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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

In Flux: End of Year Show 2019

May 17, 2019
6:00-10:00pm CST

IIT Institute of Design
3137 South Federal Street 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60616

Peer inside, pull back the curtain, pop the white bubble at Institute of Design’s end of year show, In Flux.

IIT Institute of Design (ID) teaches us to break barriers. We invite you to explore the ever-shifting parameters of design. This year's theme, In Flux, examines how the meaning of our work uniquely morphs and evolves with each individual perspective. ID is also In Flux, as we re-find our place within the broader Mies Campus community.

ID is a community of design learning and practice. We are system thinkers, coders, artists, adaptive leaders, prototypers, and human advocates. We champion “crazy” ideas and try to imagine the future.

Please join us at In Flux to experience what we do / design / make / test / redo and celebrate another year of pioneering work from our community.

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