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title: Design Studio 02
page_type: course
track: Application
course_type: Course
course_type: Studio
feature_img: /assets/images/2024-25/year-1/t-2/design-studio-02.png
img_caption: MDEF Design Interventions, Barcelona
faculty:
- guillem-camprodon
- laura-benitez
- tomas-diez
- jana-tothill
- roger-guilemany
ects: 12
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title: Design Studio 02
page_type: course
track: Application
course_type: Course
feature_img: /assets/images/2024-25/year-1/t-2/design-studio-02.png
img_caption: MDEF Design Interventions, Barcelona
faculty:
- guillem-camprodon
- laura-benitez
- tomas-diez
- jana-tothill
- roger-guilemany
ects: 12
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**TERM 2 Design**: Forming the present through interventions in the real world. Building the foundations of your design space, forming strategic partnerships. Applying knowledge into practice through iterative prototyping. Testing ideas and prototypes in the real world.

TERM 3 Development: Refining interventions and identifying desirable futures. Establishing roadmaps for the construction of emergent narratives.. Communicating and disseminating your project through speculative design.
**TERM 3 Development**: Refining interventions and identifying desirable futures. Establishing roadmaps for the construction of emergent narratives. Communicating and disseminating your project through speculative design.

**The Second Term Design Studio** aims to refine the work developed by students during the first term of the Master program. After identifying areas of interest from weak signals in the first term, and creating their design space and first interventions, students will be encouraged to take a further step into their projects, focusing on finding and growing their communities of practice and developing interventions in the real world (digital or physical).


## When
Monday's
## Learning Objectives
The specific goals are the following:
- Further explore areas of interests identified in Term I
- Involve others to become part of their design processes
- Bring forth design interventions with their communities of practice to explore an area of interest.
- Reflect on the becoming, outputs and outcomes of design activities

## Keywords: Design Interventions, Community of Practice, Prototyping, 1st Person Research through Design, Design Space, Documentation and Communication


## Schedule

### 09/01 Kick off - Reframing by reflecting on your project so far
We suggest engaging in an average of four collective design interventions this term, but naturally it can change depending on the project, the evolution or the student’s personal circumstances. The number four is a guideline.

=== "08/01"

**Goals:** Critically look back at your project, reflect on the feedback from the Design Dialogues, and propose a new scope, goals and next steps.
**Collective design intervention: a collective design action with humans and/or non-humans - Jana & Roger**

**Activity:** Briefly present in class 3 of the main learning points from the 1st trimester.
**Goals:** Critically look back at your project, reflect on the feedback from the Design Dialogues, and propose a new scope, goals and next steps.

**Assignment:** Reflect on your and your project’s current stage of development allowing your project to talk back. Analyze your so-called “failures” as opportunities for redefining your frames of reference and repositioning yourself and your project accordingly.
**Activity:** Briefly present in class 3 of the main learning points from the 1st trimester.

**Deliverable:** An updated version of your design space. A 500 word text with a summary of your journey so far, adding the repositioning of yourself and your project. Make explicit new project goals and next steps including a proposal for the 1st intervention of the second trimester (a draft will be discussed during the design reviews the week after).
**Assignment:** Reflect on your and your project’s current stage of development allowing your project to talk back. Analyze your so-called “failures” as opportunities for redefining your frames of reference and repositioning yourself and your project accordingly.

### 16/01 Design Studio Reviews (individual)
**Deliverable:** An updated version of your design space. A 500 word text with a summary of your journey so far, adding the repositioning of yourself and your project. Make explicit new project goals and next steps including a proposal for the 1st intervention of the second trimester (a draft will be discussed during the design reviews the week after).

### 23/01 A 1PP Design intervention in context. Look for your peers and communities. Analyze and make sense of a 1PP Design Action.
=== "20/01"

**Goals:** Understand yourself better as a design tool in contexts, learn how to properly document, analyze and make sense of a design action from a 1PP.
**20/01 Exploring alternative presents in context. Look for your peers and communities and make sense of a 1PP Design Action. Expand the boundaries of your interventions - Jana & Roger**

**Activity 1:** Briefly present in class an updated version of the design space and a proposal for the 1st intervention of the second trimester.
**Goals:** Understand yourself better as a design tool in contexts, learn how to properly document, analyze and make sense of a design action from a 1PP. Explore your biographies and analyze your way of drifting in order to make sense of the alternative present you are creating.

**Activity 2:** Plan your first design intervention of the term and map the actors and infrastructure you want to involve.
**Activity 1:** Briefly present in class an updated version of the design space and a proposal for the 1st intervention of the second trimester.

**Task:** Carry out your 1st design intervention from a 1PP (involving yourself in the context you want to work on).
**Activity 2:** Analyze the evolution of your design space to reflect on your way of drifting to envision your future biography by means of an alternative present.

**Deliverable 1:** Document the 1PP design intervention, analyze it and reflect on the findings. Describe the alternative present scenario that this intervention is offering.
**Activity 3:** Plan your first design intervention of the term and map the actors and infrastructure you want to involve.

**Deliverable 2:** Update your design with the relations you have built.
**Task:** Carry out your 1st design intervention from a 1PP with your community of practice (involve yourself in the context you want to work on).

### 30/01 Network of co-responsibility. (Co-)designing for emergent futures in the present.
**Deliverable 1:** Document the design intervention, analyze it and reflect on the findings.

**Goals:** Reflect on your network of co-responsibility. Voicing others: A 1PP Design intervention in context giving the stage to your peers and communities (human and non-humans). Let the human and non-human actors be a driving force in your project.
**Deliverable 2:** Map, visualize and analyze the evolution of your design space based on ways of drifting and reflect on the trajectories you might want to project. Create a narrative in relation to your alternative present.

**Activity:** Present your results from your 1PP design intervention. Reflect on how you can iterate this intervention, this time allowing others to take the lead.
=== "03/02"

**Task:** Plan and execute a 2nd design intervention, a collective design intervention with this perspective.
**03/02 Being thorough with your Research - Toni Llàcer**

**Deliverable:** Document the 2nd collective design intervention, analyze it and reflect on the findings.
**Goals:**
- Emphasize the importance of rigor and depth in design research to inform interventions.
- Introduce methods for collecting, analyzing, and organizing data to strengthen research outcomes.
- Highlight strategies for linking insights to actions, ensuring research is actionable and grounded in real-world contexts.
- Foster critical reflection on the research process, encouraging students to question assumptions and biases.

**Deliverable 2:** Update your design space with the relations you have built.
**Activity:**
TBD

=== "12/02"
**Task:**
- Plan and execute a design intervention using the opportunity given with the micro challenge, to use research insights to inform the approach.
- Document and analyze the intervention, focusing on how research guided the decisions and outcomes.

:fontawesome-solid-bolt-lightning: **Design Studio Reviews**
**Deliverable 1:**
*One step further than the video: Intervention Report*
A detailed document that includes:
- Research methods used.
- Key findings and insights.
- Analysis of how findings influenced the design intervention.
- Reflection on what worked, what didn’t, and areas for improvement.

=== "19/02"

**Radical Situatedness: Considering the resilience, material flows, situated knowledges and existing infrastructures of your interventions**
**Deliverable 2:**
*Updated Design Space*: Visual or conceptual updates based on new findings and relationships built during the intervention.

*Laura Benitez*

**Goals**: Understand how your intervention can become resilient, taking into consideration self-sufficiency, locality and situated knowledges. Understand the agency of the environment you are working in.
=== "17/02"

**Activity 1**: Present your results from your 2nd design intervention.
**The Ethics of Making: Accountability in Design Practices - Toni Navarro y Alejandra Lopez Gabrieliris**

**Activity 2**: Resilience Assessment. What is your project relying on?
**Goals**:
- Explore the ethical dimensions of design and its impact on emergent futures.
- Develop a critical perspective as a foundational skill for analyzing and questioning assumptions, frameworks, and contexts.
- Emphasize the importance of commitment and thoroughness in the design process, highlighting accountability and sustained effort.
- Equip students with tools to integrate ethics into their interventions, ensuring designs advocate for equity, sustainability, and resilience.

**Task**: Plan and execute a 3nd design intervention, a collective design intervention taking into account this perspective.

**Deliverable 1**: Document the final design intervention, analyze it and reflect on the findings.
**Activity**: TBD

**Task**:
- Develop a short manifesto or set of principles outlining your ethical commitments as a designer.
- Reflect on your current project, identifying areas where ethical considerations can be strengthened or reframed.


**Deliverable 1**: Visual or conceptual map showing the relationship between your design values, ethical commitments, and project goals.

**Deliverable 2**: Carry out your design intervention. Analyse it, reflect on the findings.

**Deliverable 2**: Update your design space with the relations you have built.

### 27/02 Design Studio Reviews

### 06/03 Exploring alternative presents: Expanding the boundaries of your interventions.

=== "26/02"

:fontawesome-solid-bolt-lightning: **Design Studio Reviews**
=== "03/03"

=== "04/03"
**Designing Transitions: Navigating Wicked Problems for Sustainable Future - Holon, Markel Cormenzana/Adrià Garcia**

**Design Dialogues II Preparation**
**Goals**:
- Introduce students to Transition Design, a transdisciplinary approach for addressing wicked problems and catalyzing transitions to more sustainable, equitable and desirable long-term futures.
- Understand the agency of your interventions and the theory of change you are bringing forth.

*Alejandra Tothill*
**Activity 1**: Present your previous design intervention.

**Goals**: Create a collective and individual building up plan for the Design Dialogues exhibition.
**Activity 2**: TBD - Understand the Socio-Technical Transition(s) your actions are activating

**Task**: Plan and execute a 4th design intervention, a collective design intervention taking into account this perspective.

**Deliverable 1**: Carry out and document an end of the term design intervention using the micro challenge posed by the FabLab. Analyse it and reflect on the findings.

**Activity**: Group dynamic to create themes and groups of projects for the exhibition.
**Deliverable 2**: TBD - Define your theory of change.

**Deliverable**: Planning of the exhibition, space allocation and special needs.
**Deliverable 3**: Update your design space with the relations you have built.

**Task**: Work on the design dialogues deliverables.
=== "17/03"

**Design Dialogues II Preparation**

**Goals**: Create a collective and individual building up plan for the Design Dialogues exhibition.

**Activity 1**: Group dynamic to create themes and groups of projects for the exhibition.

**Task**: Planning of the exhibition, space allocation and special needs.

**Deliverable 1**: Work on the design dialogues deliverables.


## Deliverables

**Deliverables for after the holidays (Submission deadline, April 1st)**
**Deliverables for after the holidays (Submission deadline, April 6th)**

- **Video-documentary (5 min max)** (video-journaling) of your **Term II design interventions** - the video can be presented during Design Dialogues (optional)
- **Video-documentary (2-5 min)** (video-journaling) of your **Term II design interventions** - the video can be presented during Design Dialogues (optional)
- **5 good resolution images** of your **work during Term II** (experiments, prototypes, interventions, Design Dialogues space..)
- **2 good resolution screenshots** of your **individual and/or collective Design Spaces**
- **Website PDFs** (Seminar Reflections)


**These are the points we are going to look at for Term II:**

- Involvement of the community through the design interventions
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Self-Evaluation Question: Look back at the interventions you did last term and analyze them by self-evaluating your development:

- Involvement of the community through the design interventions. Did your process involve others in the design and implementation of the interventions? How meaningful do you think the interventions were for the external people that were involved?
- How much have you involved your community through your design interventions?
- Did your process involve others in the design and implementation of the interventions? How meaningful do you think the interventions were for the external people that were involved?
- In terms of situating your interventions, how successful were you in considering the resilience, material flows, situated knowledges and existing infrastructures in your design process?
- Were you able to draft an alternative present through the iterative reflective process offered by the outcomes of your design interventions?



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