Seona Joung, as a first-generation immigrant, has often dwelled in the in-between spaces of two geographies and cultures. Her thesis, Home in Progress: Designing Systems of Collective Care for Migrant Communities through Food and Multi-Sensory Experience, questions how design constructs and narrates a new relationship between people and multiple locations and thus serves as an ideal site to interrogate how immigrants relate themselves to the place of origin and the place of residence. Looking at the consequences of what migration does to the family relationship and social structure that influence our identity and health, her design work offers multilocal strategies that leverage sensory experiences, specifically triggered by food preparation and consuming.

In his thesis, Journey to the West: Integration of Chinese students in America, Hui Zheng set out to face his contemporaries' problems, focusing on the international student community in the United States. Hui argues that the most significant challenges in this journey are finance, information, language, and culture. In his projects involving multiple disciplines, he answered each of the topics with unique design styles. He hopes that the effort to tackle the challenges in his thesis may encourage more designers to join the league against this inequality that exists under the surface.