Fall 2026
Eight courses connecting design with digital platforms, material experimentation, repair, publishing, and the built environment.
Study how online experiences are shaped, test the possibilities of a material, or investigate the spaces around you. Each course combines readings, practical assignments, and reflection with a final project you can develop for your portfolio.
01
Investigate how ranking, recommendation, advertising, and moderation mediate everyday online life.
6 weeks · 5 hours per week · beginner
Course focusRanking, feedback loop, optimization objective, moderation.
Final projectA platform field study and illustrated account of how visibility is shaped.
ApproachDocument sources, test assumptions, and revise work through critique.
02
Explore biological materials through accessible making, observation, and documented material testing.
6 weeks · 5 hours per week · beginner
Course focusBiofabrication, plasticizer, composite, growth conditions.
Final projectA DIY material library and proposed application.
ApproachDocument sources, test assumptions, and revise work through critique.
03
Study repairability, disassembly, waste streams, and the design of another useful life.
6 weeks · 5 hours per week · beginner
Course focusRepairability, reversible joint, material recovery, failure mode.
Final projectA repaired object, recovery map, and reproducible repair guide.
ApproachDocument sources, test assumptions, and revise work through critique.
04
Design how people entrust decisions and actions to people, services, and agents.
6 weeks · 5 hours per week · intermediate
Course focusDelegation, authority boundary, revocable consent, handoff.
Final projectA delegation service prototype with authority, handoffs, and recovery.
ApproachDocument sources, test assumptions, and revise work through critique.
05
Turn researched evidence into visual explanations with clear sources and uncertainty.
6 weeks · 5 hours per week · intermediate
Course focusEditorial question, data provenance, visual encoding, uncertainty.
Final projectA publication-quality visual story and documented dataset.
ApproachDocument sources, test assumptions, and revise work through critique.
06
Investigate alternative institutions, ownership models, shared resources, and collective life.
6 weeks · 5 hours per week · intermediate
Course focusInstitution, commons, second-order effect, governance.
Final projectA researched social proposal expressed through rules and everyday artifacts.
ApproachDocument sources, test assumptions, and revise work through critique.
07
Develop editorial and typographic systems across languages, formats, and reading contexts.
6 weeks · 5 hours per week · advanced
Course focusEditorial architecture, typographic hierarchy, script support, responsive typesetting.
Final projectA coordinated print and digital publication.
ApproachDocument sources, test assumptions, and revise work through critique.
08
Investigate how spaces shape behavior, access, and shared life through site research and adaptive reuse.
6 weeks · 5 hours per week · intermediate
Course focusSite analysis, spatial accessibility, adaptive reuse, spatial program.
Final projectA site-based spatial proposal with models and an implementation brief.
ApproachDocument sources, test assumptions, and revise work through critique.
Choose a course to review its full weekly plan, readings, assignments, and assessment criteria. Start the curriculum to bring it into your learning workspace. The courses are self-directed, with questions you can copy into the coach as you develop your work.