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

NOWhaus 2016

April 21, 2016
6:30-8:30pm CST
327 N Bell Ave
Chicago
IL 60612,

NOWhaus is an annual event led by IIT Institute of Design students. Through fun, fast-paced PechaKucha presentations, students and staff will share their crazy interests, secret obsessions and quirky observations of the world as seen through the eyes of a designer. There will also be chances to mingle with the Chicago design community at large over food and drinks.



Your ticket includes admission, food and 2 drink tickets. Check back at a later date for the speech topics!

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