VCD: Advanced Topics: Foundry Field

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This advanced topics course in visual communication design explores identity through the lens of design, community, history, and sport. The class will build on historical research conducted by students in the Baseball In America course in the fall of '22. The class will collaborate with the Centers for Social Concerns, Foundry Field (foundryfield.org), and community partners to examine the history of appropriation, representation, and access in sports and design. Students will implement participatory and co-creative design methods to understand how community involvement in the design process might stimulate dialogue, create a greater sense of community ownership, and empower local advocates in their work toward inclusion, representation, and access.