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Future Living (Fall 2009)
Instructor:Charles Owen, John Pipino
Team Members: Amanda McKown, Anthony Caspary, Cornelia Bailey, Elise Metzger, Eric Diamond, Eugene Limb, Gene Young, Hannah Swart, Helen Tong, Hsin-Cheng Lin, HyeKyung Yoo, Jessica Striebich, Kshitij Sawant, Mahdieh Salimi, Marilee Bowles Carey, Miguel Angel Martinez, Na Rae Kim, Nikhil Mathew, Owen Schoppe, Paolo Korre, Reenu John, Sally Wong, Tanushree Bhat, Traci Thomas, Xiaonan Huang, Yixiu Wu
A system of components for future housing that supports human aspirations while achieving maximum environmental and economic self-... more
CeaseFire Campaign for Violence Prevention (Spring 2009)
Instructor:Vijay Kumar
Team Members: Amanda Geppert, Apeksha Garga, HyeKyung Yoo, James Barton, Kristine Angell, Shivani Mohan
Students worked with CeaseFire Chicago, an anti-violence organization, to develop a communications strategy to change the thinking... more
Prototyping Chicago Bus Rapid Transit (Fall 2008)
Instructor:Martin Thaler
Team Members: Amy Palit, Amy Seng, David Ofori-Amoah, Dongzhe Sun, Edwin Lee, Jamie Mash, Lise Lynam, Nallieli Santamaria, Nanqian Xu, Saurabh Gupta, Seung Wan Lim, Shivani Mohan, Stephanie Krieger
In 2009 the Chicago Transit Authority, CTA planned to launch a high speed bus service. The Bus Rapid Transit, BRT service is based... more
Chicago: Vision for the Future (Fall 2008)
Instructor:Charles Owen, John Pipino
Team Members: Amanda McKown, Amanda Wirth, Amber Lindholm, Andy Conrad, Ann Hintzman, Cecilia Ambros, Daniel Erwin, Dongzhe Sun, Jennifer Lee, Judd Morgenstern, Leonard Thomas McCue, Marisa Knopman, Matthew Swift, Mehmet Cirakoglu, Nikki Pfarr, Prashant Desai, Ruth Nechas, Ruth Schmidt, William Huang
Concepts for Chicago and similar cities to consider in planning for the next one hundred years.... more
Economic development in Chicago and Mumbai (Spring 2008)
Instructor:Adisorn Supawatanakul, Linda Pulik
Team Members: Amy Sprague, Bhumi Gajjar, Gauri Verma, Kyungsun Kim, Nai-Hwa Chiang, Preethi Narayanan, Shilpa Rao, Swapnil Jadhav, Valerie Campbell
Global design teams address economic development in urban neighborhoods in the Chicago and Bombay.... more
Getting People to Talk (Spring 2008)
Instructor:Jeremy Alexis
Team Members: Gabriel Biller, Kristy Scovel
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The Lived Experience of Sandwiched Caregiver Families (Fall 2007)
Instructor:Judith Gregory
Team Members: Amanda Kaleta-Kott, Eric Swanson
The project explores caregiving and long-term planning in households in which a family member cares for both a younger and an olde... more
Cardiac Cath Lab: IT User Experience & Information Flow (Fall 2007)
Instructor:Judith Gregory
Team Members: Elva Yadira Ornelas, James Heys, Jihyun Sun
The project focuses on cardiac catheterization workflow, IT reporting and hospital information flows in relation to the complexity... more
Rethinking-DesignThinking-Healthcare (Fall 2007)
Instructor:Charles Owen, John Pipino
Team Members: Alexander Troitzsch, Amber Lindholm, Amy Batchu, Amy Palit, Amy Seng, Ashwat Bhoopathy, Fei Gao, Gauri Verma, Hanna Korel, Kichu Hong, Lin Lin, Lise Lynam, Margaret Jung, Matthew Gardner, Min-Joong Kim, Peter Rivera-Pierola, Preethi Narayanan, Rima Kuprys, Soo Yeon Paik, Sriram Thodla, Suat Hoon Pee, Ye Kyung Yoo
A Health Care Framework for Government, Suppliers, Providers, Health Plans and Employers
e-Sullivan (Spring 2007)
Instructor:Chris Conley
Team Members: Taeho Wang, Seungho Chung
This portable handheld communicator for deaf-blind people, who rely solely on tactile sense to acquire information, can convert al... more
Schools in the Digital Age (Fall 2006)
Instructor:John Grimes, Patrick Whitney, Vijay Kumar
Team Members: Kevin Denney
A research initiative funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Patagonia: Opportunities for Urban Dwellers (Fall 2006)
Instructor:Judith Gregory
Team Members: Erik Crimmin, Gabriel Biller, Reiko Takahashi, Valerie Campbell
This project endeavored to understand the Patagonia outdoor clothing company's perception among urban customers, including its com... more
Old Town School of Folk Music (Fall 2006)
Instructor:Judith Gregory
Team Members: Albert Wang, Kristy Scovel, Margo Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Shailesh Patel
The Old Town School of Folk Music is an educational institution at its core, dedicated to... more
Adapting to Massive Climate Change (Fall 2006)
Instructor:Charles Owen, John Pipino
Team Members: Albert Wang, Alexander Cheek, Andrew Buhayar, Chun-Juei Chou, Elisabeth Martinez De Morentin, Eric Niu, Eric Wilmot, Erik Crimmin, Gabriel Biller, Ido Mor, Irene Chong, Jihyun Lee, John Montgomery, Kristian Buschmann, Kristy Scovel, Manoj Kumar Adusumilli, Margo Horowitz, Mario Ruiz, Ming-Shan Wu, Natrina Toyong, Sang-Ho Lee, Yoo-Jung Ahn
It is too late to prevent the effects of global warming. It is not too late, however, to assemble and develop strategies to help u... more
Thinkering Spaces (Fall 2006)
Instructor:Dale Fahnstrom, Greg Prygrocki
Team Members: Alok Chandel, Andrea Small, Chelsea Holzworth, Jennifer Curtis, Jereme Dumm, Lauren Schwendimann
A research initiative funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Information Destruction (Fall 2006)
Instructor:Adriano Galvao
Team Members: Brian Brigham, John Ekholm
A product platform strategy for paper shredders.... more
Arc'teryx: At the Crux (Fall 2006)
Instructor:Judith Gregory
Team Members: Ido Mor, John Kestner, Kyungsun Kim, Max Shapiro
Positioning the Arc'teryx Brand in the Outdoor Sporting World
Remaining Unique and Relevant
Poised as one of the... more
Bank On It (Fall 2006)
Instructor:Brianna Sylver
Team Members: Jessica Gatto, Max Shapiro
A money management game for kids 6 and up, developed using three types of prototyping: conceptual, procedural and behavioral.... more
Value of Forgotten Items (Spring 2006)
Instructor:Jeremy Alexis
Team Members: Rachel Pluto
This project explored shopping behavior in the grocery environment, specifically why shoppers forget items they intended to purcha... more
More Than Bikes (Spring 2006)
Instructor:Jeremy Alexis
Team Members: Henning Fischer, Michael Beebe, Taylor Lies
Trek Corporation has recently invested in reorganizing its channel structure, but without delivering on its promise to cyclists of... more
TreatmentScope (Spring 2006)
Instructor:Bill Hill, Brianna Sylver
Team Members: Lauren Schwendimann
An on-line resource for comparing and integrating traditional, holistic and community-based medical information and options.... more
CommTrak: Marathon Communication System (Spring 2006)
Instructor:JoEllen Kames, Ryan Powell
Team Members: Tina Ro
A system that helps marathon runners, spectators, and support staff stay in touch and share information.... more
Design Thinking (Fall 2005)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Christine Kim, Clinton Barth, Daniel Greene, Derrick Kiker, Enric Gili Fort, Gil-Ock Lee, Henning Fischer, Hyuniee Jung, Joyce Chen, Mark King, Matthew Lennertz, Min Ouyang, Pamela Nyberg, Randy MacDonald, Rishabh Singh, Sarah Nelson, Seungho Chung, Steven Babitch, Waewwan Sitthisathainchai, Yanin Kasemkosolsri
Four projects that extrapolate how design thinking can be extended to new levels of service for institutional and governmental pol... more
InterPlay (Fall 2004)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Glenn Steinberg, Jenny Fan, Ric Edinberg, Yi Leng Lee, Elizabeth Akers
InterPlay involves spectators in sport evaluation. Using a simple hand-held scoring device and expert feedback relayed over public... more
{mesh} Community (Fall 2004)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Indrani Medhi, Jose Sia, Michael Beebe, Sunghan Kim, Taylor Lies, Young Ae Hahn
A series of interrelated and interdependent concepts for the enhancement of community infrastructure. It proposes physical, proced... more
Evolutionary Housing (Fall 2004)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Arpita Agrawal, Kristina Marich, Michael Davis-Burchat, Soungmin Yoo, SoYoung Lee, Stephen Palumbo
An extensive project to seek out, develop, and integrate inventive housing concepts in an adaptive system that could be implemente... more
Visual Language (Spring 2004)
Instructor:Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl
Team Members: Lucas Hackett, Phillip LaFargue II
Several aspects of communication design are well explored - that of communication codes (text, diagram, image, icon, etc.) and tha... more
Seeing & Viewing (Spring 2004)
Instructor:Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl
Team Members: Lucas Hackett
Generating a metaphor is a creative act that brings new meaning to a situation. In contrast, creating an analogy is an analytical ... more
Project Infusion (Fall 2003)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Ahyoung Kim, Eric Holubow, Lucas Daniel, Matthew Locsin, Rachel Hinman, Rinku Gajera, Sara Cantor, Stephen Schneider
Fully 65% of the world's population earns less than $2,000 per year. In a 2002 article for Harvard Business Review, C.K. Prahalad ... more
HealthNet (Fall 2003)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Akilah Williams, Arisa Xumsai, Brandon Schauer, Matthew Hamlin, Ryan Pikkel, Samantha Ruiz, SuDong Cho
HealthNet is a systems design project examining opportunities for improving information, communications and products in an integra... more
Circle Health (Spring 2003)
Instructor:Dale Fahnstrom
Team Members: Brianna Sylver
Circle Health is an Internet website that addresses patient education in a different way by personalizing the information patients... more
Sitka (Spring 2003)
Instructor:Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl
Team Members: Angelo Frigo, Jeffrey Dunn, Sean Gaherty, Stephen Schneider
A card game for kids that explores community challenges and skills.... more
New London (Spring 2003)
Instructor:Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl
Team Members: Cinthya Urasaki, Jennifer Seymour, Jing Wu
A competitive & collaborative board game in which players take on various persona.... more
DirtyHands (Spring 2002)
Instructor:Dale Fahnstrom, Greg Prygrocki
Team Members: Robert Zolna, Shivani Kothari, Yifan Chen
DirtyHands is an environmental learning system consisting of thematic learning sites situated along outdoor paths, linked together... more
BloodValve (Spring 2002)
Instructor:Dale Fahnstrom, Greg Prygrocki, Patrick Whitney
Team Members: Adriano Galvao
BloodValve is a medical device that simplifies the process of selecting, attaching and handling vials, providing a new way for phl... more
Via Chicago: improving regional transit (Spring 2001)
Instructor:Dale Fahnstrom, Greg Prygrocki, Patrick Whitney
Team Members: Jeff Ettenhofer, Jeff Tull, Matt Beebe, Tim K. Murphy, Joanna Barth
Traffic congestion is a growing problem that travelers find frustrating and time consuming. It discourages new business developmen... more
PediaPod (Spring 2001)
Instructor:Dale Fahnstrom, Greg Prygrocki
Team Members: Brian Stonecipher
PediaPod is a medical device accessory that holds infant patients safely and comfortably during heart catheterization procedures, ... more
Access to Justice (Spring 2001)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Adrian Burstein, Anjali Kelkar, Ben Singer, Bernd Kretschmer, Danielle DelCarlo, Divya Singhal, Emily Ulrich, Esperanza Rivera, Ha Jeong Noh, Hans Kaspar Hugentobler, Holly Roeske, Jennifer Joos, Jin Lee, Joerg Kriwath, Loren Gulak, Margaret Alrutz, Michael Heller, Shawn Stokes, Shivani Kothari, Steven Raminiak, Tairan Sun, Jun Lee
Civil justice reform in the United States has failed to address the problems that self-represented litigants experience in their e... more
Aerotecture (Fall 1992)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members:
A large-scale systems project about possibilities at the outer limits of macro-airship technology.... more
Nanoplastics: A Home System (Spring 1992)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Barry Shimelfarb, Bill Hartman, Chris Seitz, Ina Burkhardt, Jan Yeager, Jason Nims, Jason Stanford, Jessica Coffey, Ryan Uesato, Taijoon Lee, Brian Switzer
With a 12,000 year history, the modern home still meets basic needs as shelter, protection, a place to prepare food, a place to re... more
Project Phoenix ( 1988)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members:
The greenhouse effect, the primary contributor to global warming and climate change, has been a subject of debate for many years. ... more
Aquatecture (Fall 1986)
Instructor:Charles Owen
Team Members: Alison Reid, Christian Alfero, Craig Zaplatynsky, Cynthia Gerlinger, Dan Rock , Debra Woldm, Ed Moreno, Elizabeth Gearen, Eric Rives, Erik Newman, Kevin Short, Kimberly Kane, Mark Elliott, Mark Shaw, Roxanne Blomlie, Samuel Unsicker, Scott Lewis, Shrirang Jambhekar, Steven Tornallyay, Maura Podrazik
Mankind is inextricably bound to the water. Beyond our own obvious physiological needs, there are its associations with other life... more
