AGENCY, ETHICS, AND ISSUES IN DESIGN SEMINAR COURSE

Teaching

Apr 5

Agency, Ethics, Issues in Design Seminar

The conversation in and around design increasingly deals with larger social concerns: inequality, consumption, diversity, climate, media, etc. This course provided students an opportunity to explore agency (what might we do) and ethics (how might we do) in the context of these contemporary issues. Through reading, discussion, and projects, students worked to articulate their relationship with these issues and formulate responses both large and utopian and small and concrete.

View PDFs of specific student projects:

Makeda Allen – Public awareness campaign to address gentrification and housing affordability

Lisa Patusky – Proposal for greening urban rooftops

Michelle Rosenstein – Workplace wellness through resource kit exchange program

Nicole Flynn – Creating intersectional spaces for placemaking and spatial justice

Justin Lee - A future subterranean residence

Collaborators: Various students