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community & the public

Care-a-van
2022 @ Harvard GSD
Collaborators: Géraud Bablon, Elif Erez, Snow Xu

Mobile van as a hub for food sharing and inter-generational community building to serve Cambridge and Somerville elders.

Featured on the GSD’s website.

Singing Redwood
2019 @ UC Berkeley Digital Humanities
Collaborators: Alisa Khieu, Ieje Kim, Larissa Cope, Mimy Arias, Vivian Liu, Gwen Gettle, supervised by Justin Underhill

Digitally recover a piece of forgotten history (literally from the trash) about disability in California in the early 20th century.

Read more on the Huntington’s website.

Pointing to Meal Points
2017 @ UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute
Collaborators: Evie Liu, Jess Liu, and Maisha Kabir

A provocation that calls attention to the dwindling meal point options on campus and a history about food insecurity on campus.

Stolen/Confiscated.

technology & inter-personal

Recreate the Past
2020 @ MIT Media Lab

Explorations with openframeworks + p5.js to recreate artworks from the past.

Breakup Simulator
2020 @ MIT Media Lab
Collaborators: Erica Luzzi, Noah Deutsch

Enlist the help of AI to practice having difficult conversations and mitigate the harm of ghosting (!)

Friend Crush
2017 @ UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute
Collaborators: Helen Lee, Evie Liu, Maisha Kabir

Construct meaningful relationships through a paired game on your phone case.

individual & identities

Disappearing Strangers
2022 @ Harvard GSD

A performance-based public intervention and multi-media installation that interrogates: what is it like for a stranger to be at the border?

Project website coming soon...

ReTouch
2020 @ Harvard GSD
Collaborators: Michele Chen, Snow Xu

A sensory accessory kit that helps people escape from stress-inducing scenarios in the moment.

Lucid Dream
2018 @ UC Berkeley TDPS

A performance space for (in)actions and tension emerging from isolation and conflicts.

Hi, my name is Maggie.

I’m a product designer based in New York.

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