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Rosa Weinberg is a design educator and artist based in Massachusetts.



CREATIVE PRACTICE

Attunement
Shimmer
Digital Polished
Breathing
Love is About
Anna’s Delight
Stethosuit
(more)

TEACHING

Beaver Centered Design
Extraordinary Ordinary
User-Centered Design
Juxtapose
Intro to Architecture
Easing Cerebral Palsy
Neighborhood Marvels
(more)

misc.

Speaking + Writing
 Press
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Empathy for the Endangered

2018

SCHOOL

NuVu Studio

Collaborators

Co-taught with Robin Hsieh

expert

Gabe Miller, San Diego Zoo


In collaboration with Gabe Miller of the San Diego Zoo, Students designed and fabricated devices and wearables to help users gain direct experience from the point of view of an endangered animal as a way of building empathy.  

This was accomplished using a variety of strategies. In "Dolphin-like Discombobulation" the dominant sense of dolphins was reinterpreted as vision, and a spinning periscope was used to mimmic the disorientation dolphins experience due to underwater noise pollution. "Empathy Net" sought to recreate the experience of a turtle stuck in a net. "The Resistor" used a cycling mechanism on a leash to allow users to attempt to experience what a fish goes through when caught on a fishing line.

Empathy for the Endangered

2018

SCHOOL

NuVu Studio

Collaborators

Co-taught with Robin Hsieh

expert

Gabe Miller, San Diego Zoo


In collaboration with Gabe Miller of the San Diego Zoo, Students designed and fabricated devices and wearables to help users gain direct experience from the point of view of an endangered animal as a way of building empathy.  

This was accomplished using a variety of strategies. In "Dolphin-like Discombobulation" the dominant sense of dolphins was reinterpreted as vision, and a spinning periscope was used to mimmic the disorientation dolphins experience due to underwater noise pollution. "Empathy Net" sought to recreate the experience of a turtle stuck in a net. "The Resistor" used a cycling mechanism on a leash to allow users to attempt to experience what a fish goes through when caught on a fishing line.