DESIGN 287: Design for Play

Course Description

During this unique moment in time, with the pandemic still looming, and racial reckoning in America, the importance and the role of play in designing experiences is an essential tool that enables us to collectively navigate ambiguity, build trust and re-imagine assorted legacy systems. In this class students will explore the playful nature of creativity to help real world project partners infuse their products and services with joy and transform their organizations to be more playful. Students will learn how the playful mind is essential to productive thinking and underlies the creativity required for the best ideas. You will also work collaboratively to ask and answer: How might play be a vehicle for wellness? How might play connect people and rebuild community? This class is for students of all experience levels, we will redefine play as we learn, and develop skills to move from the abstract to the concrete -- with meaning, goals, and principles.