Design opportunities digest
Amy Dinh
- iHackHealth: the Bay Area’s Cross-Bay Appathon
- Tech for Geographers with Professor Clancy Wilmott
- ISF 110: An Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization
- Alternative Meat Challenge Lab: Product Design of Plant-Based Food (INDENG 185 001)
- HUM 10 Indigenous Arts in the Americas: Old and New Media
- Museum of Tomorrow (MoT) Team Recruitment
- Spring Semester Change Lab URAP Research Projects (apply by 1/24)
The Fung Institute, the Fung Fellowship, and UCSF are hosting iHackHealth: the Bay Area’s cross-bay Appathon! UCSF practitioners have proposed mobile app ideas to improve research, patient care and education, and clinical practice.
UC Berkeley students are invited to form interdisciplinary teams to develop these mobile apps as iOS prototypes after an initial virtual kick-off event on January 18. During the two-week development phase, you will utilize Apple's open-source tool kits and iOS developers will provide support.
At the final event on February 3, the winning team will have the option to be fast-tracked into SkyDeck’s incubation process. Join us and learn new skills, add to your resume/portfolio, interact with industry professionals, and pitch your final ideas to innovative leaders at both universities!
🔹Sign up for a proposal: bit.ly/iHackHealth22
🔹Sign up for the kick-off event: bit.ly/iHackHealth22_KickOff
12/17-1/18: Proposal Sign-up Period
1/18: Un-Pitch Kick-Off Event (Virtual), 12-1pm
1/18-2/2: App Development Phase/Apple Office Hours/Build Days
2/3: Final Judging Event (Virtual), 5-7pm
- HTML/CSS/JS - Ever wanted to build a webpage from scratch - or scrape the data from one? This suite of three coding languages are the building blocks of the internet.
- Mapbox GL JS - Maps, maps, maps - for free! Mapbox is the cartographic web design framework - with awesome location capabilities to make your own location-based map.
- Python - What are all those DATA8 kids crying about? Python is a powerful tool for data science and analytics - and super easy to boot. It does the math, so you don't have to.
- Adobe CC - For the designers out there! Bored of Canva and want to make your own designs from scratch with a professional suite of software? This is the place to start. Adobe CC includes Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign - as well as whatever else is loaded on the CAGE lab computers.
- Blendr - 3D animation all the way! This free software allows you to build 3D objects using meshes and skins, add visual effects, and animate.
- Unity - the game engine for beginners interested in making interactive media - it can be used for making games, AR, or VR worlds - as well as models, and environments.
Alternative Meat Challenge Lab: Product Design of Plant-Based Food (INDENG 185 001)
We are excited to announce that the Berkeley Alternative Meat Challenge Lab: Product Design of Plant-Based Food (INDENG 185 001) course will be returning for Spring 2022! This one-of-a-kind program has led to the creation of several venture-backed startups, such as Prime Roots, Impact Food, Black Sheep Foods, and Sundial Foods. The course collaborates with companies in the plant-based food industry to understand the state-of-the-art of designing plant-based food products. Past collaborators have included industry leaders such as Givaudan, Nestle, Merck, Miyoko, Mantiqueira, Department of Defense, Caribou Biosciences, Thimus and others.
The program is a unique experience because students learn about food chemistry, product design, and entrepreneurship at the same time. Students will form startup teams to design and create a plant-based food product prototype. All majors and levels (undergrad/grad) are welcome, and students with backgrounds in chemistry, biochemistry, and food sciences are strongly encouraged to apply. The course also counts toward the Berkeley SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.
The course will be taught by Professor Ricardo San Martin who is a distinguished entrepreneur and educator and Dr. Celia Homyak, chemist and industry expert. You can learn more about the course and the Berkeley Alt:Meat Lab in this recent LA Times article.
HUM 10 Indigenous Arts in the Americas: Old and New Media
HUM 10 Compass Courses Satisfy Philosophy and Values or Arts and Literature Breadth! Compass Courses allow you to study with three professors in one single course. All courses meet the Philosophy and Values (PV) and Arts and Literature (AL) Breadth Requirements. All students are eligible for the Compass Scholars Prize: a $500 department award for the three best student papers.
This class investigates recent Indigenous creative practices—including poetry, film, dance, photography, and textiles—from across the Americas to think about how these forms of making and expression are not discrete but rather intimately woven together. Looking at work from North and South America such as the novels of Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), the auto-ethnography of Davi Kopenawa (Yanomami), the paintings of Carmézia Emiliano (Macuxi), and the experimental video of Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga), we will explore how conventional notions of “old” versus “new” media are irrelevant as these makers, artists, artisans, and writers urgently draw upon historical traditions in order to reimagine alternative futures. Each professor will illuminate a series of keywords - including life, time, story, and nature - from the perspective of their own disciplines (literature, film/media, visual arts) with an emphasis on social justice.
Museum of Tomorrow (MoT) Team Recruitment
Museum of Tomorrow (MoT) at Berkeley is recruiting! MoT is an RSO and a sustainability pop-up museum that uses curatorial experiences to empower behavioral change. In the past three years, MoT has gone from an idea to a running project with 10+ physical exhibits and 20+ partners, including government & private corporations. Whether you are into media, design, marketing, sustainability, business or engineering, we have spots for you (leadership positions as well!). Join us at our virtual info-sessions on January 26th at 5pm (PST) or January 27th at 7pm (PST) to learn what Museum of Tomorrow is all about! Bring a passionate heart, RVSP to our info-session at this link, and we’ll see you soon!
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to MoT’s Founder & CEO at jess...@berkeley.edu.
The purpose of this project is twofold. First, it is to support community-based organizations (CBOs) in developing the competencies and capacity needed for sustainable culture and service change. To begin with, areas of primary focus will be on supporting design, data, and advocacy efforts. This will be done through a process of co-design and co-governance facilitation on research and design efforts; training through doing. The second goal of this project is to define and refine methodologies for disseminating these competencies at scale. As such, this is a technical assistance and research project both on-the-ground and at a more theoretical level.
2) Stories of Transition
Stories of Transition is a new student and peer social impact initiative focused on effectively capturing and disseminating stories of change in later life — seeking to educate, motivate and inspire, and begin to build a social data trust for successfully navigating change and dispel stereotypes while being honest and proactive about the realities of aging. This project, run out of the Berkeley Public Health Change Lab and supported by the Institute on Senior Living, will bring together college students and older adults to digitally collect stories and create a multi-channel editorial and production pipeline to spark public discussion not just about the before and after of life transitions, but the path through. The main methods of story collection will be a mix of student and peer journalism with the goal of creating competency within communities for collecting and amplifying their own stories to create social change.
Amy Dinh
- Club Signup for Design at Berkeley's Design Fair (1/23)
- Applications for the 2022 Lyman Fellowship (due 2/1)
- Fung Fellowship (2/18)
- IEEE Hands-On PCB Engineering DeCal
- 2022 Core77 Design Awards
- Open Computing Facility
- Berkeley Art Studio: Still time to register!
- Demystifying Data Visualization (1/27)
- Girls in Engineering (GiE) Program Assistant
- Open Rank Professor in AR/VR, Media Arts and Social Engagement
- Career Connections Events Spring 2022
Applications due: February 1, 2022
The Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship in New Media, established in the memory of an esteemed UC Berkeley faculty member, provides a summer stipend to a UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate to support the writing of his or her Ph.D. dissertation on a topic related to New Media.
Some preference will be given to those doing research related to children and youth, to BCNM Designated Emphasis students, and to projects that focus on women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Global South, ability diverse, and socioeconomically disadvantaged peoples as makers and users of new media. If relevant, please explain how your project foregrounds one or more of these communities. Originality and quality of research are, however, the primary criteria.
The amount of the stipend depends on the size of the fund. In Summer 2021 the fellowship amount was $6,000.
For more information and to apply, click here!
The Fung Fellowship is a unique opportunity for rising juniors and seniors to create impact-driven solutions to address real-world challenges alongside our community and industry partners. Through 3-unit semester courses, Fung Fellows utilize the iterative human-centered design process, interdisciplinary tactics, and emerging technology in both of our offered tracks: Conservation + Tech and Health + Tech.
The Fung Fellowship accepts all majors into the program and there is no GPA bracket. Applications are reviewed holistically.
Information to Apply:
Refer a friend to learn more: bit.ly/ffreferral2022-23
Express interest to learn more: https://bit.ly/FF22-interest
RSVP for an upcoming info session on February 2 or February 9
Apply by Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:59pm PST: https://bit.ly/ffapp2022-23
Visit our website to find out more: http://ieee.berkeley.edu/hope or enroll at https://bit.ly/HOPE-sp22-enroll
Our comprehensive program honors the industry's very best design work across 18 distinct categories. After over 10 years, our awards program remains dedicated to excellence and inclusivity, offering both students and professionals the opportunity to promote their best work on a global scale.
The 2022 Core77 Design Awards also introduces to its roster an exciting new category—The Sustainability Prize. This prize will be open to any eligible projects submitted across all 18 categories. This year's prize will be judged by a leader in the industry yet to be announced and chosen based on the criteria of inventiveness, impact, and research & strategy. Read more about the Sustainability Prize here.
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Beyond another line on their LinkedIn profile, honorees get their work showcased across the Core77 blog and beyond, adoration by your peers, visibility by esteemed designers in your field, as well as a beautiful trophy designed by New York studio Rich Brilliant Willing.
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- A spiffy computer lab in 171 MLK Student Union
- Web & email hosting for thousands of student groups and individuals
- Free printing for all UC Berkeley students
- Shell accounts on our powerful on-campus servers
- High-performance computing on our GPU server
- ...and lots more!
The Art Studio is delaying the start of our winter classes by two weeks to align with the latest changes to the start of the UC Berkeley Spring semester.
See our new session dates below:
- Winter Session: January 31 to March 20
- Spring Recess: March 21-27
Click here to apply or visit http://jobs.berkeley.edu/ (search for job # 28247)
Our department values accomplished designers and researchers with interests in creating powerful experiences for people through the design of artifacts, environments, and services, and advancing the field of design research and scholarship. We follow integrative and holistic approaches to design, grounded in cultural practices and behavioral arts, and embrace creative research questions of how technologically mediated action is lived, felt and valued. Our diversified faculty and student work explores perspectives on human experience as a process of making sense of the world, participating in culture, and engaging with community.
The position will be joint with another relevant Northeastern University College depending on the candidate’s profile and research interests. Potential joint appointments include the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, the College of Engineering or the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Art, Architecture, and Design | Thursday, February 10, 2022
Are you passionate about a career in art, architecture and/or design but aren’t sure about what careers are out there for you if you decide to take that path? Do you have a creative side? Come and connect with alumni and professionals in a multitude of fields involving arts, architecture, design, and/or technology! Come ask questions and get to know past CAL students and professionals that might’ve been in your shoes before.
Tech for Good | Thursday, February 24, 2022
Are you in tech and want to have a career where you feel good about the work you are doing? Come explore the intersection of tech and social justice with alumni and professionals in a variety of technical and non-technical roles in Social Enterprise, Educational Technology, Healthcare, CleanTech, NGOs/Non-Profits, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and more!