Participatory Community Design

3 credits · Undergraduate

The course explores immersive technologies and spatial computing tools such as Virtual and Augmented Reality in their potential to coalesce and make visible the social and cultural forces that inhabit and animate the built environment. First-person experiences enabled by immersive technologies are increasingly being extended too multi-user ecosystems that pave the way for novel collaborative design and community participation platforms. Design methods traditionally associated with the built environment can be augmented by overlaying of data, communications, multimodal media formats and storytelling, with horizontally disruptive potential across different fields.