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Life at MDP

Tomorrow #thesis students have their first review

Tomorrow #thesis students have their first review of the year! For this review, Thesis students are asked to AMASS the significant moments, issues, references that are advancing their design projects. The SecondLife exhibition and Review will challenge them to articulate the questions driving/emerging from their design and technology work so far. #ohmdp 🤩

@shinyniuniu’s last day taking over our Instagra

@shinyniuniu’s last day taking over our Instagram! This is a MMORPG game intervention and streaming event, a prototype for the #concept studio “Digital As Place.” Description: Are you real? I hope you are not weirded by my intervention, dear stranger, as I simultaneously feel more real yet unreal being this character, so immersed and quick to react to this world yet so failed to stop and think about the reality the juxtaposition of conversation with my friend in real- world and conversation with you interesting but unclear…… Are you real?

Takeover day 2 by @shinyniuniu! Today’s image is

Takeover day 2 by @shinyniuniu! Today’s image is of a prototype for grad-lab’s re-imagining the city project with #benhooker. Description: we all be in places on flying drones a city is just one place on one internet that hosts our digital foot- prints landing on the new nature one standard of one place we have been citizens and we all be flying #ohmdp

This week, #concept student @shinyniuniu will be t

This week, #concept student @shinyniuniu will be taking over our Instagram! For each of her posts, we’ll share a poem that describes the photo #ohmdp Description: Currently in Taiwan living the California time, having coffee at weird times, but feeling revived—taped and used the 10yr coffee machine it is still working. 🤩

As part of the #concept studio “Digital as Place

As part of the #concept studio “Digital as Place,” students designed interventions in multiplayer gaming spaces. @kateladenheim created sited interventions in response to Human Fall Flat's treatment of default bodies (named Bob) as infinitely disposable. Bobs labor in a variety of low-poly dreamscapes, only to be rewarded by falling into more labor-filled worlds. Interventions included on this post: a new employee video for Bobs first entering the dreamlands and Bob's Bill of Rights.

Designers from @artcenteredu of Design’s Graduat

Designers from @artcenteredu of Design’s Graduate Media Design Practices program reunite for an informal tertulia to discuss their exhibited projects at Abierto, the evolution of their practices, and designing futures in a present in crisis at 12PM PST. The event will be live-streamed here: https://www.facebook.com/AbiertoDeDiseno Exhibitors: @shibbycedeno, @andoncemore, @jess.terday, @tokiomix, @nidhi.singh.rathore, @nantreee, @ldubalicious, @jason.shun.wong & Nicci Yin. #ohmdp

As part of @caltechedu & @nasajpl, students can pa

As part of @caltechedu & @nasajpl, students can participate in a program called “Data to Discovery” (@datavisprogram) started in 2012. @mediadesignpractices #thesis students @mw_bernard & @rrose.water participated this past summer. This particular data viz was born out of the question “how can the CliMA team visualize time-variant 3D and diagnostic variables from large eddy simulation data in order to understand and improve how their system models turbulent structures, including updrafts and entrainment zones?”

This week we’re starting to share #wip thesis qu

This week we’re starting to share #wip thesis questions as our students work towards their first review in week 7. For @aishwaryajanwadkar’s thesis, she intends to investigate how we can challenge our monolithic understanding of sickness and care in order to redirect and expand our notion of care to consider each other’s cultural, psychosocial, and financial needs.

An Ode to Walls! @mediadesignpractices has gotten

An Ode to Walls! @mediadesignpractices has gotten creative with different virtual platforms to pin things up and make connections, but there’s nothing like the giant walls in our studio! #ohmdp