Design Lab at UC San Diego
The Design Lab at UC San Diego is an anchor institution within the San Diego-Tijuana region that pairs design education and research with community needs to create positive and impactful real-world solutions and design-driven innovations.
The Junior Designer program, Design@Large, and Design Lab Impact and Student Culture Organization (DISCO) are three innovative Design Lab initiatives that transcend disciplinary boundaries and pioneer new frontiers in the landscape of design and education.
Junior Designers
The Junior Designer program converts classroom learning to hands-on experience with industry, civic leaders and our binational community projects. Junior Designers have been a critical force behind World Design Capital 2024, Stories Unsheltered and Design for San Diego (D4SD).
Design@Large
Design@Large features world-class thought leaders speaking on their topics of expertise. Organized each quarter around a timely theme, course leadership is rotated among Design Lab faculty to ensure every quarter — and every event — is fresh and compelling. D@L is held each fall, winter and spring quarter of the academic year and is always open to the general public in addition to enrolled students.
DISCO
With the goal of strengthening the culture of service and governance among the graduate students in the lab, DISCO oversees many service-based initiatives, ranging from quarterly happy hours to peer mentorship programs. DISCO initiatives are all led by motivated graduate students who value cultivating a healthy and multi-faceted student culture. DISCO also connects the Director’s Office to graduate students and provides a platform for contributing to the governance of the Design Lab on activities such as faculty hiring and external partnerships.
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