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Tessa Maffucci
School of Design, Fashion Design

Creative Fabric: Mapping Community Connection in NYC’s Garment District is a digital humanities project that employs both geographic and network mapping to illustrate the relationships within New York City’s Garment District necessary to sustain this creative ecosystem.

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Varnika Kundu, MID ’22 and Jay Jeon, MFA Digital Arts ’23
School of Design
School of Art

Curative is a mixed reality experience exploring computational creativity, authorship, and encoded accountability.

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colorful image of digitally rendered art by artificial intelligence

Dhruv Mishra, MID ’22
School of Design, Industrial Design

Graphia is a graphic, tablet-based tool that helps children write essays in a creative and visual way, while simultaneously capable of diagnosing learning disabilities behind the scenes with an AI model.

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Image of hand writing on the left side of the screen, with circle and analysis of pencil pressure and angle on the right.

Hannah Berkin-Harper
School of Design, Industrial Design

Events that require street closures have unique needs like rapid set up and take down, use of durable materials, and accessibility for community members. Creating beautiful and inviting spaces encourages participation, but often street events are furnished with some folding chairs and pop-up tents at best. Multigenerational Active Streets’ goal is to create objects that form spaces with opportunities for new active programming for people of all ages.

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Irina Schneid
School of Design, Interior Design

Participatory Education: Supporting Community Engagement Within and Beyond the Classroom sought to document the current state of civic engagement across the institute.

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diagram partnerships overlaid on a map of New York City

Jon Otis and Kaelee Helms, MFA Interior Design ’22
School of Design, Interior Design

Sound of Space | Space of Sound endeavors to inform and enlighten about the integration of sound within interior space.

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Jean Brennan and Maria Gracia Echeverria
School of Design, Graduate Communications Design

We seek to move beyond the subject of ‘sustainability’ as a purely material discussion and invite students to build empathy and interconnectedness with the living and breathing world.

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Selin Miskavi, BID ’22
School of Design, Industrial Design

Tackl Board is a cutting board with attachments for kitchen use and considers cooks with less mobility or strength in one hand.

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A light pink cutting board with two attachments: one in green, one in orange.

Amanda Huynh and Dr. Daniel Leithinger (CU Boulder)
School of Design, Industrial Design

How do we design socio-technical support systems so that networks of children can engage together in collaborative, social, and embodied design?

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An elephant sketch made of a thin string of neon green play-doh is on top of a grid mat with pieces of neon green play-doh off to the side.