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Design Sprints

Projects are largely team based, with a one to two week timeline to develop a concept, prove its value, and represent the end goal.

Quantum Crystals

Team Members & Contributors:
Ricardo Jnani Gonzalez, Interaction Design & Storytelling
Prof. Peter Shor., MIT Mathematics
Prof. Seth Lloyd, MIT MechE
Ian Kivlichan, PhD Physics, Harvard University
Timothy Fahey, Supercomputing in Geology

Quantum Computing remains obscure to most people. This project is a think-tank based sprint to illustrate  an experience that shows a potential, in this case playful, application. According to experts, Quantum Computing could allow very precise simulations of increasingly complex situations. Quantum Crystals is an experience that allows a person to design their very own ice crystal, in real time and with real-world prececise weather parameters. ; each as unique as the user.


Project Aerial

Team Members & Contributors:
Ricardo Jnani Gonzalez. Interaction Design & Storytelling
Kainoa Marchello. Hawaiian Forestry Preservationist
Robert Twitchell. Deep Diving Competitor & Instructor
Eduardo Lopez. Photographer & Videographer
Joshua Choi. Computation

IoT Design Challenge: Envision, design, and prototype an experience which helps to engage small businesses with emerging technologies while demonstrating both immediate and long-term usefulness of IoT services.
Proposal: The experience envisioned allows users to view, embed, and share information in the physical world through a real-time Merged Reality drone application


This project is an exploration into generating a tactile means of communicating the wide variety of tones across languages. Rather than focusing on conveying information to the impaired, as braille does, we aimed to highlight the qualities of sound – the sharpness, smoothness, etc., of the simple and dear phrase "hi mom."

Team Members & Contributors:
Ricardo Jnani Gonzalez, Design & Digital Fabrication
Akshay Dalay, Computer Science & MBA Sloan MIT
Samantha Darryanto, Fashion Designer
Andrew Flamang, MBA Sloan MIT
Prof. J Meejin Yoon, Department Head of Architecture MIT
Neri Oxman, Mediated Matter, Media Lab MIT


An IoT device that senses & maps smoke, mold, humidity, radon & carbon monoxide through rolling about your environment. As you take it with you, information is shared to gradually & collectively map the health of your home, neighborhood, town, etc.

Ricardo Jnani Gonzalez, Interface & Computational Design
Danica Arimany,  Master in Fine Arts
Jenny Larios Berlin, MBA Candidate, Sloan MIT
Desmond Lim,  Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Prof. J Meejin Yoon, Department Head of Architecture MIT
Neri Oxman, Mediated Matter, Media Lab MIT


PneuSkin

A Second Skin: Generating Information Of Our Extended Surroundings Through Haptic Stimuli. PnueSkin is a wearable tool that communicates information through a full-body tactile braille;  a haptic augmented reality. Through a series of air channels, the suit is able to create patterns of touch and motion throughout the body.

Ricardo Jnani Gonzalez, Haptic Pnuematic Prototyping
Cagri Hakan Zaman, MIT CSAIL
Pattie Maes, Fluid Interfaces, MIT Media Lab