Discovery Elementary School’s Seat Design Challenge invited 83 fifth graders to re-imagine the design of furniture to create a novel space in their school. Through a collaborative effort involving students, teachers, researchers, and design professionals from VMDO, VS America, and Public Workshop, the Seat Design Challenge featured a maker curriculum that covered a 6-month period - from an initial discovery and research phase to a high-intensity 2-week prototyping workshop. During this 2-week stretch, students worked in teams to create and pitch their innovative ideas about furniture and space.
Lessons learned from the Seat Design Challenge offer new insight on how to integrate design-thinking into school curriculum. Building on the traction of STEM and project-based learning, this project successfully combined art, design, engineering, and architecture to inspire students to take creative ownership of their ideas and apply them in a real-world scenario. This project proves how design-thinking curriculum can engage students in becoming experts in their learning process - and you’ll be amazed at what the students created!
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