Ayako Maruyama teaches Experience of Public Engagement at RISD (her alma mater) and The Role of Architecture in Creating a Sense of Place at Boston University, where she completed Master of City Planning degree. She is currently design principal at the Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) based in Roxbury, MA. DS4SI is a space where activists, artists, academics and the larger public come together to imagine new approaches to social change and new angles to address complex social issues. Maruyama’s work, focused on community engagement and social justice, includes leading the production of the Go Boston 2030 Visioning Lab, an unprecedented public space for Boston residents to express their vision for the city’s 15-year transportation plan. As a planner and designer, she works collaboratively and explores the ways in which human-centered design can inform approaches to urban planning and experiencing the built environment.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
ID 20ST-01 - SPECIAL TOPIC DESIGN STUDIO
LevelUndergraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ID 20ST-01
SPECIAL TOPIC DESIGN STUDIO
LevelUndergraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Ayako MaruyamaEnrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Dear Student,
No matter what professional design direction we choose, we will work with people. This studio is about cultivating a people-centric design practice. Public engagement is about listening, and is an intricate process that informs decisions and approaches towards change.
We will begin by co-creating our studio’s space, and practice intentional methods for collaboration and critique. Our first projects will be to find the tools and spaces where we already engage with people. We will learn about concepts like the ‘user’, then interrogate and integrate them meaningfully into our work through understanding our positionality, exercising question design, interview protocols and survey best practices.
Larger projects in this studio will include a collaboratively curated experience for our ID community. We will practice prototyping with smaller sketch models, and at full scale with power tools and found materials. Assignments will be based on creating presentations, short videos, sketches, models and mapping tools. We will learn more about the city of Providence and other communities through case studies, documentaries, field trips, archives, walks and conversations with people. This studio is about finding unconventional connections by studying existing public engagement, learning about its historically complex and problematic contexts and systems, and ethnographic practices, and by designing intentional and inclusive experiences for people.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Industrial Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Industrial Design
ID 247G-01 - GRADUATE THESIS STUDIO I
LevelGraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ID 247G-01
GRADUATE THESIS STUDIO I
LevelGraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM; TH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Ayako Maruyama, Hillel O'LearyLocation(s): Center for Integrative Technologies, Room 217Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course introduces the Graduate Thesis project starting with the development of a research question through secondary research reading methods. This question has its assumptions articulated and verified through experimental making and primary research methods that engage specific audiences for qualitative discourse.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate Industrial Design Students.
Major Requirement | MID Industrial Design
ID 247G-02 - GRADUATE THESIS STUDIO I
LevelGraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ID 247G-02
GRADUATE THESIS STUDIO I
LevelGraduate
UnitIndustrial Design
Subject Industrial Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM; TH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Ayako Maruyama, Hillel O'LearyLocation(s): Center for Integrative Technologies, Room 217Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course introduces the Graduate Thesis project starting with the development of a research question through secondary research reading methods. This question has its assumptions articulated and verified through experimental making and primary research methods that engage specific audiences for qualitative discourse.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate Industrial Design Students.
