Half day workshop and presentation with the intention of engaging in a dept.-wide discussion in which a student from the Field track partners with a student from...

By designing tools that use mimicry and horizontality, designers might both level the playing field and hijack the power from top-down vertical institutions (like...

As a way of wrapping up our conference grant responsibilities, on April 5th Jacob Brancasi and I presented on the morning section of the "3 to 30: Understanding the...

One of the goal's of the program is to equip the students with the knowledge to format presentations to different audiences. March 28, 2013 the Art Center group...

How can design create a space for dialogue around the role of urban planning in displacing communities in ‘the developing context’? On March 18, 2013 we had our...

If the official world of maps has mutated into an insane apparatus of surveillance and control, why should communities use maps to make land tenure...

Tools for Stalling Eviction: Animal Barricade physical stall

A collection of highlights from my weekly field notes on The Craft Market and designing tools for stalling evictions. The selection is composed of reflections,...

On March 4, 2013 we were invited to present to a group of Directors and Innovation Leads from USAID, the World Bank, UNDP, the UN Foundation, Singularity...

On February 19th, 2013 the MDP:Field students met up with the UNICEF Kampala regional director and division directors to present a brief update of our second...

A collection of highlights from my weekly field notes around the tools for women empowerment. They range from reflections, written documentation and...

The [Anti-NGO] NGO run by Third World Post Colonial dwellers using the tools of the oppressor to monitor NGO activities as market actors....

FIELD/WORK #1 A symposium on the issues, questions and opportunities of field-based design practice. Was hold on Monday, December 10, 2012 at the Wind Tunnel...

A systematic investigation of tools for empowering under-represented communities against paternalist values of land ownership in...

"3 to 30: Understanding the Edges of Ageing" was full day engagement of workshop and knowledge sharing at the Helen Hamlyn Centre....

On Monday, November 19 after returning from the field, the Graduate Media Design Field students at Art Center gave a knowledge sharing presentation for Colloquium....

'Materializing Relationship' is an awkward prototype trying to understand an awkward relationship. We are in the privilege position of coming in and leaving...

The installation presents the content created during the three Dev Core projects as a way of understanding the final outcome of each. The intent was to reflect on...

Data is simply the collection and display of a set of variables (numbers, dates, colors, etc). Data only becomes information when the viewer is compelled to engage,...

'Who Walks Who' explores how a dogs and human negotiate so each can meet their individual needs. Negotiation is mediated through the leash, use to facilitate a more...

This project reflects on the words 'ownership' vs. 'guardianship' and how it sets up the relationship between a dog an a human....

The drama of the modern dog is that he is segregated from society—from work, children, public places—and then blamed for not knowing how to live in our world....

This last iteration explores how to set up the relationship between a dog and a human in a different way were both parties can draw pleasure. This is already...

As part of MDM Design Theory Research the class partnered during 8 weeks with the organization Jóvenes, Inc. Jovenes is based in Boyle Heights and provides housing...

Two people stand in an improbable mixture of an umbrella, tent, and desk, with only their legs showing. The two individuals are charging their phones--a common...

Research project that investigated how homelessness affect women. Also how payday loans paired with the insufficiency of welfare places individuals in a inescapable...

Under Construction

Technology for Social Impact was a class oriented around providing the students with a fundamental understanding of how information technologies influenced social...

The Transmedia course focused on the process of controlling meaning through form by a series of exercises that explored different ways to express a complex...

At the end of Development Year, the Graduate Media Design Program students at Art Center are asked to give a presentation of the projects created through the year....