STUDIO SESSION: Design for Education at CCA, June 2- August 2
STUDIO SESSION: Project H: Design for Education at the California College of Arts
San Francisco
June 2- August 2, 2008
Instructor: Emily Pilloton
Industrial design has traditionally been seen as a profession that creates everyday consumer objects. This course provides the unique opportunity to learn about industrial design while working on a real-life project that exemplifies how industrial design can be used to change the world. Based on two school case studies—a local Northern California public school district and a school for HIV/AIDS orphans in Southern Uganda, this course applies industrial design as a tool to address social issues and improve lives.
Project H: Design for Education is a studio-based collaboration between students, designers, educators, and elementary school children to design a globally-applicable educational product. Through individual, team, and class projects, students will research and frame a design problem in an elementary educational context, conceptualize potential solutions, review each others’ work, present ideas to guests and the public, and solidify a concept as a produceable and marketable product for the case study and wider-scale implementation.
Over the course of the project and beyond, students may have the opportunity to consult with actual manufacturers and retailers to explore the potential production and distribution of viable design solutions. Project H Design, as an organization, champions product design initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness, and will provide the umbrella for discussions and juried reviews with local product designers, teachers, children, and manufacturers. Design can change the world, and the Project H: Design for Education studio will work with that mantra in mind.
Check out the full course description on the CCA site here, and get information on how to register through CCA here.
