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Design for Dignity is a studio course that addresses design problems with a focus on the concept of dignity as a central principle of human-centered design. This course affords opportunities for students to explore the ethical dimensions of design practice through readings, discussions, in-class activities, and design projects.
This course is grounded in rhetoric and offers students an opportunity to learn a human-centered design perspective in the complex context of interpersonal and group interactions.
This project seeks to create new strategies for productive co-working in cross-cultural teams.
The purpose of the Enriching Gifts project is to analyze gift culture and understand its pluralistic individual values and symbolic social meanings. The designer uses participatory design to analyze the gift to understand its pluralistic individual values and meanings.
The project Smooth Commuting develops a plan to redesign the Boston commuter rail system in order to mitigate the negative effects.
This class, led by professor Miso Kim, explores the nature of a system by addressing fundamental questions regarding the design practice: What is a system?
Students from Experience Design and Information Design & Visualization joined forces to explore ways to combine personal healthcare data and clinical information, seeking opportunities to improve our healthcare experience.
The studio course focused on the urban street as a context for investigation and the development of design interventions.
Estefania Chehade (MFA 2020), Jeremy Brodeur (MFA 2020) and Sylvia Zepeda (MS 2019) entered the competition with a goal of creating an interactive and participatory work that centered on the experience of playing hopscotch.
This course, led by Miso Kim, offers students an opportunity to develop competency with tools and models used to create experiences in the context of providing services.