Permission of Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

Students will identify and begin framing a self-selected challenge and/or real-world project using design tools and methods, with an emphasis on employing a human-centered, creative problem-solving approach. This course requires a high degree of self-direction in all aspects of the project work, including defining specific milestones and deliverables. There will be regular coaching from an Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship team member.

Cross-listed with IDEA459. Credit only granted for IDEA459 or IDEA659.

When you think of classical music, do you picture ball gowns, men in powdered wigs, and music to fall asleep to? For many, these common misconceptions create barriers to encountering live classical music. The Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship partners with the National Orchestral Institute + Festival to challenge long-standing assumptions and explore the potential for belonging, experimentation, and awe that live classical music offers. This interdisciplinary design studio serves as a collaborative, experiential space to explore and develop ideas for future NOI+F festivals. We'll cover tenets of Experience Design like Phase 0, relational empathy, immersion, world building, and diagramming, and draw on practices such as Futuring, Improv, and Human-Centered Design to create innovative, audience-centered experiments. Whatever your experience level with classical music, design, or powdered wigs, you'll deepen your creative intuition and uncover new ways of working and thinking.

Prerequisite: Previous design experience required; and must have Permission of Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Repeatable to 6 credits. Additional information: For more information on design see https://innovation.umd.edu/about-us/what-design. Contact department for information to register for this course.

Students will work on a self-selected challenge and/or real-world project using design tools and methods, with an emphasis on employing a human-centered, creative problem-solving approach. This course requires a high degree of self-direction in all aspects of the project work, including defining specific milestones and deliverables. There will be regular coaching from an Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship team member. Previous design experience required.

Cross-listed with IDEA459. Credit only granted for IDEA459 or IDEA659.

When you think of classical music, do you picture ball gowns, men in powdered wigs, and music to fall asleep to? For many, these common misconceptions create barriers to encountering live classical music. The Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship partners with the National Orchestral Institute + Festival to challenge long-standing assumptions and explore the potential for belonging, experimentation, and awe that live classical music offers. This interdisciplinary design studio serves as a collaborative, experiential space to explore and develop ideas for future NOI+F festivals. We'll cover tenets of Experience Design like Phase 0, relational empathy, immersion, world building, and diagramming, and draw on practices such as Futuring, Improv, and Human-Centered Design to create innovative, audience-centered experiments. Whatever your experience level with classical music, design, or powdered wigs, you'll deepen your creative intuition and uncover new ways of working and thinking.

Restriction: Must have permission of Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Repeatable to 6 credits. Additional information: For more information on design see https://innovation.umd.edu/about-us/what-design. Contact department for information to register for this course.

Graduate students will work on a self-selected challenge and/or real-world project using design tools and methods, with an emphasis on employing a human-centered, creative problem-solving approach. This course requires a high degree of self-direction in all aspects of the project work, including defining specific milestones and deliverables. There will be regular coaching from an Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship team member. This course may be taken as a component of the Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship's Innovation Fellowship program.