| Description | Students will focus on their independent thesis
project as the primary focus of the semester.
Applying primary research conducted over the
summer, students will develop their design,
realized as some form of prototype/model for user
testing. Outcomes include a public presentation
of the thesis project early in the semester, and
a substantially completed project by the end of
the semester. Thesis projects may be
experimental, research-oriented, educational or
pragmatic, but remain directly relevant to the
discipline of a design practice. The thesis
project is an opportunity to demonstrate at an
advanced level the integration of knowledge
represented by the discipline of designing. The
thesis project may exist as a designed artifact,
service or system, environmental intervention,
meaningful communication, media presentation, or
any interactive adaption of the above. The thesis
project is comprised of a production in some
medium as well as a written component that
progressively situates the production in and
reflects on context. These two components - an
innovation through media and the written
contextualization of such a process, comprise the
thesis project. |
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