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Hi everyone!

Looking forward to seeing your final projects on Thursday! A reminder that the final presentations will be 2:30-5 PM on Thursday at the usual link. You will have 6 minutes, max, to present. If you were not in class on Thursday (@Leslie @AJ), you’ll want to watch this video of last class to see expectations and final tips and…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

Hope you had a great weekend.

Here is a good article about the concept that immigrants should “get in line”. It is from 2017 but is mostly accurate for today as well.

And I thought I’d share this image from a Facebook post by Alex Rivera this week. What a clever design solution!

Enjoy!
Professor Gálvez

Hi everyone!

Hope you’re enjoying your Spring Break!

Here are some links Professor Silva found that will help you identify and frame problems.

• Design problem statements — what they are and how to frame them
• How to solve a design problem?
• No one said they wanted faster horses, they wanted less horseshit
• You don’t have to be an expert t…

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Thursday, our guest speaker is Marco Saavedra. He was one of the infiltrators in Alex Rivera’s film of that name, and he is co-owner with his family of La Morada restaurant in the Bronx. He just received asylum after a long wait. He has come in and out of the immigration system in so many different ways: eligible for DACA although he refused to…[Read more]

Dear students,

Happy International Women’s Day! Hope you’re honoring the women in your life!

As you prepare for your interviews, you may be interested to read this article about Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry that aired yesterday— great observations about what makes a great interview! Oprah reminded us how intervi…[Read more]

Read:

-Gálvez, “I won’t tell my story”
–Eclipse of Dreams, pick 2 of the stories to read and comment on in the discussion forum. Marco will be our 5th speaker in the guest lecture series (and was the “star” of Infiltrators).

Read:

How I stopped worrying and learned to love design thinking, by Christina Wodtke, Medium 2017

Begin to work on inte…[Read more]