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…
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 …
Design Field Notes: What If There Were Billions of Designers? // Koraldo Kajanaku
November 9, 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 …
Meet the Fall 2023 Innovation Catalyst Grantees
November 9, 2023
Apply Now to Show Your Stuff @ the Jacobs Winter Design Showcase
November 7, 2023
Career Conversation: Future Tech Show + Tell with Accenture Labs
November 2, 2023
Berkeley students: Join us on Thursday for this enlightening session with Andreea Danielescu and Rosalie Lin from the Future Technologies R&D group at Accenture Labs.
Design Field Notes: Zero Waste System Design // Danielle Elsener
November 2, 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 …
Design Field Notes: Utharaa Zacharias & Palaash Chaudhary of Soft-Geometry
October 26, 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 …
Design Field Notes: Clare Brass, Chief Product Officer at Moree
October 19, 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 …
The New AI Frontier: A Career Conversation with Sara Ortloff, Senior Director of User Experience Design at Google
October 16, 2023
Join us for an exclusive Jacobs Institute Career Conversation with Sara Ortloff, design leader and Senior Director of User Experience at Google. Sara currently leads the UX teams responsible for Google’s developer productivity research, pro…
Design Field Notes: Data Visualization for Experience Design // Tanyoung Kim of Airbnb
October 12, 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 …
Join Jacobs Institute at Maker Faire!
October 9, 2023
Design Field Notes: Designing Identity // Jenny Ha of Lucid Motors
October 5, 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 …
Design for Automotive: A Career Conversation with Nissan’s Head of Global Design Alfonso Albaisa
October 4, 2023
Join this special talk to hear from Nissan’s Senior Vice President for Global Design, Alfonso Albaisa, on the evolution of automotive design and innovation as well as the influence of Japanese cultural DNA on Nissan’s design.
Design Field Notes: Vidhi Mehta, Product Designer at LinkedIn
September 28, 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 …
Learn about the Berkeley Master of Design at an Upcoming Info Session
September 22, 2023
Design Field Notes: The Art of Trusting Robots
September 21, 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 …