This is my (Liz’s) website.
I work at Airbnb on the design systems team and specialize in prototyping.
I am currently getting my Master’s in Design Engineering from Harvard focusing on computational design.
I do research at the Laboratory for Values in the Built Environment.
I also
hold a BA in Clinical Psychology from UC Berkeley.
If you have any questions, want to work together, or otherwise have complaints, email here.
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Context
As part of my studies under José Luis García del Castillo y López in computational design, I worked on erosion simulations of different rivers around the world with Hana Khurshid. We wanted to see a world in which these rivers that are so well-known and defined disappeared as they might one day due to climate change. In order to evoke the idea of a science experiment, we wanted to make the river specimens look like petri dishes, each showcasing a specific strain.
Process
We first started by making a simplified diagram of famous rivers around the world. We restricted all of the shapes to simple shapes like triangles, ovals, and squares. We also extracted the main colors for each river manually.
Programs and tools used
This project was first modeled in Figma and then taken into Houdini. Here is our first render test along with the overlay to see if the erosion machine had worked!
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