JULIA SOLANO

artist, designer | community architecture / futures / watercolor, riso, bamboo design+build

Speaking

Risky Business: Climate Change, Design, and Avoiding Unforeseen Consequences, San Francisco Design Week (2023)

Auroville, Arcosanti, Findhorn – Lessons from Ecovillages around the world, Auroville, India; Guest speaker (2023)

Design Principles for Systems Change: Cooperative by Armillaria; Panel Moderator with Tara Chklovski, Aniyia Williams, Stuart Fulton (2022)

Mutual Aid Webinar by the Rights and Dignity Working Group; Panel Moderator with Mariama Kaba, Wangui Kimari, Yin Q, and Leah Austin (2021)

Organizational Trauma & Resilience at Arcosanti (2021)

Design Innovation at Berkeley, UC Berkeley; Guest speaker, moderated by Alice Agogino with Eric Liang, Casey Rodgers, Shanthi Shanmugam, Charlene Shong (2016)

Press

Humanitas AI, Dandi
Forbes – 60 Women-Led Startups That Are Shaking Up Tech Across The Globe
Featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2018

Volta
Popular Science – Concept Rocking Chair That Could Power Your Phone
Berkeley Alumni Association – Rock On: A Student-Designed Rocking Chair Generates Energy to Charge a Cell Phone
Yahoo Tech – The Volta Rocking Chair Charges Your Phone With Energy-Generating Rocks
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Trend Hunter – Energy-Generating Rocking Chairs
PSFK – A Rocking Chair That Charges Your Phone
Tech Times – Rocking Chair For Millennials: Charge Your Phone While Sitting In This Smart Chair

Pum
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Pum about published in UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Arts + Design Publication (2016)

The Fantastic World of Fungi - Children's Museum Exhibit
Santa Cruz Children's Museum of Discover

Published Poetry
Bay Area: Born Raised and Sold in BAMPFA Zine (2014)
If I could teach a girl in She's the First Poetry Anthology (2012)
Death in "In my Life" Poetry Anthology (2012)

Other
Open IDEO - Microloans for Students
Daily Cal - Start Up Weekend
Daily Cal - Take Back the Night
California Dream Week