Arts Entrepreneurship

Architecture - Design the Future, Shape the World: This is your chance to think like an architect, transforming abstract concepts into tangible spaces with other students from around the world. In this hands-on course, you’ll master the fundamentals of architectural design—from exploring building materials and analyzing structures to creating 3D models and developing spatial awareness. Discover how architecture drives the evolution of contemporary styles and shapes our culture as you design innovative architectural solutions for real-world challenges. Your journey will end with a final project that showcases your unique vision and design process.

Graphic Design - Unleash Your Visual Voice: What makes a message persuasive and compelling? How do audiences interpret and make sense of information? This course dives into the powerful relationship between information and influence from a graphic design perspective. You’ll gain the skills to create impactful visual content, exploring design principles, infographics, social media, digital search strategies, social activism, and multimedia storytelling. Through a case study and design-based approach, you’ll work on individual and collaborative projects, content curation, writing, peer critiques, and online presentations.

Data Visualization - Turn Numbers Into Narratives: In a world flooded with data, visualizations cut through the noise to reveal meaning. This course teaches you to collect, organize, interpret, and effectively communicate massive amounts of information. You’ll master data wrangling in spreadsheets, harness the power of charts, and learn to spot both effective and misleading visuals. Using principles from information graphics, visual art, graphic design, and cognitive science, you’ll create your own compelling visualizations using tools like Datawrapper, Tableau Public, and Python.