In this 3-week “express” project inside of Creative Technology 3, we will consider the materialities, locatedness, processes, tools, politics of making, and making’s relationship to…
A design studio about work is like one about history, or science – a subject too vast and complex to present the constructive constraints we…
A college campus represents so much more than an arrangement of land and buildings. As courses continue to move online, what aspects of a student’s…
MDP Thesis student Aishwarya Janwadkar will be participating alongside Designmatters faculty director Sherry Leigh Hoffman and Environmental faculty Penny Herscovitch in the symposium “Strong Apart: Resilient & Connected Studios.” They will outline hands-on methods for…
MDP is accepting applications for FALL 2021! Priority Deadline: JANUARY 15, 2021 For the official application details go here. Contact: Graduate Admissions <gradadmissions@Artcenter.edu> for more…
Massive multiplayer online games have offered us a resemblance of public space during the pandemic. Unexpected interactions with strangers and impromptu events counter our scheduled…
MDP Alumni Parker Kuncl (2009) is the recipient of ArtCenter’s 2020 Young Innovator Award! “I’m a former Uber, PayPal, Samsung, and T-Mobile product designer that…
Learn more about Graduate Media Design Practices! These sessions will highlight student and alumni work as well as faculty research interests in design and emerging…
Lets get to work! MDP will be remote and hybrid in Fall 2020. ArtCenter has Hubs in Seoul, Shanghai, and Beijing… bringing community to our…
Making Lab Workshops in MDP promotes diverse technology literacy to artists and designers whose disciplines and backgrounds contrast. It showcases a range of approaches around…
Wobbly Realities Working Group went live with a series of features and pilot shows streamed back-to-back. The Group are creating an experimental publication, to be…
Ben Hooker took the 2-year students to tour Salton Sea near Joshua Tree as part of his studio on Emergent Conditions. L.A. is a mess…
Exhibitions, Symposia, and Events 2018/19 Poster designed by Jennifer Rider sponsored by Graduate Art and Graduate Media Design Practices (MDP) September 13, 2018, 5:30–7 pm…
Exhibitions, Symposiums, and Events 2017/18 Poster designed by Jennifer Rider sponsored by Graduate Art and Graduate Media Design Practices (MDP) ——————————– September 21, 2017, 4–6…
Thesis students were invited to exhibit THE INTERNET OF ENLIGHTENED THINGS, a collection of projects that explore the implications and opportunities of sharing our lives…
Pivot Points investigates how to design sociality for mixed reality (MR). The “pivot point” is a virtual asset scanned in from a user’s “real reality”…
Exhibitions, Symposiums, and Events 2016/17 Poster designed by Jennifer Rider sponsored by Graduate Art and Graduate Media Design Practices (MDP) ——————————– September 22, 2016, 4–6…
MDP students Lee Cody, Sche I Wang, and Xing Lu presented Trans-Actor: A UX for AI at the Microsoft Design Expo. The project began as…
When Selwa Sweiden and Jay Hong presented Radical Sensing at this year’s Microsoft Design Expo, the jury was speechless. Their audacious future proposal imagines a…
The weDub Project is a locally developed DIY audio mixer and preamplifier that fits in the palm of your hand. Created in the urban slum…
Sensor Salon is a series of explorations around wearable electronics, cultures and services that can emerge from nascent technological economies. This project proposes nail art…
MDP won the 2014 Core 77 award for our curriculum development and design. Mixing perspectives and contexts in the curriculum led the jury to proclaim:…
Whereabouts encourages new approaches to social impact design. With collaborator Betsy Kalven, I was named Winner of the 2014 Core77 Design Award for Speculative Design. The jury…
MDP students joined a field trip of experimental aircraft crash sites in the Mojave Desert, organized by Matthew Coolidge and the Center for Land Use…
