Reframing Experiences
DI Challenge Based Innovation Course: “Reframing Experiences” Engages Students in Local Communities
Students in the Reframing Experiences course participate in hands-on, project-based, experiential learning activities in which they engage a range of local communities to gain a deeper understanding of the social and ecological fabric that makes the region unique. Students collaborate through interdisciplinary teams to create an immersive, public-facing exhibition in the Design Innovation Hub. The exhibition blends live performances, new media storytelling and immersive media technologies to help viewers get in touch with the limitations of their own experience by learning about the experience of others.
This course brings together faculty from Design Innovation, Music and Emerging Media and Technology, as well as students from a wide range of disciplines including Performing Arts, Emerging Media and Technology, Visual Communication Design, Journalism & Mass Communication and Communication Studies. By drawing on the expertise of their peers and of faculty, students have a broad range of skills and technologies to work with including live and recorded musical performance, musical composition, 3D scanning technologies, VR projections and augmented reality.
Some of the projects completed in the Fall 2020 course included:
Frequency of Solace
Student team created an original composition and video for the Music Settlement in Cleveland
View the Frequency of Solace video
Akron Civic Duty
Students collaborated on a 3D experiential website focused on the history of the Akron Civic Theatre
Visit the Akron Civic Duty website
We Are Someday
One team created interpretations connected to a research plot in Cuyahoga Valley National Park
View the We Are Someday video