Design Center: Collaboration by Design

Catalog description

In Collaboration by Design, we'll be working on improving the ways we collaborate. Through this hybrid seminar/project-based studio, we'll explore ideas to improve collaboration in formal and informal contexts, along with intra-, inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinary settings. We'll be exploring how issues such as personal values and goals, intimacy and independence, team dynamics, constructive criticism, and others affect the way we work together. Students can expect reading assignments, class discussion, informal (low stakes) writing projects and presentations, and team-based exercises and projects in which we share and apply our learning and develop ideas. Note: students taking this course will help set the topics and curricular trajectory for the course in collaboration with the instructor, so from day one we'll start the work of defining what we'll do, together.