| Description | The discourse within and about methods in design
has become a highly active and fertile field.
Students will enter into the discourse about
practice through exposure to the theoretical
literature, as well as through the research about
designing. The objective will be to develop a
personal capacity to use design methods
systematically to generate superior insight and
understanding of problem spaces and solution
potentials from both the need side and the
affordance side.
The student will learn to merge design methods
within their thesis project work plan.
Familiarity with the range of approaches
(methodology) will permit the student to develop
the particular framework, tools and procedures
(methods) that can realize the type of knowledge
he or she is pursuing. The development of these
means will flow directly into the end
deliverables that constitute the student's
program, in particular the thesis project and its
exposition. The design methods developed in this
course describe the path that the student is
taking in the thesis project. The writing and
diagramming of that path will be a major part of
the written exposition that complements studio
production in the mediums of choice. |
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