Design opportunities digest - October 21, 2022
Amy Dinh
Hello Jacobs Community,
See below for contest opportunities, internship opportunities for the spring, and applications of technology that allow you to understand current world issues such as the Carne Y Arena VR experience for immigrants and refugees.
Cheers!
Amy
General Opportunities
Alternative Breaks Recruiting - Apply by 10/24
AIGA Membership Promotion
New Graduate Course in African American Studies: Theorizing Blackness and Disability (Spring 2023).
Events
Apply now to SCET-Silicon Alliance Pitch Contest! (Applications close Oct.26)
Bay Area Robotics Symposium (Nov. 4)
CARNE y ARENA (Oct 13- Jan 23)
Career
Marketing Collateral for Career Connections: Digital Media & Marketing (Nov. 2nd)
Creative Discovery Internship Program: Spring 2023
General Opportunities
Alternative Breaks Recruiting - Apply by 10/24
Are you interested in learning more about hurricane recovery efforts, farm worker rights, public health, wealth disparity, and more? Join the Alternative Breaks community and explore these social justice issues through community partnership supplemented with education and reflection. Participants enroll in a 2-unit DeCal course in Spring 2023 to prepare for their spring break trip with community partners.
Spring 2023 experiences include:
Bay Area: No Place Like Home: Housing Inequity in San Francisco
Bay Area: Heal Your Planet Heal Yourself (HYPHY): Building Sustainable Legacies Rooted in the Town
Central Valley: The Unsung Heroes Harvesting Your Tomorrow: Exploitation, Immigration, and Resilience
Los Angeles: Striving for Health Equity in Los Angeles
Puerto Rico: Bombiando con Puerto Rico
San Diego: Immigration Isn't a Crime: The Fight for Human Rights at the Southern Border
Click here to learn more about their trips and see the flyer. The priority application deadline is October 24 by 11:59 pm and the final deadline is October 27 by 11:59 pm.
AIGA Membership Promotion
Thinking about joining the AIGA San Francisco community or need to renew your AIGA SF Membership? AIGA is offering new members the rest of this year free when they start a new membership for 2023.
As a member, you'll grow your network and enjoy access to invaluable national resources such as monthly webinars, contracts, and legal guides, extensive research from AIGA Design POV, and save big on the 2022 AIGA Design Conference. You'll also receive news and alerts about events in the Bay Area.
New Graduate Course in African American Studies: Theorizing Blackness and Disability
This readings course will explore how and why white-centered disability studies have changed—or not—through new and emerging texts in Black disability studies alongside foundational Black Feminist and Queer scholarship that provokes questions about (dis)ability outside of the categorization of “disability studies.” Critical focus on methods, pedagogy, and opportunities to tailor the course assignments to
your research.
This class will take place during the spring semester on wednesdays at 2pm. More information can be found here.
Events
Apply now to SCET-Silicon Alliance Pitch Contest!
After a successful first edition with more than 100 team applications, SCET Startup Pitch Contest is back for a second year. Are you and your team working on an early-stage project? Apply to pitch your idea in front of a panel of industry experts and mentors and compete to get up to $3,000 in cash prices.
Applications close by October 26. Teams will be announced the last week of October and the Pitch Contest will happen on November 9, 2022. Find more information at https://scet.berkeley.edu/pitch-contest
Bay Area Robotics Symposium
The 2022 Bay Area Robotics Symposium aims to bring together roboticists from the Bay Area. The program will consist of a mix of faculty, student, and industry presentations. For more details, see the event schedule.
This event will be held on November 4 in the UC Berkeley I-house. Details about transit, directions, and parking can be found here.
CARNE y ARENA
Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Academy Award®-winning virtual reality experience explores the human condition of immigrants and refugees. Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees' personal journeys using state-of-the-art VR technology.
Date: October 13 2022 – January 28, 2023
Location: The Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, CA
Tickets and more information: https://phi.ca/en/carne-y-arena/
Career
Marketing Collateral for Career Connections: Digital Media & Marketing (Nov. 2nd)
If you feel inspired to communicate a creative vision or if you just want to report the facts, join the alumni house for an opportunity to learn what it’s like to work in fields such as public relations, market research, advertising, media planning, social media, film, TV, radio, journalism, and publishing. Get a taste of a myriad of career options through casual networking with Cal alumni & professionals.
This event will be Co-Sponsored by:
UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Berkeley Arts + Design
For details and to register, click here. RSVP is required and only open to UC Berkeley students (all majors and class levels) and eligible Alumni.
Creative Discovery Internship Program: Spring 2023
Internships listed below are part of the new Creative Discovery Internship Program hosted by Berkeley Discovery with campus partners including Art of Writing, BAMPFA, and the City of Berkeley. Students selected for the internships will enroll in a 1 unit Creative Discovery Course (HUM 197) to receive credit for their internship experience and a stipend of $3,000 per semester. The course is designed to support students in creative internships to shape and reflect on their internship experiences.
- Los Angeles Review of Books Communications Intern
- The Dial Magazine Editorial Intern
- Libraries Without Borders Communications & Marketing Intern
- Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Education Intern
- City of Berkeley Civic Arts Program Intern
- I am available via email, scheduled appointment, or drop-in advising
- Currently, I have a flex work schedule. My bCal shows the days I am working from home; if the day is unmarked, it means I am working on campus at 103 Jacobs Hall.