54-832 Design for Spaces & Screen
4.5 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Mini 1: Design for Spaces, Mini 2: Design for Screen This course focuses on creating design for performance, and for this Mini will focus specifically on designing new work for the stage. Playwrights and designers will work collaboratively towards a shared understanding of each discipline's storytelling and world-building process. This is an opportunity for each writer to workshop the world of their script with designers just as they might workshop the text of the play in a reading with actors. Just as different actors and directors might interpret a text differently, so too will different designers; in this class, each play script will have multiple worlds created by randomly assigned design students. Designer-writer collaboration will encourage exploration of adaptive design and focus on developing design tools in areas such as: research, design conception, rendering model making, and storyboards. Playwrights will likewise explore responsive, collaborative approaches in their script revisions. The shared goal for both playwrights and designers is to conceive a world on stage in four dimensions: length, width, height, and most importantly time.
Prerequisites: none listed
Offered: Fall 2026, Fall 2025
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