design for science

How might budding researchers use design to create innovative means of data collection, to develop new lines of research, and to more effectively communicate their work? How might designers and artists generate work that opens up scientific discovery to new audiences?

In Design for Science, we will create projects aimed at publication in scientific journals or exhibition in science museums. You will form teams, consisting of at least one student in the sciences and one in design or the arts, to focus on a quarter-long project. We will incorporate design thinking to help guide project development.

This course meets every other week during Winter quarter. It is primarily a studio course with guest speakers who seed ideas and inspiration. Together, we will share project progress and co-create a digital resource related to course topics.

Applications due by midnight on January 3, 2012.

We encourage you to apply to the course as part of a team and with initial project concepts. Other interested and qualified students may come to the first day of class to explore the possibility of finding collaborators or joining an existing project.