Our Fall 2022 Meeting schedule.

We’ll meet every Wednesday at 2:30 pm from Septembner1st – May 24th. The only exception is when school is closed on Feb 15th + Mar 28th.

If we ever need to, we will have classes via Zoom, class link: I will info you all via Blackboard and Openlanb

Week 1

Meeting Info above.

Topic: Orientation and course description: objectives, requirements, recommended texts, reading/homework expectations, grading. The Role of the Contemporary Designer.

  • Activities: Students will be tasked with searching for a topic to spark their own research and begin to discover issues and problems within their local communities.
  • Homework: Research topics in civic and community engagement to spark an initial concept.

Week 2

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: Break down research techniques and introduce this idea of human-centered design. How to present your research findings.
  • Activities: Review initial student ideas in mini-group sessions, evaluate direction, and provide feedback for topic clarification.
  • Homework: After feedback, find a clearer understanding of the topic to prepare to share findings with the class.

Week 3

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: How do designers learn empathy? What is the importance of ethnographic research?
  • Activities: Students present their initial findings to the class.
  • Homework:

Week 4

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: How do you uncover specific creative solutions? What are persona(s) and how to use them in your research?
  • Activities: Students present their initial findings to the class. (continued)
  • Homework:

Week 5

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: Discuss competitive sets and opportunities for this creative solution.
  • Activities: Students present their secondary findings in the class and share how the research is informing their concept.
  • Homework: Prepare a creative brief for the next class. State your creative challenge, strategy, concept, audience, and way to address the issue. (ideas are still in rough form)

Week 6

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: What is the creative brief and how is it used to establish the framework for your research summary pitch
  • Activities: Begin Research for Senior Project. Explore ideas and discover opportunities.
  • Homework: Midterm research summary presentation.

Week 7

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: Midterm research summary presentation.
  • Activities: All students present an 8-minute summary of their research and what they plan to do for their project.

Week 8-9

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: Show techniques to break out of the norms of conceiving a creative direction.
  • Activities: Students use groupthink methods to discuss, review, and provide feedback to each other.
  • Homework: Continue to explore via research and show progress.

Week 10

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: Use to discuss finalize output and techniques. Review project process books.
  • Activities: Students present mockup ideas for creative solutions with an understanding of the message, intention, connection, and media outlet diversity.
    • Also, submit the first draft of their senior project proposal paper
  • Homework: Continue to explore via research and show progress.

Week 11-13

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: Use to discuss finalize output and techniques. Review project process books.
  • Activities: Students use this as production time to finalize and check in to get final feedback.
  • Homework: Continue to explore via research and show progress.

Week 13

Day & Date

  • Activities: Submit research papers for your Senior Project ideas. Include a process book and all accompanying research.

Week 14-15

Day & Date

  • Meeting Info above.
  • Topic: Final presentation of creative work to class and other faculty.
  • Activities: All work needs to be presentation ready to communicate clearly and convincingly your concept and support solution. Include a process book and all accompanying research.

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