Seattle Gridlock

If you’re familiar with Seattle, you are likely familiar with its traffic issues — issues which are further exacerbated by accidents that quickly spill traffic into the city’s grid. My capstone team was tasked with solving a problem: How might we motivate drivers to shift their mode of transportation to mass transit during a major incident to reduce traffic?

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Arts + Entertainment

21 events, 10,000 attendees, 120 volunteers

In just nine months, we took A+E from the usual four to six events per year to 21 events, with a record number of free events, collaborations, and fiscal sponsorships of other student commissions.

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Algorithmic Mysticism

Critical design for technological decision-making

Whether you’re scrolling your social media timeline or playing chess against Deep Blue, algorithms are a black box of decisions, inaccessible to the public and sometimes hardly known by their engineers. Algorithms and 8-balls are making decisions that we can’t consciously control. And thus, the concept of algorithmic mysticism was born.

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Common Power Rebrand

Historical significance for a modern brand

From the urgent handwritten signs of Civil Rights protests, to Brazilian Pichação graffiti, Corita Kent's printmaking, and the lettering of 1960s jazz, the Common Power brand is based in emotion, anti-political movements, and stands on the shoulders of those who have dedicated and risked their lives to the fight for equity.

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Human Condition Magazine

A community-focused arts platform

Through storytelling, community, and event programming we uncovered stories of the Seattle arts scene by interviewing and featuring writers, dancers, poets, musicians, photographers, and artists.

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