Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) 2024 Graduate Exhibition
December 21, 2024
Please join the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation for an exclusive showing of capstone work by the Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) 2024 cohort.
Jacobs Winter Design Showcase
December 12, 2024
December 11&12, 2024, 12:00PM~5:30 PM
Join the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and our Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) program for the Winter 2024 Design Showcase—a two-day rotating installation of projects, prototypes and rese…
Jacobs Winter Design Showcase
December 11, 2024
December 11&12, 2024, 12:00PM~5:30 PM
Join the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and our Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) program for the Winter 2024 Design Showcase—a two-day rotating installation of projects, prototypes and rese…
Veins of the Cosmos: The 2024 MDes Graduate Exhibition
December 4, 2024
Dr. Irmandy Wicaksono, MIT Media Lab
November 20, 2024
Irmandy Wicaksono is a transdisciplinary engineer, artist, and designer at the MIT Media Lab. He received his PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT. He weaves electronic devices into soft materials and the fabric of everyday life f…
Meet Jacobs’ Fall 2024 Innovation Catalysts
November 14, 2024
Maya Chen, Product Designer, Cisco Meraki
November 13, 2024
Maya is passionate about empowering and uniting communities through her creative work. A designer of human connections, Maya is particularly drawn to the mechanics behind the forces that bring people together. In practice, Maya’s skills …
Violet Whitney & William Martin, Co-founders, Spatial Pixel
October 30, 2024
Spatial Pixel is building a new kind of spatial computing – one for your space, not for your face. We are Violet Whitney and William Martin, both design researchers, technologists, and professors working out of Philadelphia, PA and New York…
Corinne Okada Takara, Artist & STEAM educator, Okada Design/Nest Makerspace
October 23, 2024
Corinne Okada Takara(pronouns: she/her) is a Honolulu based artist/STEAM educator who creates playful technology and biology integrated art projects. Her public collaborative work explores the use of modern day artifacts to preserve cult…
Joseph Becker, Associate Curator of Architecture + Design, SFMOMA
October 16, 2024
Joseph Becker is the Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where his recent exhibitions include Art of Noise (2024), Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy (2023), Barbara Stauffac…
Jacobs Institute’s Maker Faire Booth Celebrates Student Creations
October 13, 2024
Design Career Conversations with Joey Verberky, New Media Artist & Critical Technologist
October 10, 2024
Joey Verbeke is New Media Artist & Critical Technologist whose background is most closely associated with the practices of antidisciplinarianism, generalism, and technology-enabled creativity.
Jacobs First Gen Lunch & Meetup
September 25, 2024
Are you the first in your family to go to college? Join us for our semesterly event, First-Gen @ Jacobs at the Jacobs Institute of Design and Innovation! We will provide a detailed overview of Jacobs resources, courses, makerspace, perso…
Cal Campus Makerspace Craw
September 18, 2024
Discover all the amazing labs and making facilities at Berkeley! Join this walking tour to see the unique resources offered at each location and learn how you can join the campus’s rich ecosystem of hands-on creativity. Bring your cur…
Design Field Notes: Sara Berkai on Co-Designing with Children
September 18, 2024
This week’s conversation about design practices is with Sara Berkai on Co-Designing with Children. Sara has a background in technology, charity, and education and is founder and CEO of Ambessa Play.
Show Your Projects at Maker Faire with the Jacobs Institute!
September 17, 2024
Fall 2024 Design Career Conversations
September 16, 2024
Jacobs Makerspace Open House
September 25, 2024
The Jacobs Hall Makerspace is an 8000 square foot state of the art fabrication facility available to ALL UC Berkeley students, staff and faculty! Come to our Open House to meet the Makerspace staff, see equipment demos, tour the Me…
Jacobs Back to School Events, Fall 2024
August 28, 2024
Engineering Design Scholars + Prototyping and Fabrication at the 2024 Summer Design Showcase
August 9, 2024
RSVP for the Jacobs Summer Design Showcase on August 9th, 2024
Jacobs Summer Design Showcase
August 9, 2024
On Friday, August 9th, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation summer community will gather to celebrate the accomplishments of our 2024 Berkeley Engineering Design Scholars as well as the students in Fabrication and Prototyping (DES …
Join the Jacobs Student Creative Communications Team!
July 11, 2024
Meet the 2024 Berkeley Engineering Design Scholars
July 5, 2024
We’re Hiring! Join us as Director of Academic Affairs
June 10, 2024
Spring 2024 BCDI Graduation
October 5, 2024
Join us for the Join us for the Spring 2024 BCDI Graduation Celebration on Friday, May 10th from 3:30 to 5:30pm, in Jacob Hall Room 310. Come and celebrate with us as we honor our latest recipients of the Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation! Food and refreshments will be served.
Jacobs Spring Design Showcase 2024
May 3, 2024
Experience the forefront of design innovation with student projects, prototypes, and research at the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase 2024. Explore, engage, and get inspired by students from the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and th…
Jacobs Spring Design Showcase 2024
May 2, 2024
Experience the forefront of design innovation with student projects, prototypes, and research at the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase 2024. Explore, engage, and get inspired by students from the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and th…
Jacobs Spring Design Showcase 2024
May 1, 2024
Experience the forefront of design innovation with student projects, prototypes, and research at the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase 2024. Explore, engage, and get inspired by students from the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and th…
Historical Data, Present-Day Harms: On the Uses and Limits of Data Science for the Study of Social Movements
April 23, 2024
History & Theory of New Media lecture with Lauren Klein Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English, Emory University
Design Field Notes—Hila Mor Ph.D.
April 16, 2024
As part of the Jacobs Institute’s ongoing course DES INV 95, the Design Field Notes speaker series invites a dynamic group of designers, artists, and academics in design-related fields to share their work and practice with our students a…
Design Field Notes—Strange Synergies: Generative AI and the Playful Mind
April 9, 2024
As part of the Jacobs Institute’s ongoing course DES INV 95, the Design Field Notes speaker series invites a dynamic group of designers, artists, and academics in design-related fields to share their work and practice with our students a…
Meet the Spring 2024 Innovation Grant Catalysts
March 27, 2024
Career Conversation with Alan Watts, Senior Exhibitions Creative Engineer at Meow Wolf
March 21, 2024
Alan Watts has spent more than 30 years weaving his left and right brain together. In this Jacobs Institute Career Conversation, he will discuss his beginnings in the arts and how that developed into animation and game programming, datab…
Design Field Notes: Iulia Ionescu, Programme Director Creative Computing and Robotics Postgraduate (PG), University of the Arts London
March 19, 2024
As part of the Jacobs Institute’s ongoing course DES INV 95, the Design Field Notes speaker series invites a dynamic group of designers, artists, and academics in design-related fields to share their work and practice with our students a…
Design Field Notes: Bruce Beasley, Technology in the Hands of the Artist
March 12, 2024
For six decades, sculptor Bruce Beasley has worked in a range of media to build complex, resonant arrangements from simple shapes able to communicate the primacy of form and the complexity of human emotion. This coming Tuesday at 10 AM, B…
My Journey to be ‘Anti-Disciplined’: A Career Conversation with Zoey Zhu, Software Designer at IDEO
March 1, 2024
This career conversation is an exploratory journey into Zoey’s work with emerging technologies and also a manifesto on how to embrace and be comfortable with being multi- or anti-disciplinary.
Apply for the Summer 2024 Berkeley Engineering Design Scholars Program!
February 22, 2024
Design the Future: A Career Conversation with Matthew Carlson, Director of User Experience Design at Adobe
February 16, 2024
What will your career in design look like 5 years from now, or 10 years from now? In this Career Conversation, Matthew Carlson, Director of User Experience at Adobe, will talk about the role of design within different types of organizati…
Campus Makerspace Crawl: Valentine’s Day Edition
February 14, 2024
If you are interested in joining the vibrant community of makers, designers, and tinkerers at UC Berkeley, then join us for a special Valentine’s Day edition of the Campus Makerspace Crawl! See the unique resources offered at each locati…
Jacobs is Hiring: Research & Development Engineer
January 30, 2024
Jacobs Institute Welcomes William Humnicky as Executive Director
January 24, 2024
Spring 2024 Back to School Events
January 10, 2024
Berkeley Master of Design 2023 Graduate Exhibition
December 16, 2023
Join us for an exclusive showing of capstone work by the Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) 2023 cohort. Experience the creations of our talented graduates as they demonstrate thoughtful new approaches, cut across disciplinary boundaries, …
Jacobs Winter Design Showcase 2023
December 7, 2023
Join the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and our Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) program for the Winter 2023 Design Showcase—a two-day rotating installation of projects, prototypes and research, highlighting the work and accompli…
Jacobs Winter Design Showcase 2023
December 6, 2023
Join the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and our Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) program for the Winter 2023 Design Showcase—a two-day rotating installation of projects, prototypes and research, highlighting the work and accompli…
Design Field Notes: Technology as Vocabulary / Discursive Machines // Jurg Lenhi
November 16, 2023
As part of the Jacobs Institute’s ongoing course DES INV 95, the Design Field Notes speaker series invites a dynamic group of designers, artists, and academics in design-related fields to share their work and practice with our students and …