===== Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas =====

Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

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=== Prelude ===

  * Attendance list
  * Reminder: Felix will be traveling (BUT Esteban will take over AND there is still the homework to do…)
  * Access to lectures and case-study presentation template via //NYU classes/ressources//
  * In preparation for your case-study presentations Felix will share his //Golden Rules for Presentations// next week.

=== Interlude ===

  * What is this course about? => What is Design? (15 min, short overview by Felix)
   * Felix's summary on //Moodboards// (5 min)

=== Overture (Project Colloquium) ===
  * We talk through one/two example GanttCharts from students. (10 min)

  * The iterative design process  (10 min)
    * Opportunity Identification
    * Brief and specification
    * Concept design
    * Design development
    * Detail design
    * Production
  * The iterative Cycle


  * Students present their posters with the three different ideas (5 minutes each => 30 minutes).

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=== Homework ===

  - Create a simple **mind map** around the selected field of interest/the topic we picked for you during todays class. Add symbols or images along with your keywords. (Also check the tutorial "How to create a great mind map". Research Methods for Product Design, p.66–67).
  - Create two **mood boards**. Those should visualise your idea of an audio object. The size of each document should be 30x21 cm (So that it fits to your sketch book):
    * 1x picture collage
    * 1x word collage