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  • Alternative Futures
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    Alternative Futures

    Hazal Gumus Ciftci Arizona State University ‘Wearable Technologies for Well Being’ is a project for which the students first gather trends and imagine futures, to then set limitations and criteria for design development. The project invites students to critically think about emerging technologies and the future, as students are expected to develop an understanding ofContinue…

  • Homegrown
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    Homegrown

    Pantawat Tongrod University of Cincinnati, MA Design Y1 Process The industrial Design studio called ‘Homegrown’ exposes students to the design process from research to ideation all the way to small batch production. The studio allows students with the flexibility to work at their own pace but also pushes them to plan for their own timeline,Continue…

  • Global Artisan
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    Global Artisan

    Yvonne Watson Parsons School of Design, BFA Fashion Design I developed and teach a class called ‘Global Artisan’ (The alternative Supply Chain). Pre-pandemic I offered the students an opportunity for an in-field study experience. We worked together with a women’s’ textile cooperative in Cuso, Peru, with the aim to have the students support the co-opContinue…

  • VR Classroom of the Future
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    VR Classroom of the Future

    Martin Murphy Ringling College of Art & Design, VRD 2nd year In our second year of Virtual Reality Development, students conceptualized, inventoried learning activities and visualized a new classroom that would support the instruction of virtual reality design. The assignment used a building that was actively being designed by an architectural firm for the universityContinue…

  • Color Walk: Color in Context
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    Color Walk: Color in Context

    Luanne Stovall University of Austin, Upper-Level Graduate Color is not constant or  objectively ‘true’. Color perception varies with i.e., lighting conditions and viewer perception. Design students need to consider the context of where and how color appears as central to their design process. To develop awareness on the interactions of color within an environmental context,Continue…

  • Fear & (C) loathing
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    Fear & (C) loathing

    Ellen McCartney California Inst. of the Arts, BFA 1 Experience Design & Production Design Year 1 n a class titled Fear and (C)loathing, students explore five topics that trigger emotional reactions, and those responses are being expressed throughout the creation of a dress. The topics they explore are War and Sports, Biological and Artificial, Spiritual,Continue…

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