This Spring, we’ll will continue investigating ideas of inclusion through our Design Conversations series, “For Whom? By Whom? Designs for Belonging,” which invites three leading design thinkers to outline design’s blind spots and exclusions, and share their thoughts on possibilities for a future of belonging.
Toshi Anders Hoo leads the Emerging Media Lab (EML) at Institute for the Future, to research and explore the implications of the rapidly evolving technologies and platforms that are transforming human communication. He brings years of creative, new med…
Aaron Marcus is an educator and user-interface designer, considered to be the first graphic designer to work with computer graphics. He’s taught a variety of art practice and design classes from computer art to exhibition design, to design history and …
Join the Jacobs Institute in welcoming Andy Hertzfeld to our Design Pioneers speaker series, where industry leaders across design and technology share stories and insights from their work that has innovated and shaped the way we live.
Andy Hertzfel…
Zahin Ali is an interaction designer at IDEO Chicago, where he leads interdisciplinary design teams working to solve problems through human-centered design practices. Ali’s approach to design is agnostic of the product or medium, believing that good de…
Inclusion, accessibility, and justice are unavoidable terms in debates on design and technology today. It has become clear that fostering belonging requires overcoming design’s perceived innocence — admitting historical and contemporary cases where des…
Mark Cordell Holmes is a SF Bay Area creative professional, who has worked in games, feature animation, and tech over the past 30 years. As a 16-year veteran of the Pixar Animation Studios art department, Mark contributed to a dozen films, including ‘A…
Inclusion, accessibility, and justice are unavoidable terms in debates on design and technology today. It has become clear that fostering belonging requires overcoming design’s perceived innocence — admitting historical and contemporary cases where des…
Controlled Burn: How to Design for the Hard Stuff
Nadia Gathers describes their work as process—helping turn the “mushiness” of being a person into discrete, discernible task flow. They have been part of the team at Code2040 where they helped desig…
David Merrill is a technology executive and startup founder with a background in computer science and human-computer interaction. He is the CEO and co-founder of Elroy Air, which builds large autonomous aircraft systems to deliver goods to remote place…
Inclusion, accessibility, and justice are unavoidable terms in debates on design and technology today. It has become clear that fostering belonging requires overcoming design’s perceived innocence — admitting historical and contemporary cases where des…
Dr. Applestone is an engineer, entrepreneur, and mother, whose mission is to address the labor shortage in the U.S. manufacturing industry and to encourage the hands-on skills needed to build and make things.
She is the co-founder of Daughters of …