Basic
Design
field (fêld) noun
A region of space characterized by properties having a determinable value at
every point in that region.
field·work (fêld´wûrk½) noun
Firsthand observations made in the field as opposed to that observed in a controlled
environment.
left field noun
A position far from the center or mainstream, as of opinion or reason.
Design Fields is conceived of as an exploratory, performative and experiential
Foundation Design class. Design Fields stresses process over product and the
cultivation of ideas over applications. It posits that the 'performance' of
those ideas will assist students in authoring informed communications defined
by clarity, conviction and integrity. It insists that students interrogate and
deconstruct contemporary practice, less as critique than as research conducted
in the spirit of inquiry and curiosity. Students are encouraged to learn collaboratively
and discursively in a classroom that functions as a fluid geography of research
zones, as a laboratory, a performative space, a critical and theoretical think-tank
and as a production facility. It invites students to think, talk, debate and
write.
