The design prompts we explore in the classes vary from year to year. Here are some samples:

Personal Geography.
What would a map of your history, your story or something personal look like?

Real Imaginary Mashup.
What would be a real map of an imaginary world look like? 
Or, what would an imaginary layer atop a real world look like? 

Shifted Perspectives.
How might you change the way someone looks at the familiar?

Invisible Made Visible.
How could you take something that is ephemeral or unseen and make it visible?

IMPACT CARTOGRAPHY.
HOW MIGHT YOU USE MAPS AS A SPRINGBOARDS FOR DESIGN INTERVENTIONS? 

NEver not biased
Create a hyper-biased map of Stanford