Informed Systems

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Attachment 1.1 Interactive media and information design course

An interactive media and information design course was a particularly suitable occupant for the innovation zone of the library’s learning commons because the highly interdisciplinary field lacked an established curriculum. Therefore, faculty members were free to invent curricular and co-curricular means of advancing student learning. Within that intellectual “zone of innovation” (Somerville, 2009), they decided to explore the application of narrative, including its theatrical forms, in the design of content for complex, interactive digital environments. The course scope explicitly acknowledged the modern electronic culture that occupied much of students’ out-of-class ...