The first ShareMaking Collaborative Design Workshop was on Saturday, October 9, 2021. There were twenty students in attendance spanning all three Stuckeman School departments (Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture, and Architecture). Undergraduate and graduate students from many year levels were represented as well. In addition, six faculty facilitators were present, and five alumni mentors joined us virtually during specific exercises.
The workshop began with a warm-up called the Marshmallow Challenge. This great team-building exercise developed by IDEO has an important central lesson about the importance of testing ideas. The rest of the workshop focused on the theme: Re-imagining the Studio post-2020.
Students created personal maps of their experiences at Stuckeman and Borland by working in pairs. One student spoke while another listened closely and recorded them in a drawing. Two of these pairs then joined together to make group maps based on their four personal maps. They then brainstormed about studio spaces’ challenges and success, culminating in a workshop-wide discussion about common themes and possible design challenges that we could address. After lunch, new groups were formed around these design challenges (social space, private space, lighting, and furnishing), and teams created proposals for innovations in Stuckeman and Borland.
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