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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Past Event

Responsible AI: Media & Information Literacy

November 13, 2024
6:30-8:30pm CST
Steelcase WorkLife Center Showroom, New York City
4 Columbus Circle
New York, NY 10019
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SHAPESHIFT Global Series

Leaders at the center of moving AI capabilities into media and publishing explore how to make this transition responsibly.

In 2024-25, ID will host the Shapeshift Global Series, a series of 5 global events on the same theme: Responsible AI.

Our New York City salon will focus on the future of media and information literacy, bringing together leaders working at the forefront of AI capabilities in media, publishing, and knowledge tools. This event will explore how AI is reshaping the way we produce and consume media, and how we can make this transition responsibly and ethically.

Speakers Include:

• Liz Danzico, Vice President, Design, Microsoft AI

• Robin Kwong, Director of Product Management and Data Services, Yahoo News

• Jun Lee, GEMIC Consulting

• Anijo Mathew, Dean, Institute of Design at Illinois Tech

• Judd Morgenstern, Partners Resolute

• Georg Petschnigg, SVP and Head of Design, New York Times

• Albert Shum, Advisor to the Dean, ID and former CVP of Design, Microsoft

Co-Hosted by Microsoft, Steelcase, and ID Alumni

The Global Shapeshift Series shifts the current focus on AI—from technology to real-world applications, from Silicon Valley to other parts of the world. By doing so, we can be intentional about the innovations we want, leapfrog legacy systems, and lead radical new implementations.

For more, check out ID’s 2024 report, Taking Responsibility in the Age of AI, which outlines five urgent challenges organizations face today.

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