Students will launch the project by noticing ownership in their shared space, connecting those observations to belonging and community care, and generating one original idea that can later be expanded with AI.

Students will gather empathy evidence about belonging and ownership, organize needs and assets into a design brief, use AI to expand one original idea into multiple visual directions, and revise a selected concept after structured peer feedback.

Students will present their ownership portfolio artifact and AI-supported idea prototype to instructors, show how feedback shaped revisions, and explain the design choices they kept, changed, or rejected.