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July 2014

Designing the Microbiome: Bacterial Cultures Lab Inquiry

July 30, 2014

By Dr. Christina Agapakis, Adjunct Faculty When it comes to bacteria, we can’t seem to make up our minds. On one hand, many people won’t leave home without their anti-bacterial hand sanitizer. On the other,…

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Lab track students in the Media Design Practices (MDP) program at Art Center College of Design work with emerging ideas from technology, science and culture.

2013-14 Lab Inquiries:
Detourism
Ciphertexts and Cryptoblobs
Against Nature
Wearable Ecologies
Utopiates

Lab Inquiries are at the heart of the Lab track curriculum. Inquiries are a series of intensive 2-5 week projects in which students use design as a mode of investigation, asking critical questions about the world of the future and what it means to design that world.

Thesis projects may tackle new topics or build upon the work that a student developed in response to the Lab Inquiries.

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  • Tim Durfee named 2017-18 C.O.L.A. Fellow
  • From Feminist AI Projects to Artificial Knowing

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