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In collaboration with the EPACenter youth arts center in East Palo Alto this class is an immersive introduction to contemporary public art practices, with a focus on community engagement, program design and installation. Day trips to local public art sites and collaboration with EPACENTER instructors and youth are included and will introduce students to the work of EPACENTER. Students will work with instructors and community members to research and develop a sustained community partnership with the center and Stanford's Institute for Diversity in the Arts. Students with interests in painting, visual art, design and arts administration will gain a multifaceted look into the process of site-specific public art practice.

The global pandemic, the U.S. unemployment, and the movement to fight racism, has shown us that the world can rapidly change, and when it does that organizations and people that innovate thrive. Design thinking, innovation, agile and many other approaches to problem solving have never been more important. But, often these methods are only accessible to an exclusive club of people who are certified in a methodology and "allowed" to practice design and innovation. In this class, we believe in radical access to design and innovation. We believe that for design and innovation to change the world for the better it has to be inclusive, human centered, and accessible to everyone everywhere. In this course, students learn how to become "innovation-ish", and leverage the foundational mindsets and abilities of design thinking and innovation.We create radical access. We start with the students bringing the problem solving methods they already use and together we create the connections, reframe and refine them as design methods. Then we explore many design methods and highlight the similar elements. We distill these elements and co-create categories to classify the design methods. Then we connect these methods to abilities and embark on a design project in partnership with real world organizations.

This class weaves together a designer's mindset with analogous practices to build space where interpersonal conflict can burn safely and productively to create restorative change. Students will identify a wildfire in their own lives or communities (macro topics that feel impossible to wrangle), break that down (using how-why activities) to a smaller control burn, prototype an experience to wrangle a primary spark, and then build a control burn (an experience or tool design to clarify, guide, and encourage exploration of the primary spark).

In this class, you'll use the joy as the tool to build your design practice. We will explore what it means to center joy in design processes, spaces, systems, and experiences. We'll do this by parsing Joy through four lenses: Understanding, Ritual, Boundary and Connection. The course integrates each students' relationship to joy and joyful practice within themselves. You can expect to hear from joy experts and converts, newbies and seasoned designers, as we all explore what it means to use joy as a tool to design a better world. You (yes, you!) will be both student and teacher.

Our world is increasingly complex and laden with many forms of measurable data. Infographics abound, but whether explicit or not, the stories they tell are all designed. In this hands-on course, students will learn to use mapping and design techniques to sort and synthesize data, unlock insights and communicate information. Students will practice finding insight from both qualitative and quantitative information. Take this course if you are interested in learning how to navigate through and create for the complicated intersection of data and design. This class is for students of all experience levels.nAdmission by application. See dschool.stanford.edu/classes for more information.

Livelihoods are under threat for millions of people all around the world due to factors spanning globalization, climate change, automation, and more. This was true in 2019, but it is even more true now. The impact of Covid 19 especially on the livelihoods of marginalized and vulnerable workforce populations has been catastrophic. To thrive in this uncertain future, humans and their livelihoods will need to be adaptable to changing dynamics while maintaining a sense of agency and purpose. nnWe will invite a cross section of subject matter experts with unique perspectives on livelihoods, as well as, experience designing for marginalized and vulnerable workforce populations to join class each week. They will cover topics ranging from policy, technology, learning, health, etc.

How might we design for communal safety beyond the prison industrial complex? Through recognizing the prison industrial complex as a design problem, we will explore both how established institutions (like prisons and policing) are impermanent and the possibility of designing beyond them for our communal betterment. Together with partners from the community leading the movement to abolish prisons, you will generate new design concepts of freedom and safety. You will evaluate the prison industrial complex¿s inability to invest in communal safety and prototype design ideas that contribute to alternative systems of justice that reject carceral harm. nnnIn order to inform and inspire our work, we will uplift and center the voices of the impacted, particularly incarcerated folks. Students of all backgrounds are welcome, directly impacted folks, and Black and Brown students are highly encouraged to apply. The class will consist of Stanford students as well as underrepresented members of the community and non-traditional students.

In this class, we will explore complex concepts of systemic and interpersonal oppression and racism, understand how these concepts manifest on our campus and in our communities, then design and prototype meaningful interventions for impact.nnWe will stand on the shoulders of giants who have come before us while also blazing entirely new trails of our own discovery. Our communities are relying on us to leverage the momentum of this moment, our voices, and our unique skill sets to deconstruct systems of oppression and racism; let¿s stock our collective toolbox, together.

Explore the creation of black/brown spaces within activism, technology, education, and design. How do we make space for Black and brown genius? In this class you will explore how to use our collective talents to build spaces for us, by us. You'll hear from the best and brightest in design, music, activism, technology and education who will share how they translate, navigate and advocate for the inclusion of Black and brown voices in the halls of power. You'll join other students to explore the myriad of ways Black and brown creators are building for themselves space within existing institutions (and imagining new ones altogether). You'll use these new skills and design thinking to develop a space of your own. Admission by application. Visit https://dschool.stanford.edu/classes for more information.