Congratulations to MDes students Daisy Chen and Jiaxuan Ren for getting their projects featured in MIT Reality Hack 2022! 

Daisy’s team project “Inclusive VR User Testing Tool” is selected as the grand finalist out of 60 teams and won the “XR for inclusion” prize sponsored by Snap AR.

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Two MDes students’ papers, done in collaboration with EECS students, “WebTransceiVR – Asymmetric VR Collaboration At Scale “and “Generative VR: Spatial Interactions in Virtual Reality to Guide Generative Design “ have been accepted by the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction HCI.

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Each semester, MDes students get the opportunity to learn from and interact with various invited guest speakers and mentors. This spring, Design Frameworks and Capstone Studio have a great line-up of guests with backgrounds ranging from critical theory to robotic fabrication to XR technologies to strategic foresight….

Eleanor Mayes (MDes FA22) has just been awarded an Arcus Social Justice Corp (ASJC) Fellowship!

The ASJC is a new fellowship program in the College of Environmental Design that offers significant debt-relief to select graduate students who intend to do social justice work after graduation.  

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