Class Info

To-Do Before Class

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

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!

Select who on your team is Partner A, B, and C. Then as a team, review the final presentation you selected and share findings as a team in the next class. Create a mini-prez / document answering the question below with images and text. Present in next class. Be prepared to talk 🙂 Use the Slack group to collaborate via the dedicated Group Channels

  • 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
    • Create your own 5 WHYS to get the root cause of why your topic is happening and the main reason for it.
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