DEA 4403

Technopoetics-Designing Tomorrow

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Today’s advancements in technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and robotics are rapidly transforming human experiences. In response, this course, drawing on Speculative Design and Design Futures, engages students in hands-on design inquiries to critically examine emerging technologies (especially AI) and their implications. Borrowing from the arts, critical design, and science fiction, the course challenges students to prototype alternative technological futures and interrogate how these innovations redefine design paradigms, the ethical boundaries of technology, and the evolving responsibilities of designers in the future. *This year, the course will focus on AI. Students will be tasked with creating a design prototype that integrates AI in a meaningful and thought-provoking way.

Prerequisites DEA students: DEA 1101, DEA 1140, DEA 1150, DEA 2730, DEA 2000-level studio, DEA 3000-level studio. Non-DEA students: INFO 3450/DEA 2730 or equivalent.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment preference given to: DEA seniors.

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