RISD Graduate Thesis:
Beacon Public Library

Beacon Public Library (BPL) is part-speculation, part-systems design proposal for asserting and expanding the role of the public library as a civic space for radical care and community resilience in the face of climate change.

2020-2021

Safe Eats

Safe Eats is an app and website proposal for helping restaurants support their customers with food allergies.

2020

Systems Thinker

Systems Thinker is a primer tool for learning and using systems thinking in a format that is interactive, accessible, and encourages group discussion and collaboration.

2020

Circuit Play

Circuit Play emphasizes free play and kinesthetic learning to introduce circuits and conductivity.

2020

Sew Alive!

Sew Alive! lets kids imagine and construct their own light-up soft toy.

2020

Reimagine Bathing

What if we approach bathing in a way that evolves with us as we age? This bathroom system allows its users to isolate parts of the body to create a safe and relaxing partial bathing system.

2019

Flight Weaving

How do we transition between cultures? This project maps recorded flight routes over the geography they pass over to explore the connection between sky and Earth through a process of making that is slow, cumulative, and based in reflection.

2019

Editorial Design

Marie Claire Magazine
Simon & Schuster/Adams Media

2015-2018

Katrina Machado

Designer + Researcher

Katrina Machado

Designer + Researcher

Katrina
Machado