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Prototyping Resilience: Using games to engage communities in disaster response

by maiorana Posted on May 18, 2021

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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AIGA Converge 2017 – Long Paper

by maiorana Posted on June 1, 2017

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

by maiorana Posted on March 13, 2017

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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