Precedent research is a key part of the design process as it exposes students to a wide range of explorations in a similar design space. Review precedents with students, support reflection, and encourage students to look for increasingly relevant precedents throughout their design process. 

For example, if you're leading a studio on alternative monument design, you might share the following precedents with students: Craig Walsh Projection Monuments, Utoya Island Sliced for Victims of Gun Violence, Digital Covid Memorials. 

When searching for precedents to show your students, consider providing options for each of the following categories. 

• Conceptual precedents explore ideas related to the studio through critical analysis of a wide range of largely art-based projects. 
• Aspirational precedents look at cutting-edge or futurist implementation of technology as related to the studio topic. 
• Comparable precedents look at nascent or current projects, often in the marketplace, that relate to the theme of the studio at a design and technological level that students can reasonably achieve within the course of the Studio.