final projects
in the last weeks of class you’ll be developing your final projects into something relevant and memorable. the projects should:
use one or more critical design methods covered in class (materials, detechnologizing, sustainability, body-ness, open source, ethnography, kinetics)
be blogworthy (relevant)
be provocative
be experiential
be presented persuasively
your can produce:
a working prototype
a PR campaign (i.e. artifact, video, text, graphic)
a proof-of-concept
a process (i.e. instructable)
a system (i.e. webpage)
here are some of the projects we mentioned for inspiration:
james patten’s corporate fallout detector
saul griffith’s low cost eyeglasses
mckinley and csikszentmihalyi’s government information awareness