Students will engage in immersive research by interviewing peers and teachers about their experiences with school transitions, while actively listening to build empathy and identify key factors contributing to social anxiety.

Students will collaboratively synthesize data from their personal reflections and initial discussions to create a concise problem statement that defines how school environments contribute to social anxiety during transitions, guiding their design focus for the subsequent phases.

Students will brainstorm and collaboratively generate a diverse array of innovative school environmental design concepts that aim to alleviate social anxiety during transitions, drawing upon personal reflection journals and peer experiences discussed during Open Dialogue Day.

Students will create rough prototypes of their environmental design solutions, gather diverse peer feedback to refine these prototypes, and systematically document insights and changes in their personal reflection journals to track their evolving understanding and growth.

Students will present their environmental design solutions to peers and stakeholders, gather feedback, and engage in reflective discussions to validate the impact of their designs on reducing social anxiety during school transitions.