Upcoming@Jacobs: March 8th 2023

[Amy Dinh]

Dear Jacobs Community,

This week's Jacobs newsletter is super-sized and has design opportunities that include several events happening *tomorrow* as well as summer programs and jobs that you can apply to.

We also invite you to help us with one of our own in-progress design projects: reimagining the Jacobs Student Welcome Center (SWC) on the first floor of Jacobs Hall. Read about all that and more below!

Best,

Amy

Fill out Jacobs Hall New Student Welcome Center Survey!

Join us in reimagining the Jacobs Student Welcome Center (SWC), which will occupy two spaces: the west entrance lobby and Room 103.  The new welcome center will serve as an accessible, engaging place for students to get information, resources, and opportunities for exploring design and technology.

If you are a student at UC Berkeley, we would love to hear your input by filling out this quick survey by next Wednesday, March 15th. If you have any questions, reach out to Grisel Chavez.

*Tomorrow* Mar 2: Design Field Notes w/ Igor Galligo

Each semester, the Jacobs Design Field Notes speaker series invites a dynamic group of designers, artists, and academics in design-related fields to share their work and practice. Each talk is free and open to all students and members of the public. View the full speaker lineup here and subscribe to the Design Field Notes Google calendar here. This week's talk is:

AUTOMEDIA: For a grassroots media design revolution! 

Igor Galligo / Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley, Founder of Noödesign.org, Founder of Automedias.org

Thursday, March 9 | 10-11am | Join the talk with this Zoom link 

Igor Galligo is a French researcher in philosophy, media science, and design, who worked for several years with Bernard Stiegler at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris. In 2018, he founded NOÖDESIGN.ORG, a think tank working on the relationship between digital devices and cognitive operations from the paradigm of general organology. In 2022, he founded AUTOMEDIAS.ORG, a platform that brings together researchers, software engineers, and political media activists to design a new information production model, based on a contributory design process.

*Tomorrow* Mar 2: Get the BIG WIN from BIG GIVE!

Many of you are probably aware that BIG GIVE — Berkeley's annual campus-wide fundraising blitz— is this Thursday, March 9th!  

BIG GIVE is an all-hands opportunity to support Jacobs Institute's critical role enabling Berkeley students to experiment, push boundaries, and challenge convention to fuel new ideas. Contributions of any size are welcome and will directly support the institute’s courses, makerspaces, and programs.

What you may not know is that YOU CAN WIN if you give!  Jacobs Institute will randomly choose one student donor to Jacobs' Big Give account to win a Jacobs Hall Maker Pass!  So plan ahead to earmark one of your Big Give pledges for Jacobs Hall and get a chance to win win WIN!

• Use this link to contribute to Jacobs starting Wednesday night at 9 pm through Thursday 9 pm.
  
  
• Click here to add a reminder+link to your calendar!

See you Thursday!!!

*Tomorrow* Mar 9: 3D Repair: Using 3D Printing to Fix Things

The Jacobs Institute facilitates a number of workshops throughout the semester, hosted by our Makerspace staff.  Learn more about what’s being offered this semester here. If you have an idea for a workshop you’d like to see, please email Adam at adam...@berkeley.edu.

Virtual workshops are open to all members of the UC Berkeley community, regardless of Maker Pass status. One upcoming virtual workshop is:

Design for Successful 3D Printing

Thursday, February 9th 11:00am - 12:00pm

In this workshop we will explore how modern fabrication technology puts the power in all our hands to fix and upgrade the items we own.

Register and access the Zoom link here.

Berkeley Engineering Design Scholar summer research program

The Berkeley Engineering Design Scholar Program is a 10-week summer undergraduate research program for UC Berkeley undergraduates. Each Design Scholar is matched with a faculty advisor based on their interests, and conducts faculty-guided research in areas such as Engineering Design, Design Methodology, Human Computer Interaction, or Data-driven Design. Benefits of the program include a $5000 stipend, exposure to academic research, a free summer Maker Pass, and more.

The Design Scholar program will be offered as an in-person, on-campus experience in summer 2023, starting June 5th and ending August 11th. A select number of Design Scholars will also be able to participate in the Maker Launchpad as part of a combined summer learning experience.

The Design Scholar program is open to all continuing Berkeley undergraduate students in the College of Engineering, although freshmen are encouraged to wait until their sophomore or junior years to apply. Continuing Berkeley students outside of the College of Engineering with a track record of experience in design will also be considered. Student veterans, persons with disabilities, women, transfer students, and students of color are especially encouraged to apply.

Learn more at designscholar.jacobhall.org. Applications for the summer 2023 cohort are due March 26th at 11:59pm.

The Maker Launchpad

Would you like to sharpen your design and prototyping skills? Continue developing an idea for a project? Prepare for the Berkeley Master of Design? Or discover an entry point into the world of engineering and design? If so, the Maker Launchpad Summer Program is for you! This six-week comprehensive prototyping program, offered by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, is the perfect way to dig deeper into design methodologies and prototyping skills. The program runs July 3–August 11, 2023.

Learn more and apply!

Jacobs Institute Hiring Summer ASEs

The Jacobs Institute is hiring Academic Student Employees (ASEs) for summer 2023.

More information about the available roles and instructions on how to apply are provided on the Jacobs website. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, beginning immediately, until positions are filled. Before applying, please 1) review information about the course, including meeting time and content, through the links provided on the website and 2) ensure you meet the eligibility requirements to be an ASE, especially if you are applying to be a first-time GSI.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, beginning immediately, with the goal of filling all summer 2023 positions by mid May.

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Amy Dinh  

pronouns: she/her/hers

Director of Academic Affairs

Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation & Berkeley Master of Design

College of Engineering | UC Berkeley  

Check out the many ways you can explore design in the Jacobs community here 

Learn about the Berkeley Master of Design here

Learn more about our efforts to increase equity & inclusion here

Contact me!

• I am available via email, scheduled appointment, or drop-in advising
• My bCal shows the days I am working from home; if the day is unmarked, it means I am working on campus in 210A Jacobs Hall.

COVID-19 updates and resources for Berkeley students can be found here

[Amy Dinh]

Hi all, 

Quick correction: the next Design Field Notes talk with Igor Galligo is next week on March 16th, not today. The information on the Design Field Notes website is correct but my email yesterday was not--apologies for the confusion!

Best,

Amy