Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
PROJECTS | 2021
StyroMeal
Erin Walski, Aprill Park, Bailey Yonkman, Jenny Li
StyroMeal proposes a method for feeding polystyrene to mealworms that are then sold as fishing bait.
Finalist Team
Instructor - 2021
Dr. Deepa Butoliya
Dr. Deepa Butoliya is an assistant professor at Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. She is a researcher and educator in industrial design and biodesign and design research. Deepa’s research over the past 10 years has focused on critical perspectives and practices in design that are located at the intersection of models of knowledge and critical thinking emerging from multiple and global perspectives. Her research is rooted in exploring critical design practices from the global south and involves exploring the criticality embedded in the ubiquitous and very human practice of Jugaad which is a hindi term for makedo situated under severe constraints.