Class Info
- Date: Week 01
- Meeting Info: Review Schedule
To-Do Before Class
- Requesting membership to this Open Lab course.
- Download your own copy of IDEO’s Field Guide for Human-Centered Design and Learn Terminology
- Fill out the Student Survey
Bring to class, one sentence that answers this question.
- What is something you would like to change, make better, and /or fix in our society, NY, or the world?
Topic
- Orientation and course description.
- Objectives, Requirements
- Recommended texts
- Reading/homework expectations
- Grading
- What is the contemporary creative in today’s landscape?
- How does this course prep you for the Senior Project course?
Objectives
- Understand the role of the designer/creative as a concept generator.
- Understanding design research and building your design research capabilities.
- Explore ways to include more of yourself and your community in your creative work.
- Build better design techniques and practices.
- Explore tools/ways to exercise your creativity.
Lab-Miro Board
Activities
Students will be tasked with searching for a topic to spark their own research and uncover issues and problems within their local communities.
- What is Civic and Community Engagement?
- Create a community definition/topics that interest us.
- Design Sprints
- Topic Generation
- Defining a problem
- 5 Whys
- Root causes
- Share and Compare
Lecture
To-Do After Class / Homework
- Join Slack via the link in the sidebar.
- Read Field Guide to Human-Centered Design P9-28 then complete this Quiz.
- Get the Required BOOK.
Mini Group Research:
Go to the Week 1 Miro Colab board, pick one of six projects from SVA’s Design for Social Impact site, and create your own 3-person Team!
Self-select who on your team is Partner A, B, and C. Then, as a team, review the final presentation you selected and share your findings as a team in the next class. Collaborate and Create a mini-prez / document answering the question below with images and text. Present in next class. Be prepared to talk 🙂 Connect on Slack to collaborate.
- Partner A: What is the concept? How were we introduced to the idea? How did they show their research? Did it feel connected in the presentation?
- Partner B: What type of design outcomes were chosen, and how did they reflect the needs of the audience?
- Partner C: Why do you think it worked or didn’t work? What can be improved?
Project 01: Your Own Topic Research
Project 01: Based on in-class exercises, and your own answer to the topic question of What is something you would like to change, make better, and /or fix in our society, NY, or the world? Begin to research a topic that you would like to take on this semester, it is ok to take inspiration from ideas from class.
- Things to do:
- Explore your topic (brainstorm, mind map, and word associate)
- Create your own 5 WHYS to get the root cause of why your topic is happening and the main reason for it.
