M.P.S. Human Ecology – Design + Environmental Analysis
Explore people, environments, and technology — and launch your next career move.
Daniel Casasanto
Daniel Casasanto is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Psychology at Cornell University and director of the Experience and Cognition Laboratory. He studies how the diversity of human experience is reflected in our brains and minds: how people with different physical and social experiences come to think, feel, and act differently, in fundamental ways. To study cognitive diversity across cultures, his lab conducts research on five continents, using methods that range from watching children
Rhonda Gilmore
As a design educator, I believe in balancing critical inquiry with skill development: teaching students how to use their intellect and utilize their skills to problem-solve for a design-hungry world is both challenging and immensely rewarding. This combination of left brain / right brain functions known as the design process improves the human condition and I view my role as a guide for students as they endeavor to learn from those problems that require and
- Sep 18 ,2026
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Zoom.
Designing for Absence
Simon Thorogood is a distinctive research-led fashion artist and designer, academic, and creative consultant whose work sits at the intersection of fashion, digital media, music, architecture and critical theory.
He is part of a generation of British experimental fashion practitioners associated with the intellectual culture surrounding Central Saint Martins during the 1990s and is acknowledged as one of the very first designers to integrate digital technology and coding into fashion practice, presentation and communication.
He
- Sep 14 — 18 ,2026
- The Human Ecology Commons
Human Ecology Unplugged
Cornell Unplugged is a new initiative to encourage students, faculty and staff to be as unplugged as possible throughout the week of Sept. 14-20. As part of this initiative, we will be hosting Human Ecology Unplugged. Review the series of events, activities, and opportunities to put down your phone, close your laptop and connect with others or yourself.
Visit the Human Ecology Unplugged table in the Commons to:
- Grab a board game, puzzle, conversation starters
