Design Issues

Catalog description

The course will introduce students to current and emerging issues impacting the built environment from a human-centered design perspective and the role of information gathering to inform evidence-based design solutions. Course content will include investigatory techniques to support research inspired design programming including qualitative and quantitative data gathering methods with special focus on research, oral, visual, and written communication. Research topics will investigate current and emerging issues that are shaping contemporary society from a human-centered design perspective. At the completion of this course, students will understand varied physical, behavioral, psychological, cultural, and social interactions contextualizing human experience in the built environment and methods of gathering, distilling, and communicating information for application in the design process.