Introduction to Visual Arts: Drawing on Nature
This course utilizes observational studies in Biology (Yen) with fine art and architectural drawing techniques (Duncan) to explore, draw and understand the world around you. Field trips to botanical gardens or zoos are often incorporated as subject matter for observation and as a source of inspiration for drawings.
Offered Fall 2017: Duncan | Yen
User Centered Design
This course is a primer on user research and design through visual ethnography. It explores empathy and interviewing techniques to better understand users and their implicit needs. Building on a foundation of social sciences (psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology), this course asks students to explore the human condition and document their newfound understanding through film-making, interactive storytelling, and improvisational acting.
Offered Fall 2017: Li
This is a senior, capstone level course co-taught between the Schools of Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering. This project based course will cover aspects of transportation design and the social issues related with transportation. Note: this is a studio based, multi-disciplinary course with a significant time commitment (both lecture and practice).
Offered Fall 2017: Li | Sprigle
Prototyping Practices for Innovation
Prototypes are typically thought of as nearly complete products or technologies which are used to conduct system, alpha, or beta testing near the end of development process. This course is designed to expand on the idea of prototyping and teach how to employ a variety of tools as methods to inspire, contextualize, evaluate, and inform any phase of any research or product development endeavor.
Offered Fall 2017: Stehle | Li
Your Idea, Your Invention
A GT1000 introductory course to the Create-X initiative. It covers creativity and cognitive thinking skills, introduces the design process and allows student teams to work on potential project ideas.
Offered Spring 2018: Vito | Newstetter | Li
One of two foundational courses for the Serve.Learn.Sustain initiative, this course seeks to introduce first principles in community engagement and sustainable systems through an ethnographic (anthropology) and design lens. Case studies, field trips, and assignments will reflect on sustainability issues (water, food, resource conservation, are all possible topics).
Offered Fall 2017: Zegura | Khan
A project-based course in sustainable systems and product design. A multi-disciplinary survey of sustainability topics and tools in life cycle analysis, systems modeling and design.
Offered Spring 2018: Telenko
Citizens of the developed world recognize that they live in an age of growing globalization, but tend to overlook the fact that over 80% of this world lives in conditions very different from theirs. Half the human population lives on less than USD 2.50 per day – a monthly income of less than USD 75. In this course, students will be encouraged to examine the interplay between technological systems, economic activities, social structures, and cultural practices in the lives of ‘the poor’.
Offered Fall 2017: Kumar
Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship. This course serves as an introduction to social entrepreneruship and humanitarian design. It is a great foundation course for the Ideas 2 Serve competition. The course covers working in the field through empathy, ethnographic study, and building sustainable business models around a deep understanding of the context of the landscape. An excellent class for for socially minded entreprenuers, humanitarian designers, "engineers without borders" members, and other students who want to have a high social impact through their creations.
Offered Fall 2017: Dori Pap
Designing for Shared Values. This course combines branding and marketing strategies with ethnography and user centered design techniques in order to create sustainable business models. There will be a client sponsored project at the end of the semester to create a business model that serves a societal need, using the techniques taught in the course.
Offered Fall 2017: Villa | Li
This course, cross-listed with ID4813, examines storytelling and narrative structures through interactive media. Students will be asked to research gameplay genres, and build interactive experiences. Students will have access to the Interactive Products Laboratory to design, create, and execute interactive games (board, card, video etc).
Fall 2017: Madej
This course deals with the various methods that designers utilize in fundamentally understanding users and their interactions with products, experiences or services. Methods such as stakeholder identification and analysis, need-finding, social ethnography, videography, as well as introductions in the behavioral and social sciences (i.e., psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc.) will all be introduced, but magnified through a design lens. Techniques will require actual demonstration and documentation.
Offered Fall 2017: Spoerke
User Centered Design
This course is a primer on user research and design through visual ethnography. It explores empathy and interviewing techniques to better understand users and their implicit needs. Building on a foundation of social sciences (psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology), this course asks students to explore the human condition and document their newfound understanding through film-making, interactive storytelling, and improvisational acting.
Offered Fall 2017: TBD
Offered Fall 2017: Sanchez | Lewis
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