DEA 5500

Designing for Material Affect

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course explores material affects' ephemeral yet profound influence on human experiences. By integrating theories from environmental psychology, philosophy, and design, students investigate how materials shape both our surroundings and ourselves. Emphasizing an applied theory approach, students will actively engage with concepts by crafting and testing material assemblies. Through hands-on exploration, they'll uncover the fundamental connections between material qualities, sensory interactions, and environmental atmospheres, fostering design innovation.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: upper level undergraduate students in FSAD, DEA, AAP, MUSIC, ARCH, and LARC majors, and graduate students with design backgrounds.

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Outcomes

• Investigate typologies of physical and affective material qualities.
• Explore theories of affect, atmosphere, aesthetics, phenomenology, and related topics.
• Examine the connection between material qualities and human affect via sensory experiences and physical phenomena through hands-on exploration.
• Apply research, design, fabrication, and evaluation techniques to construct human-experience-focused material propositions.
• Employ graphic information visualization and narrative communication for accessible presentations.

When Offered Spring.

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