Experience Design Studio

Posted: October 28, 2022

Graduate and Undergraduate students are invited to take ART 650: Experience Design Studio!

Context: Setting

Spring 2023

Asynchronous Hybrid (One Travel Weekend) | 3 Credit Hours | Repeatable

Design interventions that account for how external factors such as social norms, political climate, and physical environment impact people and communities.

Skills & Concepts: Research, prototyping, design thinking, personas, experience mapping, presentations and proposals, gigamapping, design for resilience, systems design, sustainability

Core Theory: Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland, 1981)

Deep Dive Text: Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Meadows, 2008)

Zion National Park, Utah

Travel to Zion National Park for one weekend to study design on-site!

The Natural Environment: Explore how the National Park Service designs its service at Zion to protect the natural experience and enable access for over four million visitors each year.

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