Digital Design and Visualization II - Explorations of Design
During this course students continue to develop their visualization and design skills. They are introduced to three-dimensional modeling technology. They continue to study techniques to develop, document, and share their work. They also continue to investigate career opportunities related to the concepts that they explore in class. They continue to maintain and develop a portfolio of their design explorations.
During the course, each student will be situated in the role of a design historian or theorist. In this capacity, they reverse engineer significant design artifacts. The purpose of this process will be to reveal the possible logic of the original designers by deconstructing the design processes that they may have engaged in.
With this analysis in hand, students will then be situated in the role of designers. They will work in newly formed project teams to produce unique designs that share some qualities of the originally studied artifacts. They will then transition to scales that require an increasing level of detail where they will have the opportunity to work more independently.