Winter 2021 MDes Showcase Recap

INAUGURAL MDES SHOWCASE

On Friday, December 10th, 2021, the first and second cohorts of MDes students enjoyed a full-day at Jacobs Hall as part of the inaugural MDes Showcase. During the event, students showed their projects to external critics, faculty, the general UC Berkeley community, family, and friends. All core MDes classes from the Fall 2021 semester exhibited work: Debates in Design, Technology Design Foundations, Design Frameworks, and Designing Emerging Technologies I. It was so rewarding to see the amazing results of a hard-working semester!

Debates in Design

• Biased Data Visualization (Dongho Koo, Emily Joens, Peipei Lin, Sora Kang, Tania O’Neill, Yiying Wu )
• AP Imagination (Chialing Chen, Georgios Grigoriadis, Hannah Bartolomea, Jan-Simon Veicht, Jiaxuan Ren, Sara Friend, Zhipeng Pan)
• The Future of the Sky (Akash Mahajan, Bennett Ngan, Jacob Kritzinger, Kaila Negron, Mercedes Saldana, Ramyani Roy, Susanne Maddux)
• The Digital Front Door (Abhi Ghavalkar, Amanda Yang, Celia Diaz, Daisy Chen, Lula Duloup, Taylor Speed, Yu Cheng, Zhiyue Wang)
• AI at the Clinician Waiting Room (Can Ge, Elijah Lee, Felicia Renelus, Kailin Li, Ming Gong, Thomas Chen)
• Veiled Observers: Exploring Surveillance between Machine, Human, and Environments (Billy Kwok, David Zhou, Effie Jia, Jessica Kim, Maya Chen, Roland Saekow, Salih Berk Dincer, Titus Ebbecke)
• Wandering in Dust: Examining Futures in the Aridlands (Benal Johnson, Debbie Yuen, Jennifer Wong, Shuyang Yu, Xiobai Ji, Yuting Wang, Zoe Ingram)
• Designing a Sandbox for Designers (Adam Huth, Carolyn Nguyen, Denise Heredia, Eleanor Mayes, Franklyn Bucknor, Jaesuk Huh, Yilin Niu)

Technology Design Foundations

• EIDOS (Akash Mahajan, Debbie Yuen, Eleanor Mayes, Lula Duloup, Roland Saekow)
• Snackchat (Amanda Yang, Billy Kwok, Yilin Niu, Zhipeng Pan)
• Breathe Easy (Can Ge, Carolyn Nguyen, Jessica Kim, Zoe Ingram)
• Kube (Daisy Chen, Jacob Kritzinger, Kaila Negron, Salih Berk Dincer, Tania O’Neill)
• Terrascape (Maya Chen, Chialing Chen, Ramyani Roy, Thomas Chen, Bennett Ngan)
• Cultivate (Benal Johnson, Hannah Bartolomea, Emily Joens, Celia Diaz, Jennifer Wong)
• ICareU (Jaesuk Huh, Sara Friend, Sora Kang, Taylor Speed, Yuting Wang)
• Reflection Pool (Denise Heredia, Dongho Koo, Felicia Renelus, Ming Gong)

Design Frameworks

• University (Yiying Wu, Peipei Lin)
• MeshPass (Jan Veicht)
• Fungi on Foot (Adam Huth)
• Ares Source (Georgios Grigoriadis)
• Modspace (David Zhou, Eli Lee)
• Flora Umbilica (Abhi Ghavalkar)
• DMXR Test (Mercedes Saldana, Ted Huang, Shuyang Yu)
• LSDesign (Franklyn Bucknor)
• Offset (Susanne Pierce Maddux)

Designing Emerging Technologies I

• Soma (Luna Wang, Susanne Pierce Maddux, Yu Cheng, Georgios Grigoriadis)
• Vitals (Adam Huth, Abhi Ghavalkar, Penny Lin, Yiying Wu)
• Dat’amour (Ted Huang, Jiaxuan Ren, Shuyang Yu, Kailin Li)
• Somnus (Effie Jia, Titus Ebbecke, Xiaobai Ji, Xinyi Zhu)
• Off-Line (David Zhou, Elijah Lee, Franklyn Bucknor, Jan Veicht, Mercedes Saldana)

Invited Guest Critics

• Basak Altan
• Yoon Bahk
• Pierluigi Dalla Rosa
• Andreea Danielescu
• Brian Hinch
• Mike Kuniavsky
• Michael Naimark
• Eric Rodenbeck
• Kristian Simsarian
• Chioma Ume
• Floor van de Velde
• Kuan-Ju Wu

Make sure to check out our student work page to learn more about MDes projects.