MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction to Design Inquiry
- Instructors
- Prof. Edith Ackermann, Prof. William Porter
- Term
- Fall 2001
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 18 other files · 6 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 4.273 · Fall 2004 · Study here
- 4.273 · Fall 2001 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 4.273 Introduction to Design Inquiry, Fall 2001, Prof. Edith Ackermann, Prof. William Porter — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
- Introduction - Bill Porter - Woodland Download
- George Stiny - How to Calculate with Shapes Download
- George Stiny - When is Reasoning Visual? Download
- Ben Loomis - A Note on Generative Design Technologies Download
- John Gero - Genetic Algorithms Download
- John Alex - Everything You Wanted to Know About Computers Download
Assignments
- assignment5.pdf Download
- Assignment 6: Redesigning the Game (Assignment6.pdf) Download
- Evolutionary Mutants (Assignment8.pdf) Download
- Open Experiment (nagakura7.pdf) Download
- Assignment List Download
Projects
- Assignment 1 - A Bottle of Wine Download
- Assignment 2 - The Infinite Corridor Download
- Assignment 3 - MIT Chapel: Form Download
- Assignment 4 - Reading a Building: The Exeter Library Download
- Assignment 7 - Open Experiment Download
- Assignment 10 - Reflection Download
Silent Game Images
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Edith Ackermann, Prof. William Porter, 4.273 Introduction to Design Inquiry, Fall 2001.
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