Last month UC Berkeley students proposed creative ideas to solve campus issues by participating in its first Modo Ideathon.

If anyone still had any doubts, they need only look at the maps: the climbing erosion of Louisiana’s shorelines; the migratory patterns of islanders forced to jump ship; the aftermath of drought along the Pacific Coast.

What is the role of public assembly in our current moment? And to what degree are new models necessary to respond artistically and technologically to our political climate?

Spring 2018: Experiment and Exploration

In order better to serve our students and public and to gauge audience, we will now ask you to reserve your seats in advance.

Lauri Twitchell does more than manage UC Berkeley’s 10.5-acre Blake Garden in the hills above campus. She often extends its life in the form of books that she assembles from the teaching facility’s rocks, redwood bark and other natural objects.

Fall 2017 Schedule Archive
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA

California leads the way in finding sustainable energy supplies to combat climate change, but Dan Kammen’s experience in the developing world makes it clear that energy solutions, like politics, must be local.

Students with novel solutions to urgent social issues are encouraged to apply to the Big Ideas contest to receive funding and support they need to get their projects off the ground. The deadline for pre-proposals is Nov. 15.

This year’s deadline for the Big Ideas contest’s pre-proposals is Nov. 15.

David Sedlak, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, addresses our planet's uncertain water supplies. 

So what’s the corpse flower at UC Botanical Garden smell like anyway? “Well, I’d say it smells like dirty gym socks wrapped around a rotten steak,” said Jonathan Goodrich, an associate director at the garden. “Yeah, I’d say that’s pretty descriptive.”