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Context, Concept, Input, Interaction: Investigative Living
This second-year design studio explores creative practices that are built around ideas of investigative and communal living, and asks how intentional communities can address contemporary social issues while providing spaces where individuals can thrive. The design project transforms a former warehouse into a multi-generation,multi-family live-work space for dwelling and artmaking. Spring 2022 | University of…
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Research Methods for Designers
In this course, students learn how to cultivate a thoughtful research agenda while situating their work and its contribution within the broader landscape of scholarship. Topics cover the full life-cycle of the research process, including: identifying a research question; evaluating justification and significance; developing a conceptual framework; implementing a work plan; gathering, managing, and analyzing…
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People, Spaces, Experiences, Politics: Music in/and Space
Music has been written for and performed in all sorts of spaces, including helicopters and parks. How does the presence of music create interiors of sound independently of, and with, architecture? This 2nd-year design studio explored the spatial, social, cultural, and communal dimensions of music as it relates to interior space. In a series of…
