The Prototyping Systems Lab has been announced as one of seven launch partners for the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence which is led by the Chicago-based Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL).

In early May of 2020 the Prototyping Systems Lab teamed up with a team from the d.school at Stanford University and the Stanford-MIT Healthy Voting Project to use human-centered design and systems thinking to contribute to protecting voter participation in the Fall 2020 election.

This game serves as a prototype for a hypothetical initiative intended to promote sustainable practices. It utilizes the relationship between gravity and distance from the floor to simulate the ways our planet’s natural and human-systems become more fragile as our population grows.

This video captures the installation at the Exploratorium as part of the One Climate Event hosted by the John Muir Institute for the Environment at UC Davis.