For my social experiment, I would have a student designer in my class rank five classmates from best to work with to worst to work with. Maybe run this experiment with each of the classes in the program. I chose a lower number of participants because I think the experiment could also work for faculty ex: Erik Fadiman ranks Marc over Jason etc.
I think this is an interesting experiment because it resembles the structure of job interviews, where a hiring manager ranks someone as ultimately “the best to work with.” Additionally, one of the guest speakers this quarter talked about how it isn’t a good idea to always say yes to working with friends, and I think it’s interesting to see how people draw those lines between personal friendship and work collaboration.