If you’re looking for a class that challenges your imagination beyond traditional manufacturing and short-term market horizons, this might be the ideal class for you. This class is an invitation to delve into how natural systems and biodiversity can inform our design discoveries. By investigating our sensory needs, our investigative studio will unravel some of the mysteries of animal, insect, and cellular biologies and how the mechanics of those sensory systems can inspire our designs and design processes. Our course will cover how natural biologies and ecosystems function and how manufacturing can thrive by leveraging environmentally derived systems, cellular structures, and micro-mechanics. We’ll also prototype novel theories, methods, and product concepts into potential scenarios that may or may not have viable outcomes. Course work will include presentations, process modeling, research, team projects, and individual project development. Students should be skilled at basic design presentation and typical design skills consistent with ID modeling and visualization, but, above all, be willing to use their imagination and courage along with their skills and confidence.

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