STEAM + SEAD

Discover UC Berkeley's creative innovations as we join the arts, design, and culture with the sciences, technology, engineering, and medicine. We'll explore the role of creativity in communicating and catalyzing discoveries in artificial intelligence (AI), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR); neuroscience (the brain), the human genome, data science, and so much more.

Spring 2021 Schedule Archive: Arts + Design Thursdays

Spring 2021 Schedule
Arts+Design Thursdays: Time-Based Media Art

Spring 2021 Schedule
Arts + Design Mondays: Together: Reinventing Politics, Reimagining Health
 

Fall 2020 Schedule
Arts + Design Mondays: Together: Reinventing Politics, Reimagining Health

 

Fall 2020 Schedule
Arts + Design Thursdays: Visual Cultures: Aesthetics of the Digital

 

If necessity is the mother of invention, more than a few winners of the campus’s first-ever Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grants found inspiration in the teaching and learning challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Creative Discovery Grants 2019-2020

For another year in a row, Berkeley Arts + Design awarded Creative Discovery Grants to Berkeley faculty seeking to develop new undergraduate courses or to enhance existing ones through creative, engaged, participatory learning te

Four (brilliant!) finalists named for 2020 University Medal

Berkeley is known globally as a center of academic excellence, attracting the best and brightest students from the United States and the world. But in every class, a small cohort of students are distinguished by their wide-ranging interests, deep commitment and, of course, hard work.

Nine faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Nine UC Berkeley faculty members from a wide range of disciplines have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), a 240-year-old organization honoring the country’s most accomplished artists, scholars, scientists and leaders.

2020 Creative Discovery Grant Recipients

Discovery Experiences represent the most transformative forms of scholarly and experiential learning and powerfully express what it means to receive an education at a major public research university in the 21st century.

Spring 2020 Schedule: Arts + Design Thursdays

*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, all remaining events will be moved online. Please check back for more details regarding individual events.*

Spring 2020 Schedule
Arts + Design Thursdays: Public Art and Belonging