This fall, we welcomed a diverse group of speakers to Jacobs Hall for the Jacobs Design Conversations and Design Field Notes speaker series. With speakers ranging from artists to product managers, these talks’ topics covered a broad swath of the design field. Across these wide-ranging discussions, here are some common Read more…
This fall, we welcomed a diverse group of speakers to Jacobs Hall for the Jacobs Design Conversations and Design Field Notes speaker series. With speakers ranging from artists to product managers, these talks’ topics covered a broad swath of the design field. Across these wide-ranging discussions, here are some common Read more…
The University of California, Berkeley has announced promising early results from a $2.2 million grant provided by the State of California. The grant has helped UC Berkeley, already a global hub for innovation, to expand its entrepreneurship activities with new facilities, courses and programs. “The funding adds fuel to the already Read more…
This fall, passersby on the top floor of Jacobs Hall might have seen an unusual sight: a large net dropped down from the ceiling, with a mini-drone buzzing around inside it. This would be a class session of Introduction to Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (ME 136), a new course Read more…
This fall, passersby on the top floor of Jacobs Hall might have seen an unusual sight: a large net dropped down from the ceiling, with a mini-drone buzzing around inside it. This would be a class session of Introduction to Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (ME 136), a new course Read more…
Purin Phanichphant is an artist and designer whose work spans broad areas: he has served as a product and interaction designer with clients from Levi’s to Genentech at design firm IDEO, led design efforts at speech AI startup Gridspace, and developed an inventive art practice that focuses on “creating things Read more…
“From the beginning, we’ve had the intention to create a culture through our staff.” — Joey Gottbrath, technical labs lead, Jacobs Institute Jacobs Hall is an active site of hands-on making for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty. As the institute has grown in the two years since its opening, its team Read more…
On May 3 and 4, students from 17 courses held in Jacobs Hall — along with clubs and student-taught DeCals that use the building’s resources—presented projects at the 2017 Jacobs Spring Design Showcase. The showcase capped a semester of design innovation that saw students develop sustainable products, prototype innovations in space research, Read more…
“I think something that’s really important to us is our story.” — Ruth McGee, R I S ☰ Project Manager Every two years, collegiate teams from across the nation gather to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon. Launched in 2002, the competition challenges teams to design, build, and operate Read more…
This fall brought an exciting mix of speakers to Jacobs Hall, through our Jacobs Design Conversations series and a new pop-up series of informal talks, Design Field Notes. Over the course of the semester, we heard from wide-ranging voices on design projects, practices, and possibilities. Here are three themes we Read more…