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Prototyping Resilience: Using games to engage communities in disaster response

Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) 2020 NID Ahmedabad, India Abstract: This paper uses a wildfire evacuation preparedness initiative in the community of Bolinas, California as a way to illustrate how serious games can be used as prototypes … Continue reading

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SOFA Chicago CONNECT

In the spring of 2017, an interdisciplinary team of undergraduates at UC Davis submitted a proposal to SOFA Chicago CONNECT, a national competition. The students’ proposal, Beneath, called attention to land subsidence, the phenomenon of land sinking (in some cases … Continue reading

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AIGA Converge 2017 – Long Paper

Title: Developing Complex Systems With Low-Fidelity Prototypes Author: Thomas Maiorana, Assistant Professor of Design, University of California, Davis Abstract: If design is to continue to make a credible claim that it can solve the world’s most pressing problems, our tools must … Continue reading

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Prototyping Climate Change Scenarios

This video captures the installation at the Exploratorium as part of the One Climate Event hosted by the John Muir Institute for the Environment at UC Davis. This installation was created by Tom Maiorana, Assistant Professor in the Design Department … Continue reading

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Visualizing Connections to OneClimate

Visualizing Connections to OneClimate One Climate Event (Partnership between UC Davis and the Exploratorium) March 13, 2017 Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA Tom Maiorana, Assistant Professor, Department of Design, UC Davis Victoria Baird, MFA Candidate, Department of Design, UC Davis Benjamin … Continue reading

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