51-834 Experimental Form
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
The Experimental Form Studio looks broadly at the discipline of industrial design with an emphasis on creating new paradigms for interactive objects. This advanced formgiving course encourages an exploratory study of physical objects and provides a creative and intellectual forum to reimagine objects through a lens of interaction. Each independentlythemed project presents opportunities to consider embedded mechanics and technology, objects as interactive media, and experiencedriven design. Experimental Form, at its most basic, is a process that blends play and inquiry in an openended way finding the unexpected through tinkering and trying something you dont quite know how to do, guided by imagination and curiosity. In this sense, Experimental Form complements the core Product Design Studio sequence by providing a playground for intellectual discourse, experimental trial and error, and refining individual processes for designing. This is your sandbox. 51834 is crosslisted and is synchronous with the undergraduate section 51434. Open to MDes, MArch, MSCComputational Design, and MIIPS, by instructor permission only. Priority given to those with industrial design undergraduate degrees andor professional ID experience. MDes students must have taken the appropriate prototyping course in the School of Design. Students outside the School of Design must have access to a prototyping lab and proper training in their home department.
Prerequisites: none listed
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