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Evolutionary Design: A Conversation with Eugene Tssui

June 10, 2025

Join UC Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) faculty member Pierluigi Dalla Rosa and visionary architect Dr. Eugene Tssui for a conversation on how designers (and humanity at large) can chart new paths forward through evolutionary thinking.&…

Jacobs Spring Design Showcase

May 9, 2025

Please join the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and our Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) program for the Spring 2025 Design Showcase, a three-day exhibition celebrating UC Berkeley student creativity, experimentation, and innovati…

Jacobs Spring Design Showcase

May 8, 2025

Jacobs Spring Design Showcase

May 7, 2025

danah boyd, “Data Are Made, Not Found”

April 24, 2025

danah boyd, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, visits UC Berkeley to discuss the data infrastructure that AI technologies depend on, and how we can better understand the …

Kaiwei Tang, CEO and co founder, Light

April 23, 2025

Kaiwei Tang stands as a beacon of innovation and purpose-driven entrepreneurship. With a deep-rooted passion for reshaping technology’s role in our lives, Kaiwei embarked on a transformative journey that culminated in the creation of The Li…

Hugo Eccles, Founder Director, UNTLD MOTO

April 16, 2025

Hugo Eccles is Founder of UNTLD MOTO which delivers transformational strategy, design, and production for the automotive industry. Together with the world’s top brands UNTLD envisions a new way forward that helps transport brands into the f…

Speculative Ecologies Lab Culminating Presentation

April 5, 2025

Join Berkeley Architecture and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation for the culminating exhibition of the Speculative Ecologies Lab (SEL), an experimental, week-long initiative led by the Room One Thousand journal’s 2025 fellows, A…

Eleanor Mayes, Designer, Media and Accessible Design Lab, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired

April 2, 2025

Eleanor Mayes is a designer at the Media & Accessible Design Lab (MADLab) at the San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. With a background in materials engineering and accessible design, she creates tactile media t…

Announcing the Jacobs’ Spring 2025 Innovation Catalyst Grant Recipients

April 2, 2025

Show your stuff! Call for Independent, Club & Research Projects for the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase

March 31, 2025

Career Conversation with Lucy Greco: On Making Technology a Pathway to Change as a Web Accessibility Evangelist

March 21, 2025

Join us for an inspiring talk by Lucy Greco, a renowned accessibility evangelist at UC Berkeley, who has dedicated her career to making technology more inclusive. Blind since birth and a lifelong tech enthusiast, Lucy has worked on every…

Virj Kan, Founder & CEO, Primitives Biodesign

March 19, 2025

Virj Kan is a designer, engineer, artist, and founder of Primitives Biodesign, a b-corp company that produces advanced materials to drive nature and ecosystem restoration. Working at the intersection of business, technology, and art, she en…

Career Conversation with Marc O’Brien: On Becoming a Climate Designer

March 6, 2025

The Jacobs Institute is pleased to host Marc O’Brien, co-founder of Climate Designers, as he reflects on his journey of becoming a climate designer. He’ll share how his discovery of punk rock in middle school eventually inspired a career in…

Reto Togni, PhD, ETH Zürich

March 5, 2025

Everyday objects, no matter how mundane, shape our identities, actions, and how others perceive us. By understanding these mechanisms, I develop technologies and products that enhance well-being and promote inclusivity – blending scienti…

Baillie Mishler, Chief Design Officer, PROWL Studio

February 26, 2025

Baillie Mishler has worked as a professional industrial designer for over a decade in industry-leading companies such as Steelcase, honing her skills in strategic product development and color-material-finish and growing her passion for …

Corinne Okada Takara, Artist & STEAM Education Specialist, Okada Design/Nest Makerspace

February 19, 2025

Corinne Okada Takara is a Hawai’i based artist/STEAM educator. She works with museums, libraries and after school programs to create workshops that elevate and empower community voices in conversations centered on civic spaces, identity, an…

John Bertolaso, Co-founder & CTO at Materra

February 12, 2025

John Bertolaso is the co-founder and CTO of Materra and oversees product and technology development activities. He has a background in industrial design and mechanical engineering (MEng, MSc, MA) from Imperial College and the Royal College …

Jacobs Makerspace Open House

February 6, 2025

The Jacobs Hall Makerspace Open House is a great opportunity to learn about Berkeley’s AMAZING and WORLD RENOWNED 8,000 square foot design and prototyping lab. Meet Makerspace staff and members, check out equipment demos, pro…

Apply for up to $2000 grants for your independent projects!

January 17, 2025

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

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

Come to Jacobs this Summer for DES INV 22: Prototyping & Fabrication

May 14, 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.

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