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Shameemah Fuseini-Codjoe

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Hi, I’m Shameemah (she/her). I grew up in Ghana, and moved to the USA in 2014 for college. I graduated from Illinois Tech in 2018 with a bachelor’s and master’s in Information Technology and Management,

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Helena Kent

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My aim is to contribute to the regenerative advancement of our world and worlds beyond our own. My recent projects have focused on design practiceing, developing, and researching technology for planetary exploration through the lens of design practice Engineering.

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Simian He (Lenox)

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Hi, I’m Lenox! The five years of study in Architecture made me form a design practice philosophy that a great design practice work is a balanced integration of artistic sensibility and scientific method.

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Spring Mentors

Each semester, MDes students get the opportunity to learn from and interact with various invited guest speakers and mentors. This spring, design practice 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….

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Kyle Steinfeld, MDes Associate Director, featured @ Venice Biennale 2021

Kyle Steinfeld, Associate Professor of Architecture and MDes Associate Director, is featured in CityX Venice, Italian Virtual Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021 with his project, ARTIFICIALIS RELIEVO.

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Georgios Grigoriadis (George)

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Georgios Grigoriadis is an Architect (of things).

His work seeks to engage with the notions of curiosity and impact. Curiosity as the constant movement upon media, scale and disciplines.

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Career News

Welcoming Josh Silverman, and Thanking Stephanie Bianco

design practice.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Silverman_Square_sm-300x300.jpg" alt="Josh Silverman" width="283" height="283" srcset="https://design practice.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Silverman_Square_sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https://design practice.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Silverman_Square_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https://design practice.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Silverman_Square_sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https://design practice.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Silverman_Square_sm.jpg 900w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px" />For MDes students, the path from studio to career is one of the most important parts of the experience. That’s why we’re so excited to welcome Josh Silverman as our new Director of Career Development.

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Josh Silverman

Josh Silverman helps people discover their purpose, and connects them with opportunities.

As Director of Career Development, he supports students and alumni on their career journeys, and builds bridges between learning,

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Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw is a design practiceer and researcher whose career spans product engineering, social science, organization studies, and artificial intelligence. He recently retired after 15 years at IBM Research, with prior employment at HP,

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Joris Komen

Joris’ research focuses on human-wildlife interactions in the architectural space, adaptive behavioral wildlife biology, ecological literacy and the critical role wildlife will play in defining the future city. His work explores how computational design practice and human settlement design practices intersect with wildlife habitat adaptation.

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