Overview
Choose a person, a school, a company or a group of people to have as design clients (individuals like WEB Du Bois, schools like The Bauhaus, or companies like Knoll) that have been (or will be) covered in this class. Design for them a physical space or object that reflects their ideals but in a 2024 setting. Who you design for, and what you design, is entirely up to you.
To get a sense of what we will cover in the coming weeks, look at the reading selections in the textbook for the rest of the semester. This is a deeper dive into research than covered in class or in the textbook. You are expected to show information that was not covered in the lecture on whatever client you choose. There should also be a specific aspect of their practice or ideology you are focusing on. There are a multitude of considerations (lenses through which you can analyze history) in devising and exploring this new design- societal, formal, materials use, philosophy, maker/designer, class structure, spaces these were intended for, religion, taste, etc.