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

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

Open House: Institute of Design (ID) Master of Design Methods

April 6, 2023
5:00-6:00pm CST
Online

Learn about our executive master’s program for established professionals. This program at the Institute of Design (ID) is known as our Master of Design Methods (MDM) program.

The Master of Design Methods provides a creative alternative to the MBA. Offered primarily online with occasional in-person events, ID’s MDM brings together a cohort of experienced professionals from diverse industries.

As a learner and leader, you’ll become a strategy expert, equipped to propel your organization forward with the latest design methods. And you’ll discover how to use design to see, and build, what’s next.

Please Note: This sessions will be hosted via Zoom. The time listed is in Central Time.

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