Actively engaging the public in urban design planning is essential to both establishing a strong sense of community and nurturing ownership of that community’s prosperity. Unfortunately, participation in such a process is often challenging for the general public due to…
Calling all entrepreneurs, designers, engineers and problem solvers! Register for the Kickoff and Information Session on Sept 21 Register for the 2017 D4SD Civic Design Challenge on Sept 22-23 In a combined effort to solve complex city problems through human-centered design…
Last week, UC San Diego Design Lab Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science Steven Dow and postdoctoral fellow Narges Mahyar spoke at the Collaboratory for Downtown Innovation’s (CDI) Game Changer series to introduce a new strategy and program, "Design San Diego."…
As part of the Design Lab's graduate course work on Crowdsourcing taught by Steven Dow, students explored models —such as paid micro-work, citizen science, crisis informatics, and games with a purpose— to bring large groups of people together to make something…