In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design came under new management. This website is an archive of the impactful and inspirational work produced by the ID community before that transition.

László Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937, treating design as a discipline that was teachable, testable, and consequential. Nine decades on, its scope had widened from the things people use to the systems they depend on: hospitals, government agencies, classrooms, supply chains, digital platforms. Along the way, ID community members developed the published research, methods, and frameworks that designers rely on every day.

Chief among them is human-centered design: close attention to how people actually live, and advocacy for what that research reveals. It shaped designers who are comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: curious, rigorous, inclusive, and stubbornly optimistic about design's ability to change the systems that shape our lives.

To every one of them, who taught, studied, built, critiqued, and stayed late in the studio: thank you, and keep designing.

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Past Event

Designing Strategic Conversations with Chris Ertel

April 14, 2014
5:30-7:30pm CST
IIT Institute of Design, 6th floor
350 N LaSalle St
Chicago, IL 60654

Can design transform our most important conversations? That’s the question addressed in a new bestselling book by a Doblin team alumnus, released in February 2014.


Moments of Impact is a book on a mission: to transform time-sucking, energy-depleting meetings and workshops into strategic conversations that create engagement, alignment, and action. In this talk, Chris Ertel unveils a simple, creative process that leaders and their teams can use to craft solutions to their most vexing issues, drawing on concrete examples in an interactive discussion format.


Join us for Chris Ertel's talk on Moments of Impact and a reception at IIT Institute of Design Monday, April 14 hosted by Doblin, the innovation practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP


About Chris


Chris Ertel is a director at Deloitte Consulting LLP who specializes in the design and delivery of high-stakes strategic conversations for clients and priority firm initiatives. He has seventeen years’ experience as an advisor on strategy and innovation to senior executives of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and large nonprofits in more than 20 industries. Chris holds a M.A. in cultural anthropology and a PhD in demography from the University of California at Berkeley and is based in Deloitte’s San Francisco office.

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