Focus Area: Social engagement
Student Project
Deconstructing Walls
This project aims to creative an interactive form of protest against myths that create barriers between immigrant and non-immigrant communities.
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Innovation Catalysts program boosts student innovations
This spring, ten diverse student teams unlocked potential in their design projects with support from a new grant program.
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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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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.
Student Project
ReEmploy
ReEmploy is a prototype for a platform to help refugees build their local networks for resettlement and community engagement.
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A look at the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase
Students from 17 courses held in Jacobs Hall — along with clubs and student-taught DeCals that use the building’s resources—presented projects at the 2017 Jacobs Spring Design Showcase.
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Countering extremism with technology
Berkeley Engineering — Every Thursday afternoon, students gather in a light-filled teaching studio of Jacobs Hall to develop technology-based solutions to a very tangible problem: ideologically motivated violence.