Students will launch the project through immersive art and game experiences, conduct user research with community partners, and create empathy artifacts that clarify real audience needs for their live action quest or reimagined art performance.

Students will synthesize empathy research into clear design priorities and an actionable problem statement that guides their live action quest or reimagined art performance, grounding narrative and tool design decisions in authentic audience needs.

Students will generate, expand, and refine multiple creative concepts for their Live Action Quest or Reimagined Art Performance by using structured brainstorming, visual planning, and peer critique protocols. They will apply storytelling, design constraints, and audience needs to develop several viable concepts before selecting one direction to prototype in the next phase.

Students will build and refine testable prototypes of their Live Action Quest or Reimagined Art Performance, including functional 3-item tools, scripted scenes, and scaled exhibition layouts. Through structured feedback cycles with peers and community partners, they will document iterations, test constraints, and revise their designs in preparation for final user testing and presentation.

Students will test their live-action quest or reimagined art performance with authentic users, refine their tool and exhibition booth based on feedback, and present their final work to families and community partners during Boomerang Day.