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Climbing for Everyone: An Introduction to Route Setting with Touchstone Climbing
June 5 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
$40.00
This event introduces designers to the world of route setting — part craft, part performance design, part puzzle-making — and opens a conversation about what our disciplines can learn from each other
As an emergent design discipline, route setting is focused on creating artificial climbing experiences. Route setters utilize plastic, fiberglass and wooden elements to create novel 3d puzzles that require mental and physical problem solving techniques to solve.
Through hands-on exploration, event participants will discover how route setters design for a multitude of bodies and abilities — creating experiences that teach climbing skills to beginners and veterans alike.
Walk away with a deeper understanding of what it means to design for the full range of human experience. Route setting’s hands-on approach to user diversity, iterative making, and embodied problem solving offers every designer a new way of thinking about how people move through, interact with, and are changed by the things we make.
Registrants must complete a waiver before participating in this event and are encouraged to do so in advance here.