| Description | This seminar provides students with a broad
historical, critical, and theoretical context
within which to understand the trajectory of
contemporary designing, and in particular, the
emergence of new fields such as transformation
design. By exploring the shift from traditional
disciplines to hybrid practices aimed at
reshaping culture and society, design is being
transformed both from within and outside the
practice. In this course we examine the
implications of design decisions; the ways that
design changes the world and the way the world
changes design. Through a
review of the literature and case studies that
have impacted behavior or cultural change,
students will learn about the capabilities of
transformation design, its poetics and
positioning, its meta or expanding nature
necessitated by the wicked problems of the 21st
century, and its evolution into a critical,
social, economic and ethical agent for change. |
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