This team-taught theme-based design studio allows for varying degrees of concentration in 2D and 4D Design studies. Community-based and collaborative projects enable students to identify appropriate and preferred design practices, and synthesize these design approaches within print, video, film, digital media, and environmental contexts. Core design skills from previous semesters are the basis for innovative and creative risk-taking that embraces the design process and expands terrain between disciplines including: design research, marketing, ethnographic considerations; conceptual and creative skills; participatory design, cognitive and usability factors; writing for proposals and reports; oral presentations and visualization. Students develop autonomous and individual design practices, with the aim to increase independent approaches to methodologies and design practice in the final semesters of study.

Priority is given to COMD students in Year 3. Students outside of the registration priority group may register/waitlist for this course as of the registration rule release date.