Museums are struggling to achieve their goal of servicing society and its development. In order to survive, museums must find ways to expand their community segments — embracing those that do not already go to the museum and reinvent themselves to be relevant across social, cultural, economic, and technological changes…

Team Members: Alexander Polzin, Amanda Sanchez, Jenny Xin, Mihika Bansal, Xiaoran Zhang Previously in our last assignment, we created a vision of a future in which deforestation as a wicked problem no longer exists. By the year 2100, we envision a world that is centered around three principles: self-sufficiency, economics…

Team Members: Alexander Polzin, Amanda Sanchez, Jenny Xin, Mihika Bansal, Xiaoran Zhang Introduction After analyzing the history of deforestation in assignment #3, our team set out to create a vision of a future in which deforestation has been resolved. Despite tree canopy loss and decline in forest health in the bioregion…

Colonialism, Media, and Beauty Standards for the Modern Indian Woman — Introduction Humanity’s desire for beauty and preference of beautiful objects is universal. However, this begs the question of what exactly is beauty, and who determines what is “beautiful.” While at one point, the definition of “beautiful” varied by culture and society, the standards of beauty have become incredibly homogenized, specifically defined…

Your client, Yelp, has decided to pursue the pop-up shop model that will be located in urban centers for short periods of time (3–4 weeks) and then moved to other cities around the country. How can you design this environment to translate Yelp’s brand into a physical space? Key Insights About Yelp Yelp uniquely…

Develop multi-sensory experiences inspired by a story recorded by StoryCorps. The goal is to evoke emotions and personal memories in the viewer that mirror or complement your assigned story by stimulating multiple senses. My Story The story that I was assigned for this project is about Fatuma Abdullahi, Annie Johnson, and Maryan…

Experiment with ways that we can change a person’s relationship to their (natural) physical environment. Design wearable, physical artifacts to impact our senses through amplification, dampening, distortion, isolation, etc. to have an impact on the wearer’s perception. Brainstorming The Senses With this project, we have been tasked to think about the way humans…

Mapping out what the goal of a service design project works to keep the project on task — working in a manner that is actually affective in accomplishing its goal. …

In today’s society it seems as though the number of items that any one person can own is endless. Companies are endlessly producing items to maximize their own profit, encouraging people keep buying, not encouraging consumers to keep and care for their items. …