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Challenge 13: Portfolio

Published on May 14, 2019August 20, 2022 by general

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Taste the Changing Forest, Institute of Contemporary Art, 2025

Taste Cartographies, National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, 2025

Joining Dartmouth as Inaugural Director of the Design Initiative, 2025

The Collective Vision Framework: Enhancing Team Intelligence Through Transparent Multi-Dimensional Skill Visualization, 2025

Co-Creating with AI in Higher Education: A Human-AI Collaborative Storybook Project, 2025

Brown/RISD Master of Arts in Design Engineering Bridges Disciplines, 2025

The Arts Innovation Lab. A Brown|RISD master’s program mixes design and engineering, 2025

Cultivating Climate Action Through Multi-Institutional Collaboration: Innovative Data Visualization Educational Programs and Exhibits for Public Engagement. NASA Scientific Visualization Studio hosting our work. Direct link to paper published by IEEE, 2024

Flavor Fluency forthcoming book (Penguin), 2024

Grad Show 2024 Presents Thesis Work by RISD’s Global Community of Artists and Designers, 2024

Boston’s Data Landscapes: Visualizing the Urban Experience debuted at the Museum of Science, 2024

Fifteen Professors of the Year, Harvard Crimson, 2016

Top 50 Thinkers: On the Radar 2018
Emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions, 2018

Laura Dern & DL Director Say Creators Need to ‘Catch Up’ With Audience’s Desire for Diverse Stories, AdWeek, 2018

Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses, MIT Media Lab, 2020

A living (room) lab: With students off campus, faculty and staff innovated to redesign hands-on courses, Harvard SEAS, 2020

Chef League (mobile game) challenges you to improvise recipes like the pros, VentureBeat, 2019.

When it comes to innovation, it’s personal: The secret to successful innovation isn’t a great idea; it’s great people, The Business Post, 2019

Smart kitchens need smarter ideas to solve real problems, Fortune, 2019

Design for Desirability: Game design challenge requires students to think outside the box, Harvard SEAS, 2019

Apply the science of desirability to game design at GDC, Gamasutra: The art and business of making games, 2019

Applying human-centered design processes to build successful teams. Into Practice, Harvard Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning, 2019

Tech that helps us understand ourselves, Future Assembly, 2019

Women changing the way we think about innovation. Stern Speakers, 2019

Loneliness, the fear of digital nomads, Le Temps. (in French), 2019

LA Design Festival spotlights city’s ‘creative diversity and talent’, Dezeen, 2018

Rolling toward a user-friendly commute
Harvard faculty-led startup pioneers human-centric urban travel, 2017; Vespa’s New Robot Will Carry Your Groceries, CNN Money, 2017

Five Cutting Edge Ideas and Attractions, Boston.com, 2017; Technology That Helps Us Understand Ourselves, HUBWeek, 2017

Food for Thought: Flavor & Algorithms, MIT Museum, 2017

Harvard Aims to Reinvent Business-Engineering Education, Harvard Magazine, 2017

Globetrotting Digital Nomads: The future of work or too good to be true?, Forbes, 2015; Why is a Harvard professor studying digital nomads, Nomadlist, 2015

The nature of desirability, The Design Issue, Kinfolk Magazine (paywall), 2015-2016

Harvard Class Teaches the Design of Desirability, Boston Magazine, 2015

A new model for innovation in big companies, Harvard Business Review, 2013

Present at the Creation (Putting research-based creativity tips to the test), Boston Magazine, 2013

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Email: ba[at]desirabilitylab.com

THANKS TO EARLY SUPPORTERS:

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis

RISD+Brown MA Design Engineering

Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching

Harvard Innovation Lab

Harvard Global Health Institute

Berkman Center for Internet and Society

SUTD-MIT International Design Center

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