Prototyping Studio

This upper-level course draws upon foundational design skills from studio prerequisites to explore form-making through physical prototypes. We first analyzed an archetype (e.g, stool, table, sawhorse), then worked to develop concepts, uses, and formal qualities to be tested on our own design. The iterative process included material studies, physical and digital model-making, and constructed fabrication drawings that inform individual projects at full scale. Understanding design as inseparable from making was central to this course.