DEST 200 S001: Design Studies: Indigenous Practices

ECIAD
SectionS001
TermSpring 2026
StatusC
DatesJan 12, 2026 – Apr 23, 2026
LocationIn Person
Meetings
  • Tue 3:25pm–6:15pm — MAIN B3130
Description (ECIAD)Through Indigenous-centred critical readings, story-telling, presentations, class discussions, and student project work, students will develop a deeper understanding of challenges, techniques, skills, and contemporary discourses and how their design practices might counter, contribute, confront, or mediate rising issues. As a practice-based design study course, students will synthesize Indigenous concepts with design practices, resulting in projects such as written case studies, annotated process books and portfolios, curated exhibitions of work, self-published booklets/zines, information graphics/design, material studies and prototypes, or narrative architecture.