[bioundgrd] Fwd: Three NEW undergraduate design subjects offered this spring!

[Janice Chang]

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From: Renee A Caso <yammie at mit.edu<mailto:yammie at mit.edu>>
Subject: Three NEW undergraduate design subjects offered this spring!
Date: January 29, 2016 at 12:34:13 PM EST

Dear undergrads:

There are 3 new DESIGN SUBJECTS at MIT!

What is design? How does it shape our world? How do you design well? How is design changing? How can you help determine the future of design?

We are pleased to announce that there are three new Design subjects being offered this semester. Together they try to answer those questions. Each class looks at design in a unique way. Each class addresses different issues of scale, materials, design process, technology, and production through hands on projects. They look beyond architecture to the cutting edge of design, technology, and production. Topics range from making, fabrication and product design to and data visualization. The classes are taught by industry leaders and academics, each a specialist in their discipline. Come learn about what is happening in the design world, discover how design can change the world, and then join students and faculty in determining how design is defined in the 21st century.

No prerequisites (only curiosity)! All levels welcome!

To learn more about these new subjects, please join us for presentations by the instructors:

Monday: February 1 from 4-6:30PM
RM 7-429 (Long Lounge)

Hope to see you at the presentations and on the first day of class!

For immediate gratification, please see the individual course descriptions below for more information.




4.101 Exploring Design: Thinking Through Making<http://architecture.mit.edu/subjects?semesterxx=559>

This class introduces students to the creative design process through acts of making & breaking. The studio environment provides a dynamic laboratory to explore ideas related to form, space, materials, systems, and structures through physical, project-based activities. This class emphasizes the translation of concepts into constructs--thinking through making, and making through thinking. This course is specifically created to play off of student’s non-design education by introducing a domain of investigation whereby student’s can learn to design through the lens of cross-disciplinary experimentation. Three primary exercises will help develop student’s techniques of drawing, fabricating and building.

Instructors: Skylar Tibbits, Jessica Rosencrantz + Caitlin Mueller

Units: 9

T 3-4:30PM

R 3-4:30PM

RM 7-434



4.S10 Design Objects<http://architecture.mit.edu/subject/spring-2016-4s10>

This course is an introduction to the design of objects — the products, furniture, and other everyday accoutrements that shape our modern daily experience — and the role technology plays in design. Students will follow the path from project to product through lectures, hands-on workshops, and studio assignments, and will learn how to work with materials, fabrication, electronics and programming. Topics covered will include: observation and critique of design; design methodologies, representation, and source material; user interaction and experience; rapid prototyping strategies; the relationship between design and art; serial production and distribution; limited editions and one-offs; and the interplay between industry and craftsmanship. Readings and lectures will provide a technical foundation to enable students to create their products, as well as a foundation in the historical movements and current dialogues in the design, production, and significance of objects.

Instructors: Lisa Smith + Marcelo Coelho

Units: 12

W 3-5 PM

F  1-5 PM

RM 7-434



4.S50 Architectural Computation: Information Design<http://architecture.mit.edu/subject/spring-2016-4s50>

We’ll never have less data. Design plays a central role in how we can take massive amounts of data and make sense of it, convey it to others, dig deeper into it, learn from it, and think criticially about it. This course introduces working with data for exploration and explanation. We’ll mix history and theory of information with a series of projects that apply the ideas directly. Starting with basic data analysis, we’ll move to visual design and presentation, followed by more sophisticated interaction techniques. Topics include storytelling and narrative, choosing representations, understanding audiences, and the role of designers working with data. Experience with code and/or design preferred, but not expected or required.

Instructor: Ben Fry

Units: 12

T 9:30-10:30AM

R 9:30-11:30AM

RM 5-232 (first meeting in 1-135)



Marlene Kuhn
Director of Special Initiatives
MIT Department of Architecture
9-222 | 650.745.6494











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