My courses explore design as a way of researching culture, cities, technology, and human experience. Across lectures, seminars, and project-based studios, students develop the ability to frame questions, conduct research, create design proposals, and communicate ideas critically.
This course introduces students to the relationship between culture, design, and management through lectures, field research, and project-based assignments.
This course examines cities as cultural environments and explores how design shapes urban identity, everyday experience, public life, and the meanings attached to place.
This course investigates emerging issues in cultural industries, connecting changes in media, technology, audiences, and creative production to contemporary cultural business and policy.
This course introduces design research as a systematic process for framing questions, understanding people and contexts, generating evidence, and informing responsible design decisions.
This course explores how design can support social innovation and sustainable change by examining interconnected environmental, social, and organizational challenges with communities and stakeholders.
This capstone course guides students in integrating technology, artistic inquiry, and design practice into a substantial collaborative project developed through research, experimentation, prototyping, and presentation.
This course develops the ability to design, conduct, analyze, and communicate rigorous qualitative research, with attention to methodological fit, interpretation, reflexivity, and research ethics.
This course examines innovation across connected digital and physical environments, focusing on how emerging technologies reshape products, services, spaces, interactions, and human experience.
This course explores research approaches for designing and evaluating intelligent interactive systems, emphasizing human-centered AI, adaptive interaction, prototyping, and empirical investigation.
This seminar critically examines current issues in HCI and UX design research, connecting foundational theories with emerging interaction paradigms, research debates, and methodological challenges.