design

a brightly colored rendering of a paved walkway. Many people seem to be enjoying it, including a couple with a bike. There are trees of various opacities, and one has red dots that appear to be fruit. In the background, multicolored apartments can be seen as well as a basketball court and squat community building.

Awards

UC Berkeley teams nab top prizes at national affordable housing competition

After years of campus teams coming tantalizingly close to first place, an interdisciplinary group of graduate students won the top honor for a housing development plan that balances feasibility with innovation.

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: The rise and destruction of the Jewish fashion industry

Arts & culture

Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: Learning from nature to design better robots

Berkeley Talks: Filmmaker Steve McQueen to Berkeley students: ‘Take a chance’

a photo split into two: one of a woman standing and smiling; the other of a book cover that reads

Berkeley Talks: Bess Williamson on the history of disability and design

Berkeley students use 3D modeling to protect medical workers

Design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on decolonizing design

2018 Berkeley-Rupp Prize Awarded to Deanna Van Buren

Watch: Stephanie Syjuco on art, culture and politics

Summer interns in the CITRIS Invention Lab

Young summer interns design and create in CITRIS Invention Lab

Environmental Design Archives curator Waverly Lowell to retire in June

Roadkill, part of the Hands On 11 program on Friday at the Environmental Design Library.

Hands On shot at rare artists’ books

2018 Ed Roberts Award for accessible design leader Raymond Lifchez

New course to tap UC Berkeley’s diversity and maker spirit

Post-war designs inspire student-produced chairs

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