Workshop / Summer 2025
Emerging Technology Design Workshop
A focused workshop helping students prototype with emerging technology while keeping human context, ethics, and user value in view.
Critique model
Critique begins with the question of whether a technology should be used, then moves into interaction quality and prototype evidence.
Course
Emerging Media Workshop
Semester
Summer 2025
Level
Workshop
Studio format
Concept framing, constraint mapping, low-fidelity prototypes, speculative scenarios, and group reflection.
Tools
Learning goals
Frame emerging technology through human needs and constraints.
Move from speculative ideas to testable interface prototypes.
Discuss ethical and social consequences of design decisions.
Student outcomes
Students narrowed broad technology ideas into focused prototype questions.
Projects included risk maps, user scenarios, and evidence-based interface proposals.
Teams learned to separate tool novelty from meaningful user value.
Deliverables