Design-Build Studio Workshop (Sep-Oct 2024)

6 Wednesdays, September 11 – October 16, 2024
1-4pm
Lead designer: Rick Loduha of R&B Design
Skyline Commons Room 102
Class fee: Sliding scale, $50–150 / student 

$150 is the full cost of the class. If you're able to fully support the the school and instructor at this rate, no code is required for purchase. 

To pay $100 for this class, enter the code DESIGN100 at checkout.

To pay $50 for this class, enter the code DESIGN50 at checkout.

Registration closes September 4 or when sold out. Questions? Email clare.zuraw@finlandiafoundation.org

Design Thinking. Noetic Skills. Creative Problem Solving. Making ideas into real things. These universal principles are especially honored in Finland, evolving from the Finn’s long tradition of elegant, functional design. The Design-Build Studio workshop invites you on a six-week journey into your design mind. A taste of how to creatively approach challenges, generate new ideas, and bring those ideas to life.

Design-Build Studio meets on Wednesdays at 1pm. For the first hour of each session we will explore the design process, design thinking, right brain/left brain balance, kinetic hands-on learning, and how to tap into each designer’s unique intuition and creative insight. The remainder of the time will be a trial and error playground where your ideas begin to dance with reality. You may come away with something you designed and built, but more importantly you’ll come away with an empowered life perspective as a creative problem solver.

Don’t know if this workshop is for you? If you want hands-on design-build experience, Design Studio is for you. If you would like to tap into your deepest creative self and generate ideas and solutions to address any challenge anytime, Design Studio is for you. If you are interested in integrating mind, body and spirit in all things, Design Studio is for you. If you have books, sundries or the like and you want to design and build a way to hold or display them, but you’re not sure what or how to go about it, Design Studio is for you. Design Studio is NOT for you if you think you already know exactly what you want, how it should look, and just want help building it.

Students who want to continue their path beyond the 6 weeks are invited to enroll in future Design-Build Studio sessions (schedule TBA).

A professional designer since 1972 and design educator since 1990, Rick Loduha researches sustainable design strategies and has taught sustainable design at the University of Illinois, the University of Louisiana, and Finlandia University. In 1996-97 he headed a sustainable development project in Haiti, W.I. and his sustainable design work has been published internationally.