Designing Dialogue
Across Disciplines by Revealing Design Process

Raw Expo

Challenge

Create a dialogue and community from different disciplines across 7 colleges

Outcome

RAW EXPO, Cornell's first interdisciplinary exposition of creative process. It challenges 50+ project teams and 500+ attendees from all 7 colleges to reveal the creative process behind their work, establish a common language, and create chance encounters and conversations for future collaboration

Opportunity

How might we create dialogue across different disciplines?

Role

Conducted user research, developed concept and collaborated with team of designers to design program, brand identity and outreach. This was work self-initiated and in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team.

Design Process

1. Identify

The challenge is there are a variety of colleges with different languages that never intersect. Innovation exists at the intersection of different disciplines, how can we encourage dialogue across disciplines? Identified that the connection between all projects and colleges is the design process. Hypothesis: If we can get different projects to expose their process, maybe there is an opportunity for further dialogue and collaboration. Can an architecture student learn from an engineering student based on how they designed the form of their race car through 3D printed molds?

2. Design

One evening, inviting people from all backgrounds to come together to share their work or be inspired. Design adjacencies of exhibits based on similarities or opportunities to collaborate.