Students will investigate how Community Cultural Wealth appears in their own lives and local communities by engaging directly with real people, documenting interviews, and constructing structured empathy maps that surface strengths often overlooked by dominant narratives.

Students will synthesize interview data and empathy artifacts into a clear, evidence-based problem definition that names a specific user, core need, and insight about Community Cultural Wealth. They will identify patterns across multiple interviews, challenge assumptions, and craft a well-scoped How Might We statement grounded in user evidence that will guide ideation in the next phase.

Students will generate and evaluate multiple exhibit concepts for their Community Cultural Wealth museum installation, using user evidence and their ‘How Might We’ statements to move from divergent brainstorming to a clearly justified top concept ready for prototyping.

Students will build and refine low- to higher-fidelity prototypes of their Community Cultural Wealth museum exhibits, test them with real users, and document how feedback shapes revisions before moving to the final exhibition phase.

Students will conduct a final validation round of their Community Cultural Wealth museum exhibits with new users, refine their installations based on documented feedback, and present as docents at a public exhibition. They will explicitly trace their design decisions back to interview evidence, Community Cultural Wealth theory, and multiple prototype iterations.