MIAD 2023 Senior Exhibition embraces challenges

Some of this year’s projects include:

• A smart garment that regulates fluctuating body temperatures for skiing in a new way yet is informed by Inuit, Tibetan and Mongolian clothing.
• A board game inspired by a family’s health challenge that helps those with low vision adapt to their impairment in an engaging, fun play experience for both the vision impaired and the sighted.
• An app that offers a dynamic social experience for film and TV enthusiasts, including freeform discourse, user-generated content, personalized recommendations and a gamified point system.
• A sculptural installation that uses collective artificial intelligence to study and reclaim a family’s fragmented dynamics and history following death and grief.
• A website dedicated to providing people sustainable, nature-based alternatives to their conventional grass lawn based on a free, regional lawn analysis.
• A daily activity book to facilitate an effective mindset for learning through imaginative and narrative play.
• A stylized version of Loteria (Mexican bingo) to engage Gen Z Mexican/Americans in playing a beloved traditional game with a modern twist.
• A sculptural installation exploring themes of longing, admiration and familial love by an artist and former combat medic whose role as a mother most informs her work.
• A sustainable redesign proposal for the Australian sector of the Kansas City Zoo focused on increasing child education and engagement with conservation.
• An exploration of landscape through animation, prints and poetry that draws from Native North American cosmologies and European-American settler attitudes.
• A pop-up dollhouse for on-the-go play that combines a toy and a book, allowing children to have fun while simultaneously representing the architecture of Puerto Rican homes.
• A “conceptual” redesign of a mid-century home in Fox Point (WI) for a future empty-nester family.
• A sculptural tabernacle and arc installation that provides a safe space for queer people to learn about and explore a more spiritually balanced life.
• An illustrated celebration of Milwaukee and transit design history, especially mid-century America, through posters, bus wrap, payment cards and swag.
• A sculptural installation that uses artificial intelligence to investigate magic, beginnings and transformation, blurring the line between technology and magic and ancient and futuristic.