Josette Melchor // Newtemporary: Designing in the Space Between New and Next

AI can write code, but it can't decide what's worth building. This hackathon is about taste, creativity, and judgment: the human side of building with AI. If you have ideas you care about and want to bring them to life, join us! Engineers, designers, product thinkers, business minds, and storytellers are all welcome :) Teams: 1-4 people Capacity: First come, first serve! Spots are limited, and you'll get an email once you're approved. If plans change, please cancel your RSVP so someone on the waitlist can take your place! Judges: Google Labs / DeepMind, Amazon, and more Prizes: Incubation opportunities, interviews, and exclusive coffee chats with startup founders, VCs, and industry leaders Schedule 12:30 PM: Check-in & team formation 1:00 PM: Kickoff & sponsor tool demo (Glasser AI) 1:30 PM: Hacking & mentoring 4:30 PM: Expo judging round 5:15 PM: Top 5 team presentations 5:45 PM: Judge deliberation 6:15 PM: Winners, prizes & photos 6:30–7:00 PM: Open networking & wrap-up Hosted by DiversaTech Consulting DiversaTech is a tech consulting organization at UC Berkeley. Its members come from many backgrounds and majors, united by the belief that collaboration across disciplines brings clients fresh perspectives on their challenges. Learn more: https://www.diversatech.org/

Join us Tuesday, November 17 at 5:30 PM for a talk with Dawn Danby and David McConville, co-founders of Spherical, an integrative research and design studio working to regenerate the health and integrity of Earth’s living systems. Through design, research, and technology, Spherical explores how human systems are embedded within larger ecological, cultural, and planetary webs of relation, and how new forms of infrastructure might support reciprocal relationships with the living Earth. In this talk, Dawn and David will examine how climate action is often made politically viable through the language of infrastructure, and why that framing is both necessary and incomplete. Rather than treating infrastructure as a purely technical system, they will argue for a broader understanding that includes the nested scales, living relations, and more-than-human worlds that sustain life. Drawing on their work across ecological design, planetary systems, and media arts, they will explore how climate solutions demand new ways of seeing, mapping, and designing in relation to the Earth. Attendees will be invited to rethink infrastructure not simply as built form, but as a living scaffold for reciprocal care, repair, and transformation. This talk is open to the public and is for designers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in climate, systems thinking, and the role of design in shaping more livable futures. .................... Design Field Notes is a lecture series where we invite the public to the UC Berkeley campus for conversations with designers, makers and artists who are contributing to shaping the future through design. If you require accommodation for a disability for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Jacobs Institute staff at jacobsinstitute@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible an