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Really cool urban hacking in SF!

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DP2 | Exploratorium Bay Observatory | Laura, Melissa, Jessica, Denis

"Our goal is to redesign place-based learning through data visualization. More specifically, we are designing a new data layer for the Visualizing the Bay Area platform exhibit in San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum."

View details of the project here.

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DP2 | RSVP Market Street | Glory, Isis, Nancy, Shuo

"The challenge that the SF Mayor's Office of Innovation, the Exploratorium, and Gehl Architects presented to our team was this: take this 60' x 20' space on Market Street, and do something with it.  Make it greener. Make it more exciting.  Make people want to linger.  In short, make it better."

View details of the project here.

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DP2 | Heartbeat-Box | Chinmay, Spencer, Brian

"This is the Museum 3.0 project, where the visitor is allowed to create hypotheses, “hack” the museum environment, and collect data on themselves and other visitors to support their hypotheses."

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DP2 | Sensors + non-Newtonian Fluid | Anisah, Keith, Kevin

"We came up with a prototype of an experiment/exhibit that allows our user to recall the fun experimentations of her childhood yet allows her to learn and experiment with a new technology that will likely be widespread in the future."

View details of the project here.

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DP2 | CITY WINDOW | Steph, Fernando, Eric

"Our CityWindow mirror installation interrupts the routine of pedestrians along Market Street, surprising commuters with a new view of both the city, and themselves."

View details of the project here.

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Design thinking shares more similarities than differences with the scientific work. Both aim at producing new insights and answers to questions that can improve the quality of life of people. Both use clear and defined frameworks to guide processes toward the desired goals. Both share inspiration from people and nature, fundamentals of any creative process. The interaction of design and science is realized by any effort that uses a creative process to reveal new information or understanding. In the end, it’s all about new knowledge and better understanding of our lives and our environment.

--d.science students

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Art and science are all about finding about who we are and how we interact with the rest of the world.

-- d.science students

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At the intersection of design thinking and scientific research, we can find new ways to communicate scientific information in more engaging, effective, and accessible ways. This then builds human capital, and empowers us to create products and generate solutions for the common good.

- d.science students

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/arts/design/a-prescription-for-plazas-and-public-spaces.html?hp&_r=0

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Wind Map | Chinmay

beautiful wind visualization

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Science is a daunting subject and design can give science the context it needs to be understood by all citizens of the world. Design puts abstract scientific ideas into concrete experiences for people to consume. Design can also enable people to contribute to scientific knowledge without formal training. 

#designandscience #spencer #eric #isis

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Design is a different way of doing things.  It challenges the status quo. Incorporating design thinking into science can change the way people do, learn, and understand science.  Design moves science from the textbook to real life.  It takes what is typically an isolated experience and becomes a social collaboration that involves others.  Everyone interacts with science in their daily lives whether they like it or not.  Design can make the science relevant, meaningful, and above all creative.  Design for science puts the creativity back in science in an explicit way.    

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The “mad” scientist:

Art and science is all about finding about who we are and how we interact with the rest of the world, inspiring our choice of the body to represent our visualization. The hands collect data and experiment; the brain is related with education and awareness; eyes visualize; the heart embodies artistic expression; the feet represent an active call to action. 

- Keith, Steph, Jessica

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At the intersection of design-thinking and scientific research, we can find new ways to communicate scientific information in more engaging, effective, and accessible ways. This then builds human capital, and empowers us to create products and and generate solutions for the common good. 

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­­Design+Science: a CREATIVE opportunity

The intersection of the creative design process with the analytical scientific method opens a new set of unexpected opportunities to the development of new agile and creative scientific methodologies. Design thinking shares more similitudes than differences with the scientific work. Both aim at producing new insights and answers to questions that can improve the quality of life of people. Both use clear and defined frameworks to guide processes toward the desired goals. Both share the inspiration from people and nature, fundamentals of any creative process. The interaction of design and science is realized by any effort that uses a creative process to reveal new information or understanding. In the end, it’s all about new knowledge and better understanding of our lives and our environment.

Laura, Shuo, Kevin, Fdo,.

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Cornell | crowdsourcing bird observations

http://content.yardmap.org/