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Design Field Notes, Fall 2025: Conversations About Design Practice

Hosted by UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Design Field Notes is a lecture series where we invite the public to the UC Berkeley campus for conversations with makers,

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Alumni News Student Cohort

Pushing Boundaries in Design: Recent Student Achievements and Awards

We are proud to share a series of exciting accomplishments from our students and recent graduates. Their work is being recognized globally through design awards, conference acceptances, and international showcases.

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People

Meghana Sanjay Rao

Bio

Hi! I’m Meghana Sanjay (or Megzu), a dreamer, designer, and curator from Bengaluru, India. With a background in architecture, my work explores the intersection of design, community, and social impact.

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Events MDes2025 SFDesignWeek

Evolutionary Design: A Conversation with Eugene Tssui

Join UC Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) faculty member Pierluigi Dalla Rosa and visionary architect Dr. Eugene Tssui for a conversation on how designers (and humanity at large) can chart new paths forward through evolutionary thinking.

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Student Works

How We May Make

Roshan Mohan
MDes 2024

A Vision for Producing Sustainable Hardware

Introduction

Traditionally, sustainability has been relegated to an afterthought in manufacturing. The consumer hardware industry has prioritized cost efficiency through global supply chains,

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People

Effie Jia

Effie creates objects and experiences that connect humans, machines, and the environment. She is a designer on the Adobe MINT (Machine Intelligence and New Technologies) team and was previously at Facet.ai,

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People

Pierluigi Dalla Rossa

Pierluigi is an artist, designer, leader, inventor, and educator with a passion for the medium of computation. With extensive experience in both in-house and consulting roles, he has helped to build and ship forward-looking products for companies such as Apple,

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News

From Radioactive Blueberries to Virtual Limbs: Berkeley MDes’s Award-Winning Designs

Berkeley Master of Design students have been busy! Recent graduates and current students alike have been winning design competitions with some thoughtful and evocative projects:

Gia Kirk of the MDes2024 cohort and her team took second place in the iHackHealth Appathon.

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Aer

Susanne Pierce Maddux
MDes Spring 2022

Project Aer, is an innovative material-forward design approach solving for sustainable and affordable home air filtration. Project Aer explores theinherent values, versatility and beauty of the material active charcoal by using it to replace plastic parts and as act as a filtration mechanism.

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Student Works educational environmental design sustainability

VITALIS

VITALIS is a surgical experience for plants that simulates what a renewed relationship with our natural environment might look like.
Abstract

As the consequences of the Anthropocene unfold,

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