{"id":18663,"date":"2024-12-19T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18663"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:24:51","slug":"at-the-rhode-island-school-of-design-students-eat-their-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18663","title":{"rendered":"At the Rhode Island School of Design, Students Eat Their Homework"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the first meeting of the industrial design class he took this fall, Zhiye Lin knew he was at a disadvantage. The other 10 students were experienced cooks. Mr. Lin was not.<\/p>\n

\u201cI basically started from zero,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This might have hurt his grade in a cooking class, but not in this one, at the Rhode Island School of Design<\/a> in Providence, R.I. Called Designing Food, the course asks students to choose recipes at the start of the semester that they will cook, share with the class, and cook again. And again. And again. With each new try, they\u2019ll make changes as they pursue their own ideal version of the dish.<\/p>\n

The point is not to learn how to barbecue char siu pork or laminate pastry dough, although some students did those things. The goal is to understand iterative design, a method of improving products through repeated cycles of testing and tweaking. In other words, Designing Food is one of the rare college classes where you really can get credit for being the most improved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Erica Pernice, who has been teaching the course since 2021, said that by focusing on simple recipes that can be cooked in a few hours or less, the students can work through four or five iterations in a semester. This wouldn\u2019t be possible if they were designing, say, an electric car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Erica Pernice, the instructor, said that a recipe can go from a rough prototype to an ideal form in a semester, faster than many industrial-design products.<\/span>Jillian Freyer for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe never had enough time to do that properly in school,\u201d said Ms. Pernice, who graduated from the school in 2014 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in fine arts. \u201cYou get out into world and discover the process is much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From the first meeting of the industrial design class he took this fall, Zhiye Lin knew he was at a disadvantage. The other 10 students were experienced cooks. Mr. Lin was not.\u201cI basically started from zero,\u201d he said.This might have hurt his grade in a cooking class, but not in this one, at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I. Called Designing Food, the course asks students to choose recipes at the start of the semester that they will cook, share with the class, and cook again. And again. And again. With each new try, they\u2019ll make changes as they pursue their own ideal version of the dish.The point is not to learn how to barbecue char siu pork or laminate pastry dough, although some students did those things. The goal is to understand iterative design, a method of improving products through repeated cycles of testing and tweaking. In other words, Designing Food is one of the rare college classes where you really can get credit for being the most improved.Erica Pernice, who has been teaching the course since 2021, said that by focusing on simple recipes that can be cooked in a few hours or less, the students can work through four or five iterations in a semester. This wouldn\u2019t be possible if they were designing, say, an electric car.Erica Pernice, the instructor, said that a recipe can go from a rough prototype to an ideal form in a semester, faster than many industrial-design products.Jillian Freyer for The New York Times\u201cWe never had enough time to do that properly in school,\u201d said Ms. Pernice, who graduated from the school in 2014 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in fine arts. \u201cYou get out into world and discover the process is much longer.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18649,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18665,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions\/18665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}