VPAS 654 Summer Studio Design Thinking

2 credits 36.0 hours
600 level graduate course

Summer Studio: Design Thinking for Art Educators, is sponsored by the National Art Education Association to offer a unique focus and ‘hands-on’ studio design experience in alignment with the National Visual Art Standards. SummerStudio will be held in Kansas City, ‘America’s Creative Crossroads,’ at the host site, the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, in partnership with Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution. Designed to spark the imagination of art educators, administrators, and teaching artists, participants will engage in the innovative process of creative problem solving using *Design Thinking, ‘an inventive process through which problems are identified, solutions proposed and produced, and the results evaluated.’ SummerStudio will be led by a small team of nationally prominent design educators and design experts, including Jack Lew, whose prestigious career includes directorships with Disney and Electronic Arts (EA), Jacob Simons, award- winning Experience Design Director, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum Education Team. Connections will be made between the focus on design and the creative process within the new National Visual Arts Standards and 21st century skills supported by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to promote essential skills for innovative entrepreneurship in a creative economy and inventive solutions to real life problems, including science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) + art (STEAM).

This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course may not be audited.
This course cannot be taken pass/fail.