This course is an introduction to designing for learning and engagement. Leveraging a  “seminar plus field-based project” model, the course supports the exploration,  interrogation, and redesign of environments, drawing on theories of learning that  emphasize the interconnections between people and contexts. The core tools that we  leverage in this course, both as analytic tools and as design frameworks, are theories  of learning, focusing specifically on theories that account for the ways that social,  historical and cultural contexts and the resources of a particular environment  inextricably frame and saturate human activity.