Fall 2025 Interiors Electives
The School of Interiors' Fall 2025 electives explore design history and theory, as well as the development of textiles through both digital and hands-on methods. Electives are open to all design students. Full course details listed below.
ID 359-001/ID 559-001: Soft Space - Collective Craft and Spatial Textiles
MWF 12:00-12:50 p.m. | Prof. Jennifer Meakins
Throughout this course, students will investigate the relationship between craft, spatial design, and experience employing hands-on making, material experimentation, and collaborative exploration. Students will engage in readings, discussions, and workshops to learn about and test a range of craft techniques, including weaving, quilting, and soft construction, along with digital tools, such as digital knitting, Grasshopper, and coding. Working in the College of Design’s SoftLab, students will move between hand-making and machine processes to test how textiles can shift in scale, structure, and use. The course will culminate in a collective project that will allow students to apply their explorations in response to site, material, and collaboration. This course is open to all students interested in making, materials, and spatial experimentation—no prior experience with textiles or related equipment is required.
ID 359-002 / ID 561-001: Advanced History & Theory
TR 2:00-3:15 p.m. | Prof. Renee Martin
This course will examine major movements in design history, current discourses in design theory, significant people and ideas both through topical and chronological explorations. Focus will be placed on two- dimensional and three-dimensional forms of design as expression of human values.
