Institute of Design Archive

Carolina Caycedo: How Legacy Structures Determine Our Reality

June 17, 2021
To premiere ID’s Action Lab Perspectives series, artist Carolina Caycedo presents her approach to artmaking and its relevance to design and changemaking.
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ID Panel Discussion: How Can Design Affect Climate Change?

March 18, 2021
In a panel conversation held Wednesday, April 21, ID associate professor Weslynne Ashton, students, and ID alum Brandon Schauer, Senior Vice President, US Climate Change at Rare.org discuss how design can address climate change.
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ID Panel Discussion On Societal Outcomes of Design: “For Whom Are We Making It?”

March 18, 2021
Register for a panel discussion hosted by ID on Tue, April 27 from noon– 1:00 p.m. about how designers are embracing new roles in society to create new outcomes with those most affected by their designs.
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Design for Equity: Chicago Fines and Fees Reform

March 4, 2021
ID students and faculty joined the Chicago Fines, Fees, & Access Collaborative with the Office of the City Clerk, Anna M. Valencia, to explore how to advance equity in the city’s ticketing system.
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ID Panel Discussion: “Why Are We Making This?”

March 4, 2021
In this annual event series, ID Associate Professor Ruth Schmidt will moderate a conversation with corporate design leaders and academics about what gets made, for whom, and why.
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Chicagoland: A Laboratory for 20th Century Design Innovation

December 1, 2020
Experts reveal the overlaps in design ideas and approaches among creatives who called Chicago home over the past 100 years.
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Learning Cultures | Learning Spaces Symposium

October 15, 2020
Join us for the first collaborative multidisciplinary Symposium on Learning Cultures and Active Learning Spaces led by the College of Architecture, Institute of Design, and the Center for Learning Innovation on Friday, October 23.
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Institute of Design (ID) to Host Book Launch of ‘Bauhaus Futures’

November 5, 2019
“What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if it were practicing today?”
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exploreID: Graphic Narratives in Healthcare

October 3, 2019
Through exploreID, we invite you to explore design at IIT Institute of Design through different lenses and projects. In a project funded by UChicago Medicine’s Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, ID students and faculty explored how visual narratives could better educate patients about radiation therapy.
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Shapeshift 2019: Illinois Tech Design Festival Celebrates Bauhaus In Chicago

September 5, 2019
Institute of Design and College of Architecture will launch the inaugural Shapeshift design festival September 16–28, 2019.
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Institute of Design Archive

Carolina Caycedo: How Legacy Structures Determine Our Reality

ID Panel Discussion: How Can Design Affect Climate Change?

ID Panel Discussion On Societal Outcomes of Design: “For Whom Are We Making It?”

Design for Equity: Chicago Fines and Fees Reform

ID Panel Discussion: “Why Are We Making This?”

Chicagoland: A Laboratory for 20th Century Design Innovation

Learning Cultures | Learning Spaces Symposium

Institute of Design (ID) to Host Book Launch of ‘Bauhaus Futures’

exploreID: Graphic Narratives in Healthcare

Shapeshift 2019: Illinois Tech Design Festival Celebrates Bauhaus In Chicago

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