Doctor Knows Best - Information Overload // Studio 105 Student Project, September 2014
Channel: Ethics Lab
Date: 24/09/2014

This is one of four short videos made by students in an experimental Introduction to Bioethics class, Studio 105, offered as a pilot project in EthicsLab. Student groups were given the prompt of either "It's my body" or "Doctor knows best" and only given medium (film) and length (2 minutes or less) as constraints. Students had just one week to design these segments, which were filmed in a maximum of two takes, and due the second week of term.

In Studio 105, students will work on real-world bioethics projects such as genome sequencing, clinical trial design for ethically complex populations, and informed consent procedures, with teachers and partners out in the field. The class is structured to work as a design studio, in which project progress and student learning advance in tandem. Students build bioethics knowledge as they develop resilience, inquisitiveness, and collaborative skills in a setting designed to foster "failing fast, failing early, failing often" as a means of making progress.