Environmental Design

Design can never exist in isolation. All design is a response to the context in which it is made. More significantly the activity and outcomes of design shape environmental and cultural meanings. In this paper we will focus on three main questions. Firstly what, from a design perspective, is meant by environment? Secondly how can designerly strategies be used to understand and manipulate issues of context? And lastly how can design both respond to and instrumentally shape wider societal concerns including sustainability, landscape, place and belonging?

Courses

DESN 101 – Design Inquiry

DESI 313 – Environmental Design Theory
DESI 323 / DETE 329 – Environmental Design Project

Course Coordination