51-178 Design Studies: Experience

5 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Experience explores how design touches peoples lives, and shapes their materials and non-material worlds. Through a series of lectures, viewings, and class discussions, we'll try to determine just what design is and what designers can do. We will explore contrasting definitions of design, and get to know it as an experientially-rich process. Well examine how users and audiences interact with what is designed, and debate the designers responsibility to consider what lies behind it. Coursework includes individual and team projects exploring design's role in shaping our experience of the world.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027, Spring 2026

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