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## Syllabus

MDEF Research, Design and Development studios aim to take research areas of interest and initial project ideas into an advanced concretion point, and execution plan. The studio structure in three terms could be understood as follows:

**TERM 1 Research**: Research Studio: Analyzing the past. References, state of the art. Identifying areas of interest.

**TERM 2 Design**: Design Studio: Forming the present. Building the foundations. Applying knowledge into practice. Prototyping and experimenting. Prototyping. Testing ideas and prototypes in the real world.

**TERM 3 Development**: Development Studio: Defining the future. Establishing roadmaps. Forming partnerships. Testing ideas and prototypes in the real world.

The Design Studio time will be dedicated to supporting students to focus their work on the development of their design intervention or project. During the studio, studio leaders will bring invited guests to introduce topics of interest to the process and to participate in tutorials during the desk crits.

## Deliverables

Deliverables:

Document (2-4 pages per chapter, 7 chapters)

Set of 5 photos to communicate the project (high / print quality)

Video (2-3 mins max)

Prototype / Platform / etc.

Exhibition production

Presentation

## Additional Resources

Speculative Everything - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

Adversarial Design - Carl DiSalvo

Massive Change - Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard and Institute without Boundaries

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change - Victor Papanek

Liquid Modernity - Zygmunt Bauman

Who Owns the Future? - Jason Lanier

This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism - Evgeny Morozov

Democratizing Innovation - Eric Von Hippel

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things - Michael Braungart, William McDonough

Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet - Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World - Jeremy Rifkin

The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs

The Third Plate - Dan Barber

Free Innovation - Eric Von Hippel

Limits to Growths - Donella H. Meadows

The Human Face of Big Data - Rick Smolan

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