California College of the Arts Design
PROJECTS 2022
Mosquitoes and Lemons
Zahra Jajarmikhayat
The project created mosquito nets from lemon rinds to replace those with harmful chemical mosquito repellants.
Runner Up
Living Jewelry
Shiyu (Sylvia) Zhang
Living Jewelry is a wearable that brings plants into close contact with human bodies to reimagine the relationship between people and nature.
Instructors 2022
For nearly a decade, Michael Bogan has created and run biological design courses that joined students at CCA with grads and postdocs at Stanford Biology who helped students manipulate life for an artistic or design end of their own choosing. Michael’s exploration began with bio-luminescent cells and has branched out to include explicitly experimental design methodology; collaboration with living, non-human, designers; diagramming and abstraction of bio-patterns with a focus on the mechanisms of their generation; algorithmic imitation of bio-patterns; and live works of art/design. Michael also practices and teaches architecture at Berkeley and CCA. Prior to this, he was the HIV Rights Advocate for San Francisco. He holds advanced degrees from Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Columbia.
Monica Martinez is an entrepreneur, industrial designer, and educator whose creative work explores ideas about food production, storage, and economics (food systems). Her work includes Don Bugito, an edible insect entrepreneurial food project and farm, food installations, architectural designs, dinners, and food offerings. Her work has been reviewed by Nova PBS, PRI’s The World, WIRED, the WSJ, the New York Times and VICE to mention a few. Monica is a native of Mexico City and received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Prior to this, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Monica is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony of New Hampshire and the Sculpture Space in New York. She currently resides in San Francisco, California where she is teaching classes as an adjunct professor in the MFA Design program at the California College of the Arts.
Lauryn Menard is the founder of Oakland-based designs studio PROWL and is currently the co-chair of Women in Design SF. She has spent her career in the product industry as a material and innovation consultant, more specifically in furniture and footwear - working for companies such as Adobe, Nike, Coalesse, Specialized, and more. She is on a mission to work toward a more holistic material future.