San Francisco State University

projects 2024

Cloud Haven

Finalist Team

Zac Ponce, Emily Monson, Elizabeth Mindra, Karina Ng

Cloud Haven is a fog harvesting hydrological tower that will provide potable water to communities throughout San Francisco to combat the increasingly urgent issue of water scarcity. The project uses passive means of harvesting, filtering, and dispensing water for the public for drinking, gardening, storing, or any other water needs. Using fog harvesting mesh as well as taking influence from biological fog harvesters such as the Namib desert beetle, the tower has a textured surface that forms water droplets that flow down the surface into the biofiltration features for use by the community.

The SFSU Sustainable Materials Learning Library

Finalist Team

Angelica Castillo, Louis Franco, Jeremy Huang, Abraham Segura

The San Francisco State University Sustainable Materials Learning Library resources and advocates alternative, sustainable bio-based, recycled, and upcycled materials as a way of life. Through providing resources and inspiration, this library offers not only a physical materials resource, but innovative storytelling through exhibitions of the materials themselves and sample products created from them. The library collaboration taps into multiple platforms to educate consumers, product manufacturers, designers, the construction industry, and the public on the critical need to shift to sustainable bio-based materials and recycled materials in the manufacture of consumer products and in the initiation of new construction.

Bloody Mary

Erika Lebedeva, Diego Borba, Kim Truong, JoJo Minnick

Bloody Mary is a conceptual product based on a dystopian future, addressing womens’ fears during night life. The Bloody Mary Bracelet shoots the user’s own menstrual blood and luminol mixture onto undesired or dangerous advances. The concept addresses women’s safety issues and reimagines a world where offenders take accountability for their actions.

Dr. Fernando Carvalho is a designer with a primary focus on healthcare service, products and systems. His research integrates participatory design and behavior change to the creation and improvement of healthcare service provision. Fernando is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University.

JD Beltran is a designer, media artist, filmmaker, and writer. Her work, which blends the narrative and abstract in investigating how materials tell stories, has been exhibited internationally, including at the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The M.H. de Young Museum, The Getty Institute, The Kitchen in New York, the MIT Media Lab, Cité des Ondes Vidéo et Art Électronique in Montreal, ProArte in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Fei Contemporary Art Center in Shanghai, China. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and was a longtime faculty at both the San Francisco Art Institute and in the Design Division of California College of the Arts. Beltran also is the recipient of design and art’s most honored awards, including awards for creating one of the top design works internationally (German Design Award 2019 and CES Innovation Award 2018) and creating one of the top public artworks in the US (Public Art Network 2009) and the world (New Technology Art Association 2014). She also received multiple annual awards for her work from the former International Design Magazine (ID Magazine).