STUDIO

STUDIO

Photo credit: Arekusn, a community table of people designing a beer label, each person have a color pen sketching on an 11x17 titleblock sheet with contemplative faces.

STUDIO

Extended design workshop experience to explore the design process in hands-on, project-based sessions, either online or in-person, where you can keep object(s) and skills to enhance your everyday life. 

DESIGN EXPERIENCE NOT REQUIRED

MARCH 25 THROUGH MAY 3

A six-week course and experience to explore the design process in a hands-on, project-based design experience that allows you to be a designer in a studio setting. You will learn the design process through activities and exercises to design and build a project from concept to a final prototype, With an opportunity to present and exhibit to pupils. Each studio focuses on a different design discipline.

Object: Light

  • Two-hour weekly sessions on Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30PM, beginning March 25

    • No studio on Tuesday, April 15

    Work outside of sessions expected and encouraged (approx. 2-4 hours weekly)

    • Time will vary and dependent on design(er) approach

  • Materials for early design development and light kit provided (final intended object materials not included)

  • Design Process/Thinking

    • Research

    • Ideation/Brainstorming 

    • Design development

    • Prototype/Model making

    • Testing

    Sketching and drawing

    Material budget/estimate

    Presentation

    Review/Critique

    Working light

  • Exhibit project during Design Gym’s Purple Preview on Saturday, May 3, 2:00-5:00PM

Available on select School District of Philadelphia (SDP) half-days, we offer a hands-on, project-based design workshop that allows students to be designers in a studio. Students will learn the design process through activities and exercises to design and build a project individually and/or as a team. Each studio introduces how we see design everywhere and projects based on one or more design disciplines.

  • Available on select School District of Philadelphia (SDP) half-days, we offer a hands-on, project-based design workshop that allows students to be designers in a studio. Students will learn the design process through activities and exercises to design and build a project individually and/or as a team. Each studio introduces how we see design everywhere and projects based on one or more design disciplines.

    • $45 Half-Day 12:30-3:30pm

      • All materials included

      • Includes a snack

    • $20 Extended Care 3:30-5:30pm

      • All attendees encouraged to bring a snack during Extended Care

    • Each studio has a maximum of 10 students

    • Instructors are design professionals of varied disciplines

    • Pick-up option available to Moffet Elementary School

    Must register 48 hours prior to studio to be admitted. Any available seats within the 48 hours prior to studio starting will include a surcharge of $5-$15 per pass.

“Design is a response to social change”

- George Nelson