Metaproject 11

Professor Owen talking in front of the students with the presentation screen on his left side

Student paying attention on the lecture and wearing a mask.

Students watching the Vignelli's documentary at the industrial design space.

Students stand up outside Staach respecting social distancing.

Students sit down at Staach respecting social distancing.

Two people walking around the student posters placed at Staach.

John Aasp, director of RIT City Art Space, talking with the students over zoom in a TV.

Industry partner, Seth, evaluating student's posters at Staach.

Industry partner, Brandon, evaluating student's posters at Staach.

Main poster with the participants of metaproject 11 is placed in the center together with a table where all the scaled models are laid out. On the background, students' posters are all spread all over the room.

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that while we humans are adaptable, our societies and systems have major flaws. By acknowledging this issue, Staach challenged the students to design objects which in their own unique ways, deploy educational content through their function, demanding justice, empathy, sustainability, equity, and inclusion.

The goal of this project is to generate a collection of objects that make us think and inspire positive and meaningful change towards the better world we all seek.

Informed by community and thought leaders’ knowledgeable insights paired with the RIT Vignelli ‘Design is One’ ethos and Staach’s design expertise, the investigation behind each object explores what intentional design really is. The Vignellis taught us that design is a systematic framework for solving the world’s most intractable problems. In this course students enter the dialogue and move it forward with their works.

Students