PUIC
2101
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201130
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Faculty:
Patricia Beirne,
Denise Ramzy
This course explores the use of design processes to respond to complex problems. The task for designers is to research and map the interrelations between social groups, everyday practices and their material contexts. These maps then suggest sites where interventions can be made that will flow through the system, changing both built environments and the behaviors and attitudes of those who interact with them. Designers can prototype those interventions, honing their agency and value. Students will examine accounts of how expert designers think and work, and analyze these accounts against their own emerging practices. Students will explore how these concepts and how they can be integrated into of the basic design process, which includes those aspects related to business innovation and modeling. Students will produce a document of their process as the main component of course work along with a design proposal(s). Open to: IDC majors only
