Class Components

Class Sessions

The class will meet online for two scheduled class sessions per week. These class sessions will include a combination of discussions, case study presentations, interactive team exercises, and design studio working sessions.

Participation in these Class Sessions is Required

As a member of our design studio, you are expected to attend all class sessions in person. So, while much of your project work will be completed outside of class time, you are expected to attend all class sessions in person at the scheduled class times.

Design Projects

The class is organized into a series of design projects — each of which will give you an opportunity to exercise and apply your design thinking skills to a design and propose a solution that promotes sustainable behaviors and practices.

Each design project will each require about 8-9 hours of work per week outside of the class sessions.

You’ll be creating and sharing proposed design ideas that:

meet the needs that you or your team identifies
illustrate your strategy for approaching the challenges and opportunities you uncover
demonstrate your application of the design thinking process
make a measurable impact on improving sustainable behaviors and practices

Weekly Consulting and Problem-Solving Sessions

We’ll also host weekly consulting / problem-solving sessions, which will give you an opportunity to interact with the studio mentors and discuss the challenges that you’re finding as you work on your projects in a more direct, focussed format.

Testing and Grading

The class will not have any exams. Your class grade will be determined by: