51-675 Experimenting with Design: Methods for Research Innovation
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Explore, learn and develop a variety of tools and frameworks to use in conducting innovative forms of design research. Students will focus on deploying, evolving and designing new and experimental research methods for doing research through design, investigating human behavior across space in both physical and digital environments and time carrying out temporal and process based studies, and research by design, where they will explore methods in sensory ethnography, narrative form, idea generation, and making physical prototypes and provotypes. By the end of the course students will have grown an understanding of how methods from a number of disciplinary domains such as visual and cognitive anthropology, media studies, psychology, philosophy, and cybernetics can be used to inform different kinds of design research and practice, from speculative and critical design to participatory design, as well as developing the skills and experience necessary to innovate with, and deploy, those methods.
Prerequisites: none listed
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