, innovative solutions for sustainability efforts, ethical practices in tech development, and the role of digital media in communication. Additionally, their studies delve into consumer packaging behaviors and societal trends influenced by technology, highlighting how these areas collectively contribute to understanding both academic and social implications of design innovations.
Faculty Biography
Ginn Assibey Bonsu is a senior lecturer and holds a doctorate in Design from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa. His research interests include exploring challenges to sustainable design, designing for sustainability in the context of climate change and an exploration into emerging sustainable advertising strategies. He works mostly in two research paradigms—interpretivism and pragmatism—which are driven by learning through participation.He has supervised 32 undergraduate projects which cover upcycling for promoting environmental sustainability, sustainable graphic design, social innovations for mitigating sustainability challenges and advertising campaigns for youth empowerment for inclusivity. He is an external examiner for Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa, where he serves as a visiting lecturer. He is also a visiting lecturer at the De Monfort University in Leicester, UK.He has attended a number of academic conferences in Ghana, South Africa and and UK. He has published articles in peer-reviewed international and Ghanaian journals. The published articles cut across design methods, advertising, graphic design and sustainability. He was part of the research team that worked on the C-Climate Futures (The South African-Norwegian research collaboration programme also known as SANCOOP funded by the Research Council of Norway and the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa). Currently, he is also team-member of researchers working on the DesignBrics project that is centred on design ecologies - an extension of the SANCOOP Project.During his doctoral studies, he was awarded a CPUT Research Fund and a CPUT Conference Fund. His problem-solving skills and hard work paved a way for being honoured by the Christain Service University College for outstanding innovative problem-solving skills staff in 2018. One of his latest work is a conference paper, titled "Using co-design as an inquiry tool into nomadic pedagogy for a Design+Ecology project. His recent publication is an article titiled: Re-echoing Afro socio-environmental sustainability philosophies: the purview of Ubuntu re-imagined through Adinkra symbols, which is published in African Identities Journal published by Routledge. He is currently working on developing mobile phone application for minimising post-harvest losses by connecting farmers to buyers and other means of transportation.
Adult and Continuing Education Topics
African cultural and philosophical studies
Consumer Packaging Perceptions and Trends
Crafts, Textile, and Design
Design Education and Practice
Digital Storytelling and Education
Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
Assessing the Relationship between Packaging Quality and Brand Preference among Consumers of Ghanaian Food and Pharmaceutical Products
Open AccessSome Insights into Communication Design Students’ E-Learning Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic in a University Setting
Re-echoing Afro socio-environmental sustainability philosophies: the purview of Ubuntu re-imagined through Adinkra symbols
An Exploration of Factors Affecting Students’ Choice of Career Paths in Communication Design
Open AccessSurviving the turbulence: a retrospective account of designed policies for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana
Transformative Learning in Design
Open AccessCreative Approaches for Mitigating Environmental Challenges: A Cosmopolitan Localism Perspective
Embracing cosmopolitan localism for sustainable graphic design practices
Design interventions for re-conceptualising sustainable graphic design practices in Ghana
Department of Communication Design
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology