Design It!

Choose Appropriate Design Activities

As the design studio host, we’re responsible for choosing activities that guide everyone through the create-share-critique steps in a fast, effective, and fun way. There are many design activities we could use, though not all design activities are appropriate for architecture design. Try to select activities that are architecturally focused and effective when thinking about the system as a whole.

Here is an example workshop agenda based on the round-robin design activity. The workshop itself might run anywhere from 90 minutes if we’re only exploring initial ideas to a whole day if we’re well prepared and plan to explore multiple parts of the system deeply.

Activity	Timing	Purpose
Introduce the context and goals ...