Green Design

Semester and Year	SU 2012
Course Number	ARTS-UG1616
Section	001
Instructor	Mitchell Joachim
Days	Mon,Wed
Time	5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Units	4.0
Level	U
Foundation Requirement

Notes/Restrictions

Session I: May 21-June 29.

Description

This workshop aims to impart skills and theories essential to intelligent green design, an environmentally sensitive practice applicable to all products, materials, and buildings. Students will complete a sequence of assignments starting with a survey of ecological methods that will lead to the discovery of significant intentions in eco-design. Each student will generate a journal of diagrams, schemes, and ideas to investigate fundamental considerations such as food, water, air, waste, technology, ecology, energy, form, context, and light. A subsequent workshop project will be the design of an environmental entity or scheme for the near future based on a predefined anti-anthropocentric agenda and the students’ own green conceptual framework. Class reviews will discuss intricate propositions such as eco-effectiveness, social value, meaning of nature, life-cycle, function, economy, and policy. Other design/communication issues will be analyzed as well, including balance, aesthetics, modularity, assembly, and fabrication. Students will be expected to present their ideas in mock-ups, scaled models, schematics, lifestyle drawings, and other forms of imaging. Thus, as they create and develop their own original design proposals, students will experiment with a variety of techniques and forms of representation including collage, sketches, advertisements, film, prints, signage, photography, or other pictorial aids. The final project will be individually based on each student’s abilities and scholarly pursuit. Prior knowledge of computer design tools is suggested, but not required.

Course Type

Arts Workshops (ARTS-UG)