Critical Making: Curriculum in Art, Design, Engineering, and Culture at UC Berkeley
Maker Faire Bay Area 2017
May 19th-21st
Critical Making is a unique course at UC Berkeley. This panel explores the role of universities in maker culture and education. Students from current and previous semesters will debate and discuss critical design, social justice, protest design, design noir, feminism, and entrepreneurship.
Eric Paulos
Eric Paulos is the founder and director of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley, Director of the CITRIS Invention Lab, Chief Learning Officer for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, and faculty within the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM). He is also a member of Survival Research Laboratories.