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title: Design Studio
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    - tomas-diez
    - oscar-tomico
    - mariana-quintero
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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**: Understanding what it means to design for emergent futures. Analysing the past and finding weak signals. References, state of the art. Identifying areas of interest. Experimenting from the first-person perspective.

**TERM 2 Design**: Forming the present through interventions in the real world. Building the foundations of your design space, forming strategic partnerships. Applying knowledge into practice through iterative prototyping. Testing ideas and prototypes in the real world.

**TERM 3 Development**: Refining interventions and identifying desirable futures. Establishing roadmaps for the construction of emergent narratives.. Communicating and disseminating your project through speculative design.

## Deliverables

2-5 min video-documentary (video-journaling) of your 3 Term II interventions - for presenting during Design Dialogues and for uploading to the Emergent Futures Community

Visual material to support the exhibition.

Evolution of physical and/or Digital prototypes from your Design Space

Thesis Draft - Chapters 3-7 made up of the weekly deliverables for this term. (Due until the end of Easter Holidays):

- **Chapter 3**: Reframing of the project

- **Chapter 4**: Autoethnography - First Intervention

- **Chapter 5**: Post-Human Design - Second Intervention

- **Chapter 6**: Future Scouting - Third Intervention

- **Chapter 7**: Towards a Personal Narrative - Documentation and Communication Seminar

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