In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design was folded into Illinois Tech's School of Design & Society.
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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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REFLECTIONS: Our First Online Student Show

ID unveils End of Year Show (EOYS) May 15

By Kristin Gecan

May 1, 2020

EOYS 2020: Reflections

ID students and faculty are finding new ways to share their work this year. EOYS 2020 is ID’s online debut of what is a longtime tradition—usually in the form of an in-person exhibition and end-of-year celebration:

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Design reflects and transforms a continually changing world. A dialogue with self, team, work, and systems is critical in shaping us as the next generation of designers. With more nuanced, more inclusive perspectives, we are rethinking and challenging what is possible. Join us in our first online showcase as we explore the experiences and discoveries of our community in the last year. May these Reflections continue to inspire and provoke the work that follows.

—ID EOYS team

The EOYS website will open on Friday, May 15, 2020 at 7:30pm.

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