First activity

You need to create your Personal Design Notebook (a digital document or hard copy document that you are responsible to keep and will be used also for the Summative assessment).

Prompt

The goal of brainstorming is to create a generative list of ideas for potential projects you can continue exploring. Our mission in this studio is to construct sci-fi and futuristic vehicles while learning about renewable energy systems. You will imagine the systems and infrastructure that will change the way vehicles move, how they are designed, who they will transport, and then design new modes of transportation based on your wildest imagination. 

Instructions

Review the Brainstorming deck below to get started with the brainstorming process, and think back to all of your discussions, precedent analysis, and field research thus far. 

Things to consider:

• What problems would exist in this world, and how could you solve them?
• What energy solutions would exist?
• What modes of transit could be harnessed to aid these problems?

Part 1:  Individual Brainstorm

Individually, come up with 10 (or more!) ideas for futuristic methods of transit based on your world-building environment. Explore mass transportation opportunities. Consider transportation for individuals (or animals!). Think outside of the box. This is the time to engage in wild ideas! ( 5 min!) 

Part 2: Partner Brainstorm

The initial list from Part 1 is going to seed the rest of your brainstorming process and facilitate the idea-generation process. Your task is to narrow your list down to 5 project ideas to share with a partner. Let your partner know which of their ideas you think are particularly exciting. Feel free to come up with a few new ideas once you hear about your partner's ideas. Maybe something new occurs to you now. Run with it!  (10 min)

After you rapidly share with one another,  sketch 2-3 of your favorite ideas (5 min!) 

Part 3: Whiteboard Brainstorm!

Now it's your time to shine. Share 2-3 of your favorite ideas with the class using sticky notes on the whiteboard. We need to categorize ideas in clusters based on similarity. 

Note: At this stage of the design process, brainstorming project ideas are shared amongst everyone - no matter who had the idea initially. 

Deliverable and recording

You need to record your choices on your Personal Design Notebook (a digital document that you are responsible to keep and will be used also for the Summative assessment).

At the end of the Collective Brainstorming exercise, you will record on your Personal Design Notebook the idea you would be most excited to pursue. 

Now we will form teams of two after this step. Moving forward, teams will decide which idea to pursue for the remainder of the studio. and record their decision. 

Upload on the Task a copy of the Personal Design Notebook