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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Abdulaziz AlJaziri

Deputy CEO & COO of Dubai Future Foundation, UAE

Abdulaziz AlJaziri is the Deputy CEO & COO of Dubai Future Foundation. In this role, he reimagines, inspires and designs Dubai’s future in collaboration with public and private sector partners. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Corporate Social Responsibility Fund and a Board of Directors of Dubai Future Academy. He also leads the Dubai Future Accelerators, One Million Arab Coders, and Dubai 10x initiatives within the Dubai Future Foundation. He was a member of the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Award jury in 2019.

He holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE.

Shapeshift Session

Keynote: Future-Proofing an Entire City: Behind Dubai’s Obsession With the Future | Thursday, May 29

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