Wolverines on Wheels: Envisioning sustainable transportation on campus
Check out how Team 3 from the Winter 2024 SEED Course and Fellowship became Wolverines on Wheels – a new and enthusiastic student organization on campus!
BotaniBot: Designing sensory accessibility at the Matthei Botanical Gardens
BotaniBot, a navigation app designed for those with sensory disabilities, is one of the Winter 2024 SEED Course and Fellowship's incredible teams. But just how did they make it here?
2024 SEED Fellowship: Designing public accessibility
When Smriti Vamaraju and McKenna Owens joined the cohort of the 2024 SEED Summer Fellowship, they embraced the opportunity to investigate what accessibility looks like in public spaces – for a variety of important stakeholders.
LIFT: The importance of listening in the design process
LIFT, which stands for “Leveraging Inclusive Functional Transfers,” is a project team dedicated to offering support for those who provide care for older adults.
IiA 2021 & Envisioning an Anti-Racist World: Team Features
Student teams from across the University of Michigan worked for several months to imagine a future world--and a future campus-- that is anti-racist and developed solutions through C-SED's Innovation in Action program.
Innovation in Action…is Running Virtually!
We are excited to apply our own design process to this year’s program and re-design IiA to meet students where they are: online!
Introduction to Socially Engaged Design: C-SED Goes Virtual
19 students from five schools and colleges spent the week learning the basics of the socially engaged design process through the lens of the challenge question, “How might we support the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti area to uncover needs and address challenges that the ripple effects of COVID-10 will have on small businesses?”
INNOVATION IN ACTION: 2020 Final Showcase
On the morning of a typical Innovation in Action Final Showcase, you can find a familiar scene: teams of students nervously checking their microphones and rehearsing their pitches; judges from all over the country readying their score sheets; and staff members double-checking each detail to make sure every team has the chance to showcase five months of hard work.
September Design Jams Recap
"Design a way to increase beachgoers’ awareness and understanding of the dangers of the Great Lakes while encouraging the safe enjoyment of their beaches and shoreline."
Innovation in Action Team Feature: Reproactive
ReproActive is focused on solving communication and education issues related to sexual and reproductive health for adolescents and young adults. Knowing this a highly stigmatized topic, ReproActive aims to deliver unique tools to relevant stakeholders, adolescents, young adults, healthcare providers, and parents.
