Co-term grad student Indu Premakumar and GSB student Joy Sun work on a project to develop a tool for more efficiently processing candle nuts for their ’Design for Extreme Affordability’ class.
The newly renovated Building 550, which brings together the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design - better known as the d.school - and the Design Group of the Mechanical Engineering Department, is designed for redesign. After four moves in five years, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design finally has a home in the newly renovated Building 550. But the institute's culture of innovation and improvement means the inside of the building is designed to be always changing. "The most important thing we've learned so far about how to design our space is that everything needs to be on wheels," said David Kelley, founder of the institute, commonly known as the "d.school." The building, which opened this spring, brings together students and faculty from Stanford's d.school and the Mechanical Engineering Department's design group to collaborate on innovative projects. On May 7, there will be an official opening event to celebrate their new home. The d.school, founded in 2005, is a non-degree program that teaches students across the university to use design methodology to tackle problems in their own fields. The school works with about 350 students, whose primary interests range from law to business, education, medicine and engineering.
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