Columbia GSAPP
Computational Design Practices
Colloquium 1 Summer 2025
Jerry Zhengrui FigJAM
Research Foundations + Project Outline
Process

Outline the overall process of your research and project development.

Title

A concise title that captures the essence of your project or research theme.

Research Question(s)

What questions does your project raise? What are you curious about? Does your work connect to societal discussions and debates taking place at the moment? Does your work touch on policy proposals for the future of technology and its regulation? Does your research question a socio-technical problem?

Keywords (6)

Provide 6 key terms that summarize the scope and focus of your research.

3 Intersecting Fields

Your project sits at the center point.

Historical Lineage

What historical lineage does your work emerge from? What trajectory are you continuing?

Your Community of Practice

A map of who else is working in this space now or recently [...]

Situated Technology

What is your orientation to the CDP theme based on the readings, discussions, and references shared, or others you may incorporate.

Methods

Which software techniques, data practices, theoretical approaches, art styles, design tactics, conceptual acts, or material processes are emerging as pertinent to your practice?

Computational Design Experiments

Include any images, visualizations, simulations, interactive demos, sketches, photos, models, diagrams, studies, physical experiments authored by you during the semester that are pertinent to your ongoing interests and project development.

Visual Representation

What aesthetic modes are inspiring to you? In CDP, aesthetics is understood as a means of sensory investigation.

Rhetorical Argument

What do you want to say with this project. If design is an argument for something, what is your argument?

Proposal for Drawing Type

What kind of drawing or visual mapping will your project use?

Proposal for Material Gesture

What kind of physical, digital, or conceptual gesture does your work propose?

Capstone Outline

Briefly outline a potential capstone project based on the above research foundations.

The Challenge

What challenges do you foresee in the development of this project?