IDSD 2870 - Sustainable Holistic Design

The textbook Designing for Privacy + Related Needs is also used in IDSD 2860 and IDSD 4870.

• Understand that human and environmental conditions vary according to geographic location and impact design and construction decisions.
• Understand how social, economic, cultural, and physical contexts inform interior design.
• Understand how systems thinking informs the practice of interior design.
• Recognize current and relevant events that are shaping contemporary society and the world.
• Recognize a variety of cultural norms.
• Demonstrate multi-cultural awareness.
• Recognize the integration of multi-disciplinary collaboration in design practice.
• Understand the dynamics of team collaboration and the distribution and structure of team responsibilities.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively collaborate with multiple disciplines in developing design solutions.
• Define the contexts for interior design practice.
• Define the components of business practice.
• Understand professional ethics and conduct.
• Understand theories related to the impact of the built environment on human experience, behavior, and performance.
• Understand the relationship between the natural, built, virtual, and technological environments as they relate to the human experience, well-being, behavior, and performance.
• Gather and apply human- centered evidence.
• Analyze and synthesize human perception and behavior patterns to inform design solutions.
• Apply human factors, ergonomics, and universal design principles to design solutions.
• Apply way finding techniques to design solutions.
• Apply space planning techniques throughout the design process.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to solve progressively complex design problems.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to identify and define issues relevant to the design problem.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, schematic design, and design development.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to synthesize information to generate evidence-based design solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to design original and creative solutions.
• Apply knowledge and skills learned to execute the design process: pre-design, quantitative and qualitative programming, schematic design, and design development.
• Understand the importance of evaluating the relevance and reliability of information and research impacting design solutions.
• Recognize a range of problem identification and problem-solving methods.
• Recognize innovation and risk taking.
• Recognize methods of idea generation and design thinking.
• Effectively interpret and communicate data and research.
• Effectively express ideas and their rationale in written communication.
• Effectively express ideas developed in the design process through visual media: ideation drawings and sketches.
• Effectively express project solutions using a variety of visual communication techniques and technologies appropriate to a range of purposes and audiences.
• Demonstrate active listening skills in the context of professional collaboration.
• Understand the elements and principles of design, including spatial definition and organization.
• Demonstrate the ability to explore a range of two- and three-dimensional design solutions using a variety of media.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to two-dimensional design solutions.
• Effectively apply the elements and principles of design and related theories throughout the interior design curriculum to three-dimensional design solutions.
• Understand color terminology.
• Understand color principles, theories, and systems.
• Understand color in relation to materials, textures, light, and form.
• Appropriately select and apply color to support design concepts.
• Appropriately select and apply color to multiple design functions.
• Appropriately use color solutions across different modes of design communication.
• Understand how furnishings, objects, materials, and finishes work together to support the design intent.
• Understand the principles of indoor air quality.
• Understand how the selection and application of products and systems impact indoor air quality.

IDSD 2870 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

 

Required Textbooks:
Environmental Psychology for Design - ISBN: 9781501321801

Designing for Privacy + Related Needs - ISBN: 9781563673405
Required Course Materials:

• Drawing Media-drafting pencils and pens
• Rolls of trace paper (“bum wad” or “trash”)
• Scale
• Straight edge
• Sketchbook
• Model making materials-paper, glue, tape, x-acto knife and blades, matte board, chipboard, cardboard, etc.
• Drafting Tools
• Markers
• Vellum
• Computer-drafting and adobe suite programs