Course Framework

This course explores creative production in an era where tools allow ideas to be executed almost instantly. Students will use rapid prototyping and AI-assisted workflows to produce a high volume of web-based artifacts while critically examining how speed, abundance, and automation affect authorship, value, and meaning.

The course emphasizes process over polish and reflection over outcome.

Core Questions

• What does it mean to make work when effort is no longer visible?
• How does speed change judgment, taste, and decision-making?
• Can repetition function as research?
• How do we assign value in an environment of infinite output?

Structure

• Students produce one small web-based artifact per week.
• Artifacts may include games, tools, visual experiments, or interactive translations.
• Parallel to making, students maintain a reflective journal documenting intent, failure, and revision.

Major Assignments

1. Weekly Artifacts
   Rapid, functional pieces with minimal polish. The goal is decisiveness, not perfection.
2. Process Documentation
   Short written or visual reflections that make thinking visible.
3. Meta-Project
   At midterm, students frame their accumulated work as a single narrative or experiment.
4. Final Synthesis
   A written or presented statement articulating what their body of work reveals about their creative process and the contemporary web.

Learning Outcomes

Students will:

• Develop comfort with rapid iteration and ambiguity.
• Learn to articulate intent beyond surface aesthetics.
• Understand creative production as research.
• Critically evaluate AI and automation as collaborators, not replacements.
• Build a sustained practice rather than isolated projects.