Students will launch the project by engaging with a real habitat restoration challenge from a conservation partner, sorting multiple lines of evolutionary evidence, and recording initial evidence-based claims that connect past and present organisms to future design work.

Students will gather partner and scientific evidence, organize habitat user needs and biological clues into a design brief, and generate multiple restoration concepts grounded in biodiversity, ecosystem services, and evolutionary evidence.

Students will turn their research and design brief into low-fidelity habitat restoration prototypes, test those ideas with peers and a community partner or representative user, document two feedback-driven revisions, and refine a stakeholder-ready proposal for the Deep Time Design Fair defense.

Students will present and defend their habitat restoration proposals at the Deep Time Design Fair, use scientific evidence from their notebooks and prototypes to justify design decisions, and respond to questions from conservation partners and visitors.