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Imagining Prototypes: Writing about Design

Monday, January 13, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Independent Activities Period

Nora Jackson, Karen Pepper

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/03
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

An activity-based writing workshop for anyone who builds anything at MIT and beyond, or who dreams of doing so. The workshop will introduce techniques in writing for designers who rely on written or oral communication to generate interest in a design idea or prototype.

Thursday 1/9 from 1-3 pm: discussion of a pre-circulated reading packet with design writing samples; come to the workshop with an object/prototype in mind that you will write about by Mon 1/13
Monday 1/13 from 1-3 pm: workshop participants present and peer review their design write-ups

 

Contact: norajack@mit.edu and kpepper@mit.edu

Sponsor(s): Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Comparative Media Studies
Contact: Nora Jackson, norajack@mit.edu


Session 1

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Thu 01:00PM-03:00PM 56-169

discussion of a pre-circulated reading packet with design writing samples; come to the workshop with an object/prototype in mind that you will write about by Mon 1/13

Nora Jackson, Karen Pepper


Session 2

Add to Calendar Jan/13 Mon 01:00PM-03:00PM 56-169

workshop participants present and peer review their design write-ups

Nora Jackson, Karen Pepper

Details

Date:
Monday, January 13, 2020
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Event Category:

Venue

MIT Building 56, Room 169
Access Via 21 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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