EDAD 301 - Design Works at MassArt

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Massachusetts College of Art and Design

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Design Works is a multi-disciplinary critique and seminar class in current design topics. This semester the class investigates lighting. Invited experts in the lighting and research field provide essential tools, background and demonstrations in a lecture and presentation format, with the class culminating in a final project that solves a particular design issue. Each project is pre-selected based upon the actual needs of a corporate or community partner, and the students address specific component solutions that are covered in the course content. Typical topics include but are not limited to investigations of built form, analysis of precedent, daylighting, product design, line and low voltage systems, the science of light, experimentation of light as material, sustainability, lighting loads, solar energy systems, and physical applications. Open to Freshmen with Permission of Instructor Prerequisites: Type: hybrid studio/critique(5hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: departmental elective

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.massart.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 879-7000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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