• Form groups of three to four students
• Go to the courtyard and look at the three building surrounding it. 
• List as many differences and similarities between the three as you can visually see.
• Create a visual representation of that information that best helps someone to understand it.
• Group critique of work
• Photograph and post your group's work to your e-portfolio 
• Submit the assignment (the URL of that page of your portfolio) through onCampus.

• Pick a partner.
• One person is the recorder, the other is the describer. 
• Sit back to back.
• The recorder has a blank piece of paper and a black Sharpie Marker.
• The describer is blindfolded. 
• The describer is given an object. They must describe the object only in terms of its shape, they may not describe its function or speak about it in any other way.
• The recorder must without seeing the object and relying only on the description provided draw the object.  you will have 5 minutes to complete the drawing.
• Remove blindfold and present you work.
• Switch roles and repeat.
• Post and discuss as a class.

Introduction Activity - Circle,Square, Triangle

You have been (or will be) given an object: A strip of cardboard with three shapes cut out of it. Please follow the instructions below. This is not a test, nor is it a graded assignment. It is simply an opportunity to solve an interesting design problem, and to give me a sense of where you’re at in terms of visual thinking and resourcefulness. Please try to solve this problem without assistance. I am not as interested in the “correct” answer, as I am in how you approach problem-solving, and your ability to persist and think creatively i.e. your “process” . Documentation of your design process is a critical skill for designers and will give me insight into your thinking. Therefore, document your process with simple sketches and photograph(s). Write down some of your thoughts, frustrations, observations and insights as you do the project, and bring the actual object (your solution) and the cardboard strip with you to the first day you have “in -person” class. Be prepared to share your work with the class.

Instructions:

Create a single three-dimensional object out of whatever materials you have at hand.

The object must be able to pass COMPLETELY through ALL THREE of the cutout shapes in

the cardboard strip one opening at a time.

The edges of the object must fit all of the shapes exactly (or very nearly so).