Strategy and User Experience
May 13, 2013
Friend of the program, Sara Ortloff Khoury, just published an article on the strategy of user experience. She should know as she has shepherded user experience at walmart.com for more than 6 years.
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2013 Venture Night a success
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Mosey described in the NY Times
Bikes + Design @ CCA
Prometheus Writes: 53 Hours to Go
Hunter Lovins Lecture at CCA
John Seely Brown's Lecture at CCA
AIGA (Re)design Awards
Studio G: Design Summer Camp for girls
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2013 Venture Night a success
May 11, 2013
This evening was the 2013 Venture Night and 17 teams gave 90 second elevator pitches (twice) to 500 people that introduced the projects they'v been building for the past semester. All did a fine job and we're proud to see the 4th graduating class finish the program. You can read summaries of the projects and link to their extensive websites from our DMBA Venture website.
The Story Jar student project app launches
May 11, 2013
The Story Jar is a student project for gifting stories in a collaborative story ecosystem. The four students who created it, Jo Tsai, Alex Pratt, Rahim Bhimani, and Ryan Blad, presented it at the 2013 Venture Night tonight as part of their graduating project. Their app launched three days ago on the Apple App Store. Download the free app and try recording and sharing an important story in a friend or loved-one's life (you don't have to wait for a special occasion). Follow them on Twitter and tell your friends.
Mosey described in the NY Times
May 9, 2013
Two days ago, DMBA grad startup, Mosey, was written-up in the NY Times. The article describes "Five Travel Problems and the Sites That Try to Solve Them," mentioning Mosey's itinerary recommendation engine in the second description. Mosey is a library of custom curated experiences that fit perfectly on your mobile device. You can find new adventures and create your own.
Check-out Mosey for yourself.
Bikes + Design @ CCA
April 30, 2013
CCA has a deep bike culture (partly because we're in the Bay Area and partly because our SF campus lies in a public transit dessert). As a result, bike design features prominently in many of CCA's programs and projects, not to mention the faculty and student-led start-up, Sparse.
To bring together all of the various bike initiatives at CCA, including several lectures, workshops, and events this summer, we've launched a new site: Bike+Design
Prometheus Writes: 53 Hours to Go
April 10, 2013
With only 53 hours left in his Prometheus Writes Kickstarter project, DMBA graduate Jason Hui has beat his fundraising goal by almost ten times!
Hunter Lovins Lecture at CCA
April 6, 2013
Hunter Lovins was invited by the DMBA program at CCA to speak as part of our Graduate Lecture Series on 11 Jan 2011. Her lecture is on iTunesU at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/graduate-studies-video/id424334341#
Stuart Candy: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/graduate-studies-video/id424334341#
John Seely Brown's Lecture at CCA
April 6, 2013
John Seely Brown was invited by the DMBA program at CCA to speak as part of our Graduate Lecture Series on 23 Feb 2011. His lecture is on iTunesU at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/graduate-studies-video/id424334341#
AIGA (Re)design Awards
March 27, 2013
(Re)think sustainability and design 2013
www.aigaredesignawards.com
The AIGA (Re)design Awards competition recognizes design that challenges us to (re)think the world and our choices. It is based on our fundamental belief that through better design we can build a better a planet.
This unique design competition honors sustainable design solutions and the designers, educators and students throughout the world that use their creative influence to create a positive impact on our environment and society.
Through masterful storytelling, compelling visuals, and beautiful design, we have the power to shape the future and ignite change.
Competition opens on April 15
Early (discounted) submissions due on May 1
Last submissions due June 14
Studio G: Design Summer Camp for girls
March 25, 2013
Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H, just launched a summer camp for girls--this summer at REALM, an awesome design-focused charter school:
We are so excited to announce the launch of Studio G, our new design/build summer camp for girls ages 9-12! Registration is now open for two sessions in July in Berkeley, California.
More about Studio G:
WHO: Girls ages 9 to 12 years, maximum enrollment 20 girls per session (5:1 camper:counselor ratio)
WHERE: REALM Charter High School, 2020 Bonar Street, Berkeley, CA
WHEN: Two week-long sessions: July 8-12 (Wood), July 15-19 (Metal). Camp hours are 9am - 4pm.
WHAT: Studio G is a one-of-a-kind design and building summer camp for girls ages 9-12 that sparks creativity and curiosity through hands-on building, problem-solving, and meaningful making. Girls will cut plywood with a jigsaw, fuse metal with a welder, and create projects of personal and social relevance. Studio G's instructors are female architects, designers, creative educators, and graduates of our Studio H high school design/build program.
Integrating science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) skills, Studio G projects build confidence, grit, and the belief that everything is possible in life and in the world. Studio G camp "graduates" will be equipped to communicate audacious ideas through their creative voice, transform their communities through active building, and go forth confidently into higher education and careers in any field.
As an organization, we apply creativity and hands-on building to engage K-12 students in socially relevant, project-based education. Studio G is a complement and sister program to our in-school Studio H program at REALM Charter School, in which high school students design and build full-scale public architecture projects for community benefit.
Download more information (2013 Camp Guide - .pdf)
We are looking forward to strategically expanding our organization's programming to a new group of youth. We have already been working with middle school students this year and see huge potential for design and building to excite in them a sense of possibility and academic confidence. In particular, our middle school girls are wide-eyed and confident when given creative building tasks, and they carry this confidence into the rest of their school days and home life. Please help us to spread the word about Studio G. We hope to see you this summer!
Emily Pilloton, Founder and Executive Director
Prometheus Writes
March 19, 2013
Another of our DMBA alums has started a new Kickstarter project, this time to create high-quality executive pens, machined out of aluminum and titanium: Prometheus Writes DMBA grad Jason Hui writes: "I'm also a huge pen fanatic. I have bought nearly every pen I've seen in search of the ultimate writing experience. When I discovered the Montblanc Starwalker (with Fineliner cartridge) I lost interest in searching for the ultimate pen...because I thought I'd found it." Even though he's already 4 times over his goal, please support him on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darksucks/prometheus-writes-a-premium-3-piece-executive-pen
DMBA Alums Rethink the Medical Resident Experience
February 24, 2013
Pioneering cohort alums, Vinitha Watson and Nicole Chen, have completed the first phase of a project Vinitha started as a tribute to Vinitha's good friend, Dr. Priya Palagummi Makadia dying in her final months of medical residency at johns Hopkins. Vinitha knew that residents, all over the USA, experience grueling circumstances and her friend's death highlighted even more problems than most would assume. Aside from long hours, little sleep, and high stress, medical residents also feel unable to ask for help or, ironically, to receive medical care for fear that the'll appear weak to the peers.
To honor her friend, Vinitha enlisted he fellow alum and they built a program to use the very skills thy honed in the DMBA program to work with Johns Hopkins and rethink the experience new doctors have during their residencies. Next phases include designing new experiences, services, and policies, and then testing them at Johns Hopkins before scaling them to other residency programs.
CCA Student's Team Wins 1st Place in AECOM Competition
January 18, 2013
CCA Student Adam Broidy and team spent the Summer in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya with a team of students researching the needs of residents in one of the biggest slums in the world. Their proposal, Unslumming Kibera, won AECOM's fourth annual Urban SOS competition.
AECOM announced today that "Unslumming Kibera" has won the company's fourth annual Urban SOS competition. The AECOM program fosters cross-disciplinary thinking in urban problem-solving and design education while helping to make a real difference for a community in need.
Winning team members Adam Broidy (California College of the Arts), Jack Campbell Clause (Leeds Metropolitan University), Jamilla Harper (University of Nairobi) and April Schneider (University of Illinois Chicago) received a US$5,000 cash prize. An in-kind donation of cash and AECOM technical assistance totaling US$25,000 will go to helping realize their project.
David Kelley on Design Thinking (60 Minutes)
January 6, 2013
Tonight, on 60 Minutes, IDEO co-founder David Kelley talked about design thinking and his work at IDEO. He has been a tireless proponent of design and design thinking and an innovator his entire life.
So much for a more sustainable Walmart
December 17, 2012
Walmart's illegal dealings in Mexico undo all of the gains they've made in trying to be a more sustainable company. Evidently, cultural sustainability and legality still aren't part of Walmart's operating values.
Studio H on Kickstarter
December 14, 2012
Emily Pilloton's Studio H has moved to a Berkeley charter school, REALM, and they are building their own classroom (since there is no other room for them to teach in). Please support them on Kickstarter
"We believe in our school. We need classroom space. So we're designing and building it ourselves.
"We recently moved our Studio H program to REALM Charter School in Berkeley (as you might already know), and now have 75 students who are awesome and so excited to build things for their community. Our first project is the design and construction of a classroom space, from shipping containers, steel, and lumber, for the school community - the school is short one classroom and has been teaching out of the gym. Our students wanted to be the class to actually build a real solution. We're in the midst of a fundraiser to pay for the materials, and have about $8000 of our $15000 goal. Since we're fundraising via Kickstarter, it will only be funded if we can reach the $15000 mark. I was wondering if you might be able or willing to contribute to the cause, either yourself or as a holiday donation in someone's name. Every little bit helps and we would be so grateful."
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1903209704/building-our-own-classroom-studio-h-at-realm-chart/
DMBA student contributes to winning project
December 4, 2012
Adam Broidy, a second-year DMBA student, and his team, are global finalists in the AECOM Urban SOS: Frontiers competition. His project, Unslumming Kibera, looks at making safe, effective, permanent, and beautiful infrastructure a reality in this urban settlement on the socioeconomic fringe of Nairobi, Kenya. You can read about the project here.
Nathan Shedroff to co-MC CompostModern 2013
November 25, 2012
The SF chapter of the AIGA is known for (among other things) this fantastic, thoughtful, and inspiring conference on sustainability, systems thinking, and resilience within the design community. Next year, CompostModern 2013 will be co-MCed by DMBA chair Nathan Shedroff and Eve Blossom.
The conference will take place on March 22nd and 23rd at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and the speaker line-up is amazing: Ezio Manzini, John Thackera, Terry Irwin, John Bielenberg, Tiffany Shlain, and many more.
DMBA Student Presents at Design Indaba
November 21, 2012
One of our students soon to graduate, Rahim Bhimani, presented at the Design Indaba conference this past March but his presentation has only been posted in the last week.
Here, Rahim talks about a project that severs the link between sport and smell in the form of the Ultraviolet Sports Pack that uses ultraviolet light to kill odor in shoes. Bhimani also addresses sanitation issues in disaster-stricken areas with his flat-pack toilet that comes with a biodegradable bag for waste.
The Folding Kayak
November 17, 2012
One of our DMBA alums has joined with the creator of the amazing folding kayak and they just launched their project on Kickstarter: Oru Kayak This kayak folds together with an easy-to-carry shoulder strap. Please support them on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1975288517/oru-kayak-the-origami-folding-boat