This series covers current topics of research interest in design. The course content may vary semester to semester. Check with the department for current term topics.

Course Description In this class, you will practice framing and solving actionable, human-centered problems from a complex systems space: Disaster Response. Selecting from a range of pre-defined problem sets in the disaster response space sourced in collaboration with the National Security Innovation Network, students spend the class immersed in a semester-long project to design a technology-based intervention that addresses specific needs identified through the process of the class. Students will develop fluency in key concepts in disaster response, while developing expertise in key toolkits: design thinking, systems thinking, and readily-accessible technology platforms to prototype solutions (this semester, we will be exploring augmented reality, data visualization, and cloud-based machine learning services). Interventions will be contextualized and rigorously assessed for their relevance as a technology-based venture, and presented to a committee of stakeholders for feedback at the end of the course.

Enrollment will be based on an application, go to: https://forms.gle/c5f2rpGYWSp9JKfC9

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