In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design was folded into Illinois Tech's School of Design & Society.
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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Meghna Prakash

Assistant Director and Design Researcher, Equitable Healthcare Lab

Meghna Prakash

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Meghna Prakash is Assistant Director of the Equitable Healthcare Lab at the Institute of Design, where she applies service design to care delivery with the goal of making healthcare in the United States more equitable, inclusive, and accessible using human-centered, systems design.

Meghna has a background in architecture and service design with experience designing solutions that are fit for deployment. She has worked across industries such as education, consumer goods, supply chain, furniture warehousing, and construction. Meghna is adept at working through the end-to-end design process: taking an idea from concept to implementation with appropriate stakeholder engagement and cross-functional involvement.

Meghna earned her Master of Design degree from the Institute of Design.