Focus Area: Speculative design
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Introducing the fall 2018 Innovation Catalysts grant winners
The nine projects in this grant cycle will tackle a wide range of design and technology challenges this fall, from developing wireless underwater communication to exploring speculative futures for biosensing in public spaces.
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Tearrarium
Created by Critical Practices students, Tearrarium is a device that allows your tears to transform and flourish into new life.
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Five questions with Adam Hutz
In this Q&A, rhetoric doctoral candidate Adam Hutz discusses the “languages of making” and how he’s woven hands-on design and fabrication into his graduate experience.
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KitKast
KitKast reimagines the experience of wearing a cast, enabling novel forms of customization.
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Farm-to-Label
This kit takes a speculative approach to “taking fashion back to its roots.”
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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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Five Questions with James Pierce
James Pierce is a designer and researcher who explores speculative design, design theory, and everyday social practices. In this Q&A, he discusses teaching at the Jacobs Institute and Berkeley’s context for design.