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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: Analysing the past. References, state of the art. Identifying areas of interest. Experimenting in first person.

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

**TERM 3 Development**: Development Studio: Defining the future. Establishing roadmaps. Forming strategic partnerships. Communicating and disseminating your project.

MDEF’s Design Studio aims to evolve the work developed by students during the first term of the Master program (Research Studio). After identifying areas of interest, and proposing initial project ideas, students will be encouraged to develop further their projects into specific proposals, focusing on designing interventions 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.

## 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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