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classes in costume design, fashion history, and
fashion sustainability. In 2017, Capps was on
the committee for the incorporation of human
centered design across Vanderbilt's campus. Her
classes are part of Vanderbilt's DIVE (Design as
an Immersive Vanderbilt Experience) Program,
aimed at empowering students to be problem
solvers who can improve the world around
them through engaging as both designers and
scholars. As faculty and as a member of the
advisory council, Capps works with Vanderbilt's
Next Steps Program for students with
intellectual disabilities. She is currently
developing an adaptive fashion lab at the
Wond'ry, with the help of a team of Next Steps
and traditional Vanderbilt students, to serve
people with physical disabilities by customizing
clothing that melds form and function and thus
builds inclusivity. Capps celebrates how the
process and product of design, through all
mediums, most especially textile art, enhances
the quality of our lives and relates to important
issues in our contemporary world. Capps holds a
B.A. in Theatre from Middlebury College and
an M.F.A. in Stage Design from Northwestern
University.

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Sample Student Assignment:
Brainstorming Your Final Class Project Ideas and Approach
YOUR MISSION
1. Help my partner further their overall vision for their final class project, or just a segment of it about
which they feel unsure, through discussion and brainstorming.
2. At the end of the next 24 minutes, present my partner's project to our Zoom class including my
suggestions and handmade prototype, intended to advance their project vision.
YOUR WORLDVIEW
As a final class project, we are tasked with creating a Coronavirus-response-inspired sustainable
fashion design line/company. Through our projects, we need to educate others about our mission
to connect fashion sustainability to the international fight against COVID-19 as it relates to global
warming and inspire them to believe in our vision and ideas.
Step 1: Interview
Begin by gaining empathy for your partner's project idea and hoped-for outcomes.
Interview your partner about their final project objectives, ideas, and approach.
(3 minutes each, total time 6 minutes)
Step 2: Reframe the problem
Capture findings (2 minutes)
Needs: Objectives your partner would like to achieve within the scope of their project**** Use verbs
Step 3: Define the problem statement and offer an insight.
My partner needs a way to ________________________________ (the users' need)
Insights: New learning about your partner's feelings/worldview they need to leverage in their design
(1 minute)
Unexpectedly, in his /her world, _________________________________ (insight)
Step 4: Brainstorm radical ideas!
IDEATE (form ideas/think): GENERATE ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM
Sketch/design 3-4 radical/crazy!/wild! ways to meet your partner's needs/requirements for their
final class project
(5 minutes)
Step 5: Brainstorm new solutions!
ITERATE (perform or utter repeatedly, to do again and again) BASED ON FEEDBACK
Reflect and generate new final project solutions for your partner.
Sketch your big idea, note details if necessary! (4 minutes)
Step 6: Build something with your hands!
BUILD AND TEST
Build a Solution for your partner.
Make a prototype, of your idea(s), either 2 or 3 dimensional, to move your partner's project
forward
(6 minutes)
Step 7: Come back to full Zoom class
Come back to Zoom and describe to the class:
1. Y
 our partner's vision for their project and their hoped-for end goals
2. Your design to help you further your partner's ideas for their final class project, including
the prototype you made for them

The Wond'ry, Vanderbilt's Innovation Center,
accessed September 8, 2020, https://www.
vanderbilt.edu/thewondry/

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