Advanced Product Design Studio

Catalog description

Students explore projects programmed under the previous semester IARC 815 Advanced Studio Programming. Projects must be relevant in a contemporary socio-cultural, architectural and technological context; employ rigorous design research processes and methodologies; identify user and usability needs/desires; accommodate market opportunities and constraints; explore multiple conceptual solutions in a variety of hand and digital media; build and document models and prototypes; and estimate material and manufacturing costs. A book, oral and visual presentation, and display materials for exhibition of the student's work will be required at the completion of the course.