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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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ID Design Intersections Conference Discount Code

May 2, 2019
Plan to explore the latest in design thinking at the Design Intersections 2019 conference, to be held Wednesday, May 22 and Thursday, May 23 at the Institute of Design.
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Design + Illinois Tech: An Alumni Panel on the Value of Design

April 11, 2019
Plan to attend a panel discussion on the interdisciplinary value of design study and research, to take place on Thursday, April 18 from 6–8:30 p.m. at the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship.
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Italian Design Day: Design and Future Cities

March 14, 2019
Francesco Zurlo will discuss several case studies on the connections between the city and human relationships, exchanges, memory, signs, and desires.
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