Students will experience a fast launch into shared-resource dilemmas, connect the simulation to local evidence and stakeholder perspectives, and leave with one grounded case-study direction for the sustainability project.

Students will gather firsthand evidence from community partners, analyze spatial and stakeholder patterns in a local shared-resource issue, and turn those findings into empathy artifacts, checked assumptions, and a feedback-informed problem frame for the next design phase.

Students will turn field notes, maps, and stakeholder evidence into a focused How Might We direction, generate and compare multiple solution concepts, build and test low-fidelity prototypes, revise through peer and expert critique, and prepare a stakeholder-ready case-study presentation that shows how evidence and feedback shaped their proposal.

Students will present their final shared-resource case study booths to an authentic audience, explain how evidence and feedback shaped their solution, and complete a closing debrief that compares their final proposal to their starting ideas and teamwork growth.