MID@UArts explores and applies design in a variety of contexts: Our projects connect research and challenges around organizational development, social innovation and interaction design. We engage with our project partners through collaborative forums and workshops promoting a particular theme.

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Humantic Design

The science & design of sustainable collaborations

  • Organizational Design
  • Thesis
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Consider Quality

Consider quality in a consumer discounted world

  • Community Development
  • Thesis
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Love Philly Local Food

Promoting Food Access in Philadelphia Through Urban Agriculture

  • Community Development
  • Thesis
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Distance Knowledge Transfer

Exloring the current untapped potential of on-line education

  • Interaction Design
  • Thesis
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UArts Portal

How can University of the Arts use a large scale multi-touch interface to connect its population?

  • Interaction Design
  • Studio
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M.I.T.S. (Music Interface for Touch Screen)

Ever want to play with arrangements of electronic music on a touch screen?

  • Interaction Design
  • Studio
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PIXEL

What if you could see through other peoples' eyes? Would this allow you to understand their narratives?

  • Interaction Design
  • Studio
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Response, Feedback, and Collaboration in Web Based Distance Education

Distance Education is boring. Chatroulette is fun, engaging, and spontaneous. What happens when the two of these unlikely characters get together?

  • Interaction Design
  • Studio

UV Clean

'UV Clean' was the solution to a problem purposed during Charrette 2009 entitled, 'Swing Design: Money Exchange.'

  • Community Development
  • Charrette
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eContact: Eye contact for video chat

How could eye tracking be used to facilitate online communication?

  • Interaction Design
  • Studio
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Intersecting Civility

Pedestrians, motorists, and cyclists all interact together in shared areas. How can we increase civility in these shared areas?

  • Community Development
  • Studio
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Terra Hall Recycling Project

Aiming to tackle the problem of waste disposal at UArts: confusion.

  • Community Development
  • Studio
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Co-designing Business

What can you do when the current economic climate forces you to rethink your current business model and behavior?

  • Organizational Design
  • Studio

Philadelphia Green Kitchen Project

This yearlong research project was devoted to understanding the effects and connection points of the kitchen as a complex physical and social system.

  • Community Development
  • Studio

Public Spaces

Questioning the typical norms of public and private spaces.

  • Community Development
  • Methods

StudioNEXT 2009

The Master of Industrial Design students collaborated with undergraduates on 5 projects for the local community. These are their stories.

  • Facilitating Education
  • Studio
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Studio Next: Finance

A video recap of a cross-department collaborative effort to address issues within the Finance Office at University of the Arts.

  • Organizational Design
  • Studio
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Cooking up a Restaurant

An urban restaurant guide for Center City Philadelphia, directed toward aspiring restaurant entrepreneurs.

  • Community Development
  • Methods
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Murals Against Crime

This guide investigates the positive impacts of the Mural Arts Program's initiative to combat the high crime rate in Philadelphia by bringing together communities in the creation of murals.

  • Community Development
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New Measures

On average we spend 49.5 minutes preparing, cooking, eating and cleaning in the kitchen each day. Yet 33% of all household resources pass through this space.

  • Interaction Design
  • Studio
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Campbell's

A collaboration with the Campbell’s Corporation in Camden

  • Organizational Design
  • Studio
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Mobile Living

Mobile Living investigates the personalities, culture, network and technological systems already in place and evolving in the new lifestyle of mobile living.

  • Community Development
  • Studio