Welcome to Ideation & Prototyping!
In this class, the creative process will be investigated in order to generate ideas for art, design, technology, and business endeavors. The course will show how ideation, design research & thinking, and prototyping can inspire, inform, and bring depth to what one ultimately creates. Students will expand their arsenal of design research skills, learn how to think critically about their audience, content, form, and processes, as well as, understand the importance of utilizing more than one research and design strategy.
PROGRAM GOALS
-The following Integrated Digital Media program goals are introduced and reinforced within this course. Students will:
– develop conceptual thinking skills to generate ideas and content in order to solve
problems or create opportunities.
-develop a research and studio practice through inquiry and iteration.
-develop critical thinking skills that will allow them to analyze and position their work
within cultural, historical, aesthetic, economic, and technological contexts.
-develop collaboration skills to actively and effectively work in a team or group.
COURSE GOALS
To get students to:
-develop a rigorous, iterative process for looking, questioning, thinking, making, and
-communicating that challenges assumptions and preconceived ideas
-use their imagination to create something entirely new & innovative OR to reinvent an old idea into something new
-introduce students to the many research & design methodologies available to them develop skills of description, research, analysis, visualization, design and critical thinking.
-improve writing, documentation, and presentation skills
-facilitate collaboration
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this course students should be able to:
to search and spot ideas, and transform these invisible ideas into visible realizations