Go to a Museum and spend time with at least one work of art. The Carnegie Museum of Art is free to CMU students and open every day except Tuesday: see http://www.cmoa.org/visit/ Pick one realist...more

Build on the warm up to build a series of windows on your neighborhood that supports and expands the story you're trying to tell with data. Produce a 3x3 grid of 'data windows' that illustrates ho...more

Develop a speculative / conceptual design for a martian garden and propose a series of ‘tools’ that will be used to tend our Martian garden.

Create an ‘animated GIF’ (loopable audio-video) explores perception; the end result should be a poetic composition which is both beautiful and interesting.