The first week of a new semester and a new beginning for the team.

This week, the team met for the first time to begin discussing ideas for this project. We had our first instructor meeting and introduced ourselves to the client, the Heinz History Center.

We also took a field trip to see the client’s building and the space we would be designing a prototype for. During this trip, we got to see some of the client’s current exhibitions and get a good sense of how they represent themselves. After the trip, we held a second meeting with the client to establish some basic parameters of the project.

On Friday, we organized our ideas into a composition board and brought it to Mike Christel’s playtest to explore workshop, where we received plenty of feedback to help guide us to a better understanding of what our project should look like.

From this first week, we were able to see some of the history we would be representing with this project, and we hit the ground running with some brainstorming.