Students will enter the project through a fast collaborative watercolor challenge that introduces the essential question, surfaces prior knowledge about technique, and sets expectations for using feedback, community input, and revision in later phases.

Students will gather viewer evidence about how watercolor communicates mood, movement, and meaning; test core techniques in short studies; synthesize findings into an empathy artifact and evidence-based How Might We statement; and use a critique checkpoint to revise early concept directions before moving into prototyping.

Students will turn empathy findings and earlier technique studies into tested watercolor prototypes, gather direct feedback from peers and a local artist, complete two visible revision cycles, and present a stakeholder-facing prototype walk that explains how user evidence shaped their decisions.

Students will present their finished watercolor paintings, artist statements, and exhibition narratives to authentic viewers during a short Meaning in Motion Art Walk, then complete a brief pair conference assessment that traces technique choices, feedback-based revisions, and connections to identity, place, or community.