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The Design School Arizona State University

ALA100 Intro to Environmental Design Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Summer 2022, May 16 – June 24, Session A

“Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.” - Princess Shuri, Black Panther

"Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It is all about paying attention. It is all about taking in as much of what is out there, as you can, and not letting the excuses and the dreariness of obligations narrow our lives. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager." - Susan Sontag

Nikolas Smilovsky, PhD, GISP Instructor, The Design School Dr. Nikolas Smilovsky Nikolas.Smilovsky@asu.edu Office hours By Zoom appointment only, scheduled via email: asu.ala100@gmail.com Class dates 05/16 – 06/24 Teaching Assistants / Graders

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“Year in Ideas” New York Times Magazine 2004 Catalogue description ALA 100: An Introduction to Environmental Design (3 credit hours) Survey of Environmental Design: including historical examples, and the theoretical, social, technical, and environmental forces that influence design and shape our contemporary environment. Prerequisites: none. Satisfies General Studies Requirements: HU (Humanities/Fine Arts), G (Global awareness), H (Historical awareness). Course overview “Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.” - Vaclav Havel Our environment not only sustains our lives, but also constantly evolves and is changed through our daily actions or lack thereof. Without any doubt, all of us are “designers” who shape the

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**Disclaimer**This syllabus is to be used as a guideline only. The information provided is a summary of topics to be covered in the class.Information contained in this document such as assignments, grading scales, due dates, office hours, required books and materials may be froma previous semester and are subject to change. Please refer to your instructor for the most recent version of the syllabus.

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future environment that our children will inherit at many scales, whether our natural landscapes, cities, buildings, interiors, virtual worlds, or a cherished gift that we hold in our hand. In this course, we will collectively discover what design is, how design comes about, and why design is important to your life, and our evolving environment. We will strive for a deeper understanding of the major ideas, conditions and forces, which are influencing design today, both locally and globally, and in turn shaping our contemporary global environment. The appreciation of design is not merely the task of leaning facts, historic styles or media fashions, but rather is a matter of developing a consciousness of yourself and your evolving environment, and then taking responsibility for your role as a “designer” to act now to enhance and sustain life every day within our global community. Instructional objectives “The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust We will help you:

1) Develop an awareness of what design is, how design comes about, and why design is

important.

2) Develop an ability to see the world through a designer’s eye – to observe and read your environment, not just glance and pass by, but to slow down and open your senses fully to new experiences and opportunities. Our interest is to help you look carefully at the inherent knowledge of your immediate environment - how to perceive it, how to think critically about it, how to represent it, how to use it - and how those readings of a specific environment can inform and enhance your life.

3) Develop an awareness and respect for the diversity of global environments, their

respective cultures, and designs, which reflect the fundamental beliefs, and values of individuals, families, and institutions within a specific community and place.

4) Develop an awareness of the world around you through the eyes of environment design.

Instructional methodology “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation…” - Maya Angelou Our teaching is committed to assisting each of you in your pursuit of mastery, lifelong learning that influences how you see, feel, question, think and act - rather than short term performance based education: simply memorizing known facts and recalling them on exams. This course will be challenging and engaging. It will immerse you in the exciting pursuit of ideas and answers to the bigger questions, which are shaping contemporary design, our environment, and your own life. Foundational concepts and their real world applications will be introduced first in our illustrated lectures and supplemented by hearing from a series of Arizona’s leading designers, who will be joining us for our Inside the Designer’s Studio sessions. Deep personal learning will occur as you apply your new design understanding in our Collaborative Design Challenge, which will require you to go out into the local environment, and actively see, feel, question, think and act.

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Evaluation, Feedback, and Grading Within this course, your work will be carefully examined, evaluated and graded. You should not confuse feedback or evaluation with grading. Feedback is a process of discussion in which your ideas and observations are themselves modified, corrected, and strengthened. Evaluation is a critic of a performance to appraise and mentor a future trajectory of intellectual growth (Mastery). Grading on the other hand is an index of a relative standing against a grading standard or norm for a particular peer group (your Collaborative Design Group). Within this course all feedback, evaluation and grading will be done collectively by both your Group and Instructors. 1) Time management

Time management is a well-known problem for 87% of beginning college students. Purchase a calendar and use it or use the calendar on your smartphone – put all our course deadlines and your study times on it today. Keep ahead of the deadlines by working on this class for one-hour everyday (the rule of thumb is for each 3 credit course = 6 hours a week of homework), rather than waiting until the last minute to complete poor design challenges, weak videos, or the last minute writing of unprepared answers during the online discussion sessions.

2) Attendance and excused absences

As with any high-quality professional position, or within any leading edge design practice, your active participation each and every day is mandatory. To succeed you will need to watch and review the class notes for every lecture, to insure you develop an understanding of the ideas and skills you will need to successfully complete the Design Challenge and gain full benefits from this course. Also, like working globally today, you must remain in constant contact EVERY DAY with your Collaborative Design Group members, (via cellphone, text, Google hangout, Adobe connect, Skype, Zoom and email) because all your assignments are completed in individually, but peer reviewed and graded – preparing you for the norm in your future professional career. Late or incomplete work is never accepted. The only exceptions are:

1) excused absences due to a serious illness under a doctor’s care, hospitalization, a family death/tragedy, or another serious life altering event;

2) excused absences related to religious observances/practices that are in accord with ACD 304–04, Accommodation for Religious Practices; or

3) excused absences related to an ASU sanctioned events/activities that are in accord

with ACD 304–02, Missed Classes Due to University-Sanctioned Activities. After receiving a pdf documenting your event, an excused absence will be granted and you will be allowed to complete the assignment in the same amount of time you were absent.

3) Your required readings and class content

Lectures and readings available on our class website. Please be sure to review the schedule document, design challenge document, and the extra credit document.

4) Our class web site To access the site:

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• Go to https://courses.hol.asu.edu/courses/ala100/ • If prompted, log in with your ASURITE name and password • You can also find a link to the site on the main Herberger Online site

at https://herbergeronline.asu.edu

Posted on our class web site are: your syllabus, schedule, lectures, lecture notes, access to your assigned Collaborative Design Group, the Design Challenge assignment, announcements, and your grades. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the location and operation of all of them. Caution - using your MyASU canvas link to our website is not advised, Canvas outages can happen, and citing a canvas outage as the reason for missing a submission is not accepted.

5) Your Collaborative Design Group You have been automatically assigned to a Collaborative Design Group to study and work

with to complete your Design Challenge assignments. How to locate your Collaborative Design Group: • Log on to the “ALA 100 – Introduction to Environmental Design” web site (see directions

above) • Click on the “My Group” tab. • At the bottom of that page, you’ll see a list of everyone in your group, email them ASAP

get connected and organized. Given the nature of your work on the Design Challenge, you must stay in constant daily contact with your assigned Collaborative Design Group members. Exchange email addresses and cell numbers immediately. If you choose not to stay in daily contact (via cellphone, text, Google + hangouts, Adobe Connect, Skype and email) with your Collaborative Design Group in completing your assignment reviews/responses, then your group’s peer grades of your work will suffer.

6) Our Design Challenge

The real test of whether anyone has really learned and understood a body of newly acquired body of knowledge is to simply ask them to apply it to a real life problem. You will be working in a randomly assigned Collaborative Design Group on a required Design Challenges with two major sections. Please read Design Challenge and schedule documents from the main page of the website for more information! Also please review the schedule document for a better understanding of class flow. This class move very fast.

7) Online Group Discussions for Design Challenge

Following the completion of the Design Challenge sections, you and your Group members will be required to engage in an Online Discussion about the ideas, methods and significance of the design work you have just completed. On the dates indicated, you will need to participate throughout the day in your Collaborative Design Group’s Online Discussion. Be sure to answer the required questions. In every post, thoughtfully respond to your Group member’s ideas and observations supported by detailed “quoted examples” from our lectures, textbook and other online resources readings.

8) Special accommodations

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To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact the ASU Disability Resource Center (http://www.asu.edu/studentaffairs/ed/drc/# ; Phone: (480) 965-1234; TDD: (480) 965-9000). This is a very important step as accommodations may be difficult to make retroactively. If you have a letter from their office indicating that you have a disability which requires academic accommodations, in order to assure that you receive your accommodations in a timely manner, please send this documentation to the instructor no later than the end of the first week of the semester so that your needs can be addressed effectively.

9) ASU Student Code of Conduct, academic dishonesty and plagiarism

Please review the ASU Student Code of Conduct https://students.asu.edu/srr/code and ASU policy against disruptive or threatening behavior SSM 104–02. Any act of academic dishonesty, such as plagiarism, will result in your automatic failure of the course and a final course grade of E. Plagiarism is the act of using designs, words and the ideas of others as if they are your own. By citing sources correctly, you give credit to the originator of the words and ideas you are using, you give your readers the information they need to consult those sources directly, and build their own credibility. Young college students sometime get into trouble because they mistakenly assume that plagiarizing and mashing up is ok, it is not. If you are unsure or have any questions, regarding these policies, academic dishonestly or plagiarism, please ask one of your instructors to explain it.

10) Grading

We want to be sure that all grading in our class is fair and equitable. We only discuss grades FACE-TO-FACE (via Zoom), not by email, text or phone (if you are an out-of-state student we will use Zoom). Please contact the particular instructor who graded your assignment and set up a meeting. Next write out the reason for your proposed grade change and bring all the supporting materials with you to our meeting (for Zoom meetings, you will send this electronically in advance). Understand that your grade may go up or down based on our re-examination.

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Required Online quizzes on lectures and readings (60 questions, 0.50 point each) - 30 Design Challenge #1 - 35 Design Challenge #2 - 35 Total: 100 points A+ 97 % and above B 84-86 % D 70-73% A 94-96 % B- 80-83 % E 69% and below A- 90-93 % C+ 77-79 % XE Failure due to dishonesty B+ 87-89 % C 74-76 % Y Satisfactory

Important notes: 1) Remember late work is never accepted and there is only one extra credit assignment defined independently to design challenges. 2) To insure equity and fairness for every student enrolled in this course, we will not round up or down the cumulative final points, you earn.

11) Course drop or withdrawal If you wish to drop or withdraw from this course, it is your responsibility to do so by the deadlines. See https://students.asu.edu/academic-calendar to confirm theses dates and requirements. Any course registration changes are processed through My ASU: http://my.asu.edu.

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The Design School Arizona State University

ALA100 Intro to Environmental Design Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Summer 2022, May 16 – June 24, Session A

PART 1 – What is Design and the Environment Week 1 (05/16 to 05/22) Watch: • Lecture 1 - What is Design? • Lecture 2 - Ways of Seeing • Lecture 3 - The Design Process • Lecture 4 - Ways of Envisioning Information – Tools of Visual Literacy

Tasks: • Review course syllabus, schedule, and design challenge project • Complete readings, video lectures, and quizzes • Complete Design Challenge #1 Collage • Contact your group members and exchange contact info via the email link on your

group page. Set up group Zoom meeting schedules. • Attend Zoom Meeting with Instructor (invites coming)

DUE – Sunday, May 22nd submit Design Challenge #1 collage (post assignments before 23:59pm). Week 2 (05/23 to 05/29) Watch: • Lecture 5 - Design process case study: Samuel Mockbee • Lecture 6 - Design case study: Charles and Ray Eames • Lecture 7 - Design case study: Luis Barragán • Lecture 8 - Why Designers Travel - Jose Bernardi

Tasks: • Review course syllabus, schedule, and design challenge project • Complete readings, video lectures, and quizzes • Complete Design Challenge #1 design evaluation matrix • Stay in daily contact with your group members and work with each other on design

challenge discussion DUE – Sunday, May 29th submit Design Challenge #1 design evaluation matrix (post assignments before 23:59pm).

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Week 3 (05/30 to 06/05) Watch: • Lecture 9 - What is the Environment? Celebrating Arizona • Lecture 10 - Themed Environments • Lecture 11 - Digital Environments • Lecture 12 - Inside the Designer’s Studio: Graphic Design – Jim Nissen

Tasks: • Complete readings, video lectures, and quizzes • Complete Design Challenge #1 video, group discussion, and peer review

DUE – Friday, June 3rd submit Design Challenge #1 final group video (hyperlink) with summary (post assignment before 23:59pm).

DUE – Saturday, June 4th submit group discussions for Design Challenge 1 (post discussion before 23:59pm). DUE – Sunday, June 5th submit peer grading for Design Challenge 1 (post peer review before 23:59pm).

PART 2 – Inside the Designer’s Studio Week 4 (06/06 to 06/12) Watch: • Lecture 13 - Inside the Designer’s Studio: Industrial Designer – Yani Deros • Lecture 14 - Inside the Designer’s Studio: Green Design – Tom Hahn • Lecture 15 - Inside the Designer’s Studio: Interior Designer - Tony Sutton • Lecture 16 - Inside the Designer’s Studio: City of Tempe - Chris Anaradian + Mark Vinson

Tasks: • Complete readings, video lectures, and quizzes • Complete Design Challenge 2 initial sketch • Stay in daily contact with your group members and work with each other on design

challenge discussion • Complete extra credit essay (optional)

DUE – Sunday, June 12th submit Design Challenge #2 initial design sketch (post assignment before 23:59pm)

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Week 5 (06/13 to 06/19) Watch: • Lecture 17 – Urban Planning Overview – Eileen Baden • Lecture 18 - Inside the Designer’s Studio: Landscape Architect – Chris Winters • Lecture 19 - Inside the Designer’s Studio: Architect – Rick Joy • Lecture 20 - Inside the Designer’s Studio: Gaming Designer – Mark Buchignani – THQ

Tasks: • Complete readings, video lectures, & quizzes • Complete Design Challenge #2 Zoom video discussion • Stay in daily contact with your group members and work with each other on design

challenge discussion • Work on extra credit essay (optional)

DUE – Sunday, June 19th submit Design Challenge #2 Zoom video discussion (post assignment before 23:59pm) Week 6 (06/20 to 06/24) Watch:

• None Tasks: • Complete readings, video lectures, and quizzes • Complete all Design Challenge #2 assignments, group discussion, and peer review • Complete extra credit essay (optional)

DUE – Wednesday, June 22nd submit Design Challenge # 2 final group video (hyperlink) and summary (post assignment before 23:59pm) DUE – Thursday, June 23rd submit group discussion for Design Challenge #2 (post discussion before 23:59pm) DUE – Friday, June 24th submit peer grading for Design Challenge # 2 - (post peer review before 23:59pm) DUE – Friday, June 24th submit optional extra credit assignment (post assignment before 23:59pm)

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on." -

Steve Jobs www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

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The Design School Arizona State University

ALA100 Intro to Environmental Design Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Summer 2022, May 16 – June 24, Session A

Design Challenge - The Complex Design of Seats and Sitting Spaces

"Some of the best inventive moments were born out of “wrong thinking.” Most people start with

the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which

you can learn and create new discoveries - the kind of original ideas that come to life when we

dare to be different, keep an open mind and have no fear of failure." - James Dyson, Industrial

Designer

The Objective: To take what you have learned so far about design and the environment, and put it to the ultimate

test - to become a designer! As you traverse the course lectures, videos, and other materials, you will be working on the tangible skills of a designer. You will research the main themes, concepts,

processes, and types of design. Next, you will investigate and analyze the different components of

environmental design as it applies to sitting apparatuses and seating areas. Conclusively you will use everything you have learned to make your own design with the proper considerations in mind.

Additionally, you will discuss your project with your collaborative design group. This helps

strengthen your design resolve and helps you become a better designer.

The Assignment Overview: Explore the concepts and steps of design through a comprehensive project involving two

different design challenges. For Design Challenge #1, you will use what you have learned in class to create a collage and design matrix that both visually represent the main concepts in

design as expressed in the class lectures. These items will be shared with your assigned group

and the final assignment will be one, comprehensive group video that clearly shows everyone’s work and the highlights of your group discussions. For Design Challenge #2, your group will be

exploring the conceptual design of “the perfect seat and sitting space,” based on the knowledge

you have acquired from lectures. In a final group video, you will express the means of designing

your final model, while explaining how you made design decisions along the way. Both Design Challenges will conclude with a group discussion that gives you the opportunity to share and

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debate what you learned during the group project, and how it helped you grow as a student.

Groups: All people in ALA100 are automatically selected for groups of 5-8 students. You can find your

group members listed under the group tab on the class website and contact them via email. You will need to find and contact your group as soon as possible to be successful in this class! A large percentage of your grade in the class is based on group work, so make sure that

you are communicating with your group at least 4-7 days per week to keep up with assignments.

Each group is designated a TA, who will email you with updates throughout the semester. If any of your group members fail to communicate with the rest of the group, contact your groups

designated TA immediately for help.

Design Challenge #1 Instructions:

1. Collage: Individual assignment a. Each student will create a collage of images, quotes, and other graphics that

focus on the design of seats and seating areas. The items on your collage should relate to the concepts, themes, processes, and types of design that you learned

about in the class lectures.

b. Collage requirements: i. Must be 24” x 36”

ii. Can be created digitally or physically, your choice

iii. Must include a minimum of 5 images/quotes/graphics iv. The images can be found on the internet or taken by you

c. Examples:

d. Submit your collage to the class website by 11:59 on May 22nd

2. Design Evaluation Matrix: Individual assignment a. Each student must go on a scavenger hunt in their local neighborhood to find 5

different examples of seats or seating areas. The examples can include things like

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park benches, amphitheaters, swings or any other seats you can find. Photograph

each example and take notes on its appearance and location. b. Create a design evaluation matrix in MS Excel or Google Sheets. The leftmost

column of the chart will list each of your examples. On the top row of the chart, put

in the design variables as follows: comfortability, cost, environmental impact,

safety, sustainability, social impact, function, and aesthetics. Then, rank each of your seating areas on a scale of 1-10 for each variable. Lower scores are bad and

higher scores are good. For example, if one of your seating areas was a wooden

picnic table it might get a four for comfortability and a nine for cost since picnic tables are not very comfortable, but cheap to make. Use your best judgement

while filling out your matrix.

c. Under your matrix, include an image of each example. d. Examples:

e. Submit your Matrix to the class website by 11:59 on May 29th

3. Final Group Zoom Video and Summary: Group Assignment a. Each group must create a final group video that tells a story about your collages,

design evaluation matrixes, and what you learned from this design challenge.

b. To complete the final group video, your group must have one or more zoom meetings to discuss both parts of the design challenge. Group members will

present their collage and matrix. Explain each assignment to your group and talk

about what you learned while creating them. After each member has presented

their work, your group will have a discussion about what you learned about design, and the design of seating areas. Record this zoom meeting and submit it

for credit.

c. Video requirements: i. Submit recording of Zoom meeting. Minimum time 30 minutes.

ii. Each group members collage must appear in the video

iii. Each group members matrix must appear in the video

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iv. Credit slide at the end: only include the names of group members who

participated in the making of the video d. Each group must collectively write a 200-word summary answering the following

three questions:

i. What are the three lessons learned about design in general?

ii. What are the three things your group learned about seats and seating areas?

iii. What was the most challenging thing of Part 1?

e. Only one member of your group will submit the group video and summary to the class website by 11:59 on June 3rd. The video must be uploaded to YouTube and

submitted as a hyperlink.

4. Group Discussion a. On or before Saturday, June 4th, everyone in your collaborative design group will

have an online discussion on your collaborative design group’s design process

and designs. Instructions for finding the group discussion on the website is at the

end of this document. b. Each individual student must make one initial post and one response post. c. Initial post: Your initial post will answer the following questions: What else could

we have done to learn about the design of seats and seating areas, and how? What additional techniques could we use to improve our conversation and why?

You must form an argument and use cited evidence from lecture materials or

other online resources. d. Response post: In order to form an educated discussion with your team, you

must respond to your group members by agreeing or disagreeing with their

argument, and explaining your reasoning clearly.

e. Although the discussion is open all day, please be courteous to your group and make your initial post as early as possible.

f. Grades for the group discussion are individual. If certain members of your group

fail to make any posts, you will not be penalized 5. Peer review

a. By 11:59 on June 5th please peer grade each of your group member’s work based

upon a careful review of your group’s design process, video summary and

discussion posts. Remember to be kind.

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b. You will find the peer grading link on your group page under the group grading

section Design Challenge #2 Instructions:

1. Sketches: Individual Assignment a. Based on what you learned in Design Challenge #1 and in class lectures, each

student will create a sketch of what you believe to be an ideal seating area design. Remember the variables from your design evaluation matrix and the images from

your collage. Make sure that your sketch is detailed and easy to understand.

b. Examples:

c. Submit your sketch to the class website by 11:59 on June 12th.

2. Zoom Recording: Group Assignment a. After everyone has submitted their sketches, your group will need to schedule and

record a zoom meeting together. In the meeting, each group member will present their sketch and explain why it is an ideal seating area. After everyone has explained

their design, your group will pick one sketch that you would like to move forward with.

Then, as a group, you will develop this sketch into a final design. Discuss what you all think an ideal seating area should look like and then make adjustments or

improvements to the selected sketch to create a final design model.

b. This video requires NO editing. Please submit the raw recording.

c. Record the zoom meeting to the cloud. One person from each group must submit the link to the zoom recording to the class website by 11:59 on June 19th.

3. Final Group Video and Summary: Group Assignment a. As a group, create a comprehensive final video that describes the story of how you

developed your final design model from start to finish. Include any assignment,

discussion, or video clip from this class that makes sense for the narrative of the

video. Conclude with an explanation of how you developed your group’s favorite

sketch into your final design. Remember to think like a designer! b. Video requirements:

i. Max time limit: 3 minutes

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ii. The video must include clips from your zoom recording that show how your

group developed your sketch iii. The video must include assignments and discussions from the class

iv. An image of your group’s final seating area design

v. Credit slide at the end: only include group members who participated in the

project. c. Your group must collectively write a 200 word summary introduction answering the

following four questions:

i. Why is good design important? ii. What was the most critical component of designing a sitting area?

iii. How did your group identify a “perfect” seat and sitting area?

iv. What would your group do differently if you did this project again? d. Only one member from your group will submit the video and summary on the class

website by June 22nd at midnight. The video must be uploaded to YouTube and

submitted as a hyperlink.

4. Group Discussion a. On or before June 23rd, everyone in your collaborative design group will have an

online discussion on your collaborative design group’s design process and designs.

Instructions for finding the group discussion on the website can be found at the end of this document.

b. Each individual student must make one initial post and one response posts. c. Initial post: Your initial post will answer the following questions: Which aspects of

seats and sitting areas are best? What additional techniques could we use to improve

our conversation and why? You must form an argument and use cited evidence from

lecture materials or other online sources to support your argument. d. Response post: In order to form an educated discussion with your team, you must

respond to your group members by agreeing or disagreeing with their argument, and

explaining your reasoning clearly.

e. Although the discussion is open all day, please be courteous to your group and make your initial post as early as possible.

f. Grades for the group discussion are individual. If certain members of your group fail

to make any posts, you will not be penalized

5. Peer review

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a. By 11:59 on June 24th please peer grade each of your group member’s work based

upon a careful review of your group’s design process, video summary and discussion posts. Remember to be kind.

b. You will find the grading link on your group page under the group grading section

Design Challenge Grading Rubrics: The Grading Rubric for Design Challenge #1 (35 points total):

Collage: 10 points

Design Evaluation Matrix: 10 points Final Group Zoom Video and Summary: 8 points

Group Discussion: 7 points

The Grading Rubric for Design Challenge 2 (35 points total):

Initial Sketch: 10 points

Zoom Recording: 10 points

Final Group Video and Summary: 8 points Group Discussion: 7 points

Submission Instructions: Uploading Your Group Video:

• To create a URL hyperlink, simply paste your YouTube URL from your web browser

window into Microsoft Word – click the return button, it will now be underlined, and active.

Now it can be cut and pasted as necessary.

• You must post your video on YouTube. Do not post your video on the class website; it will

not accept any video directly. It must be the link.

• ONE designated member posts your group’s video YouTube URL hyperlink and summary introduction.

• Steps to do this:

o Log on to our “ALA 100 – Introduction to Environmental Design” web site.

o Click on “My Group” tab. o Under “Design Challenges”, find the entry for Design Challenge #2. If it is before

the submission deadline, the Challenge will still be open, and if no one in your

group has submitted anything yet, there will be a “Submit Now” link in the Action column.

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o Click on the “Submit now “link.

o In the User Agreement, enter your name and check the box labeled “Confirm Your Agreement.” When you have done that, click “Enter Assessment.”

o You should now be looking at the form for the Design Challenge.

o In the first box, paste your YouTube URL hyperlink.

o In the second box, type your 200 word summary - remember always check the grammar and spelling. Think of this more as a term paper then an e-mail, you will

be marked down for the use any shorthand (texting) or failure to capitalize. Now

read your response aloud. o Click “Submit”.

o If everything worked, you should see a receipt page and a message indicating

that the Challenge is complete. You may want to print or screen grab this page for your records.

o If you have any technical issues turning the video and summary in on the class

website, make sure that you send them both to the professor and your TA before

the deadline for the project to get full credit. Posting in the Group Discussion

• To post a reply to any of your design group mate’s responses: o Log on to our “ALA 100 – Introduction to Environmental Design” web site.

o Click on the “My Group” tab.

o Under “Group Discussions” find the entry for Design Challenge section 2. If it is

before the submission deadline, the discussion will still be open; you will see a link in the Action column labeled “Discuss.”

o Click on the “Discuss“ link. You should now see the Discussion Area for your

group, for this Design Challenge only. o Each post by a fellow group member will have a “Reply” button. Click that button

to post a reply.

o Enter your response in the “message” box - be sure to read your response aloud and check the grammar and spelling, prior to submitting.

o Finally post it by clicking on “Post Reply.”

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The Design School Arizona State University

ALA100 Intro to Environmental Design Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Summer 2022, May 16 – June 24, Session A Extra Credit Essay Due: June 24th, 2022 by 11:59pm (Arizona time)

Instructions:

• Read The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design by Galen Cranz (2000).

• Write a 2-page paper reflecting on the design process, what you learned in ALA100, and on the Galen’s book The Chair. This is a reflective essay and meant to be personal in nature.

• Students must be thorough and use direct citations from the book. A minimum of two citations

are required to receive full credit. Personal experiences are permitted in the essay, to help substantiate your test’s narrative. Do not over think this! - Have some fun, show us you

understand what design is and that you read the book thoroughly. It is that simple.

• Paper formatting requirements are Times New Roman, font size 12, and double-spaced. The

essay must be written at a collegiate level and proofread. Please include a title at the top of the first page and the author’s name. Be professional!

• Please cite/reference any external sources used in MLA or APA format. You may also use the

lectures videos to support your essay. • Save the extra credit essay as a PDF. Name it “YourLastName_ALA100_ExtraCredit”.

• Submit this assignment via the class’s internet website.

• The assignment is worth up to six total points (= to four quizzes @ 1.5 points). • To receive 100% of the credit, you must follow these directions explicitly. No exceptions!

• No late submissions accepted.

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