Berkeley’s Design Fest is an open house event where UC Berkeley students will show and tell their current design projects. This open house event will showcase the diversity and magnitude of the design activity occurring in departments throughout Campus. This year Design Fest will take place over several days:
- May 1: Opening Event: IDEATE – Innovation Showcase, ASUC
- May 1-10: Classes and groups across campus will present their designs
- Download poster
- Map of locations
| Class/Project title | Professor/ Organization | Location | Date-Time |
|---|---|---|---|
 IDEATE – Innovation Showcase: Ideate is a student project showcase to celebrate the work of students across campus. This is an opportunity to get recognized and see what other fellow students are doing. There will be free catered top dog and cash prizes! |
Quinn Shen, ASUC | Dwinelle and Wheeler Plaza | Thursday, May 1, 3-6:00 pm |
 People and Environmental Design (ED1) |
W.M. Martin | Wurster 1st Floor Lobby | Thursday, May 1, 3:30-5pm |
 Engineering Design Graphics |
Sara McMains | Etcheverry Hall, 2nd floor | Thursday, May 1, 3:15-5:00 pm |
 Valuing Design: Design Innovation Seminar: Quality design is credited with providing a powerful competitive advantage to businesses and driving successful innovation. Metrics for measuring the value of design have included performance ratings (e.g., J.D. Power, Consumer Reports), financial metrics (e.g., stock performance, revenues, sales), expert evaluations (e.g., IDEA/Business Week, Consumer Electronics Society awards), creativity metrics (e.g., novelty, variety), process metrics (e.g., multidisciplinary teamwork, human-centered design), and societal impact (e.g., environmental, development in emerging regions). A survey of research in selected design metrics will be presented along with a discussion of what metrics might be used to differentiate UC Berkeley’s Design Innovation program. What skills do we hope our design graduates will have when they leave UC Berkeley? What role will our students play in creating a more meaningful and sustainable world? In this talk, design will be viewed broadly to include the design of physical products, software, services, experiences, new business models and policy. |
College of Engineering, Alice M. Agogino | B100 Blum Hall | Friday, May 2, 2:30-3:3:30 pm |
Inventors Open House – ME102: Mechatronics Design, a project course that provides students with an opportunity to integrate mechanical and electrical systems, to create “smart devices”. Over the course, students become familiar with the Arduino microcontroller, common machine elements, sensors, and actuators. |
Homayoon Kazerooni | 2nd floor Etcheverry Hall | Friday, May 2, 2-5:00 pm |
| Architectural Design Studio (Arch200B) |
Danelle Guthrie, Rudabeh Pakravan, Andrew Atwood | Wurster Gallery | Monday May 5, 9am-6pmTuesday May 6, 9am-6pm> |
 Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day: Providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of students who have ‘Big Ideas.’ |
Big Ideas | Blum Hall | Monday May 5, 2-5:00 pm |
 Fundamentals of Architectural Design (Arch100B) |
Kristen Smith, JP Bourdier, Ling Fan, Roddy Creedon, William DiNapoli, Legg Yeung, Dominique Price, Jay Atherton, Ajay Manthripragada, Michelle Chang |
Wurster:1st Floor Lobby, Room 104, Room 108, Room 172 | Monday, May 5, 1-7pmTuesday May 6, 1-7pm |
 Introduction to New Product Development: Upper division students form multidisciplinary teams for hands-on and real world experience in the development of innovative and realistic customer-driven engineered products. |
Alice M. Agogino | Innovation Lab, Memorial Stadium, map | Tuesday, May 6. 11:30-2:00 pm |
 Innovation Feast: Eat. Think. Design. Project Showcase. RSVP at http://innovationfeast.eventbrite.com |
Jaspal Sandhu, Nap Hosang, Kris Madsen | 105 North Gate Hall | Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 4:-7:00 pm |
 Design Showcase: Students from design clubs from around campus are coming together to present their projects that they have been working on this semester. This is a great way to meet with future designers, discuss exciting ideas, and get inspired! |
Berkeley Innovation, Design for America and more! | Hearst Mining | Wednesday, May 7, 5:00-7:00 pm |
User Interface Design (CS160): Students learn to prototype, evaluate, and design a user interface. More detail at: hci.berkeley.edu/cs160 |
Bjoern Hartmann | Banatao Auditorium and Kvamme Atrium, 3rd floor, Sutardja Dai Hall | Wednesday, May 7, 2-3:30pm – Presentations in the CITRIS auditorium; 3:30-5pm – Posters and demos in the CITRIS atrium |
 Critical Making (NWMEDIA 290 / COMPSCI 294-85: Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture. As hybrid practitioners, students will develop fluency in readily collaging and incorporating a variety of physical materials and protocols into their practice. With design research as a lens, students will envision and create future computational experiences that critically explore social and culturally relevant technological themes such as community, privacy, environment, education, economics, energy, food, biology, democracy, activism, healthcare, social justice, etc. More at: make.berkeley.edu |
Eric Paulos | Kvamme Atrium, 3rd floor, Sutardja Dai Hall | Wednesday, May 7, 2:00-3:30 pm |
| Architectural Design IV (Arch100D) |
Darell Fields, Lisa Iwamoto, Alan Tse, Rene Davids | Wurster Gallery | Wednesday, May 7, 1pm-9pm Thursday May 8, 1pm-9pm |
| Architectural Design Studio (Arch202) | Ron Rael, Elena Manferdini, Susan Ubbleohde, Kyle Steinfeld | Wurster 1st Floor Lobby | Wednesday, May 7, 1pm-7pm Thursday May 8, 1pm-7pm |
 Fung Institute Capstone Poster Session |
Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership | Hearst Mining | Thursday, May 8, 4-6:00 pm |
| Studio I |
M. Paz Gutierrez | Wurster | Friday, May 9, 9am-9pmSaturday May 10, 9am-9pm |
| M.Arch Thesis | Renee Chow, Revee Choksombatchai, Mark Anderson |
Wurster | Friday, May 9, 9am-9pmSaturday May 10, 9am-9pm |
| Architecture Capstone Project: “Architecture in Reverse” | Jill Stoner | Wurster | Friday, May 9, 9am-9pmSaturday May 10, 9am-9pm |
 More Next week: MBA247 Designing Web/Mobile Products. Check out the prototype products and services developed by the class. While any active feedback is greatly appreciated, simply visiting individual sites provides valuable statistical information. Please note: AdBlock Plus and other ad or pop-up blockers may block the splash page ads for our different products and services. If you have trouble viewing this site, please turn off AdBlock Plus and other pop-up blockers for the site: calnpd.com. |
Thomas Lee | Innovation Lab, Haas School of Business/ | Tue., May 13, 12-2:30 pm |
More Next week: Design for Sustainable Communities CE209: Spring Design Reception and Open House. This course provides conceptual and hands-on experience developing sustainable and scalable solutions to alleviate poverty and address basic human needs. Students form interdisciplinary teams and partner with real world clients working to achieve positive impact in a resource constrained community. Teams and clients collectively define a design challenge to meet within the scope of the semester. Hands-on work is complemented by mini-lectures, short workshops, and case studies. Students come from a variety of backgrounds, including engineering, business, public policy, ERG, and chemistry, among others. More information about the class and projects can be found at http://sustainablecommunities.weebly.com |
Susan Amrose | Blum Hall Plaza, interactive map http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/ | Friday, May 16, 6-9pm |
For more info contact: Alice M. Agogino (Mechanical Engineering) or Yael Perez (Cal Design Lab, College of Environmental Design)
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