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Dance and art, meet business: You’re more alike than you think

Berkeley News — Take a look at Collaborative Innovation, an interdisciplinary Big Ideas course that takes place at Jacobs Hall.

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Making abstract ideas tangible: Five questions with Purin Phanichphant

In this Q&A, artist, designer, and Jacobs Institute lecturer Purin Phanichphant discusses visual communication, creative collaboration, and bringing together analog and digital tools.

Student Project

Interactive Coloring Books

In an assignment for a summer course in human-computer interaction, students designed interfaces to support the creative activity of coloring.

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Inside the studio: Teaching Design Innovation

With the two-year anniversary of Jacobs Hall’s opening approaching, faculty members offer a look at how they’re bringing design innovation into the classroom, fostering creativity and collaboration within Jacobs Hall’s studios.

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Getting into the field

This spring, a pair of program series— Design Field Notes, a talk series that invites practitioners to share their work in a Jacobs Hall studio, and Design Field Trips, which allow students to visit professional design spaces —connected students with the Bay Area’s rich design ecosystem.

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Berkeley students present projects in arts and design

Berkeley Arts + Design — Craft and creativity were on display across UC Berkeley’s campus at the end of fall 2016 as students across disciplines presented their final projects of the semester.

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Five Questions with Jingyi Li

Between coursework, research, and all kinds of creative making, student Jingyi Li is a frequent presence at Jacobs Hall. In this Q&A, Li talks about working across disciplines, the Berkeley design community, and more.