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

Strategy World Tour São Paulo

October 10-12, 2016
State of São Paulo
São Paulo
SP 03003,

In São Paulo, the rapid pace of change and critical crises across many sectors, also suggests opportunities for human-centered advancement that design can help inform. In October 2016, IIT Institute of Design will embark on its second year of the Strategy World Tour with a three day tour of São Paulo. A small group of designers, executive, researchers and students will participate in the immersive experience. We’ll visit leaders of the emerging fintech industry like Nubank and Jeitto—leveraging new digital technology to provide financial services previously unavailable in the region—as well as leadership pushing the envelope on creative banking solutions. We'll meet influential venture capitalists who support startups and workshop in the maker space WE FAB. We'll visit Fluxo, a networked journalism collective created by Bruno Torturra, responsible for Mídia Ninja, a journalism phenomenon that emerged from the protests in Brazil. We'll explore emerging examples of innovation solutions in education and those stemming from the global maker movement.


October 8-9


In addition to the core program, we invite participants to attend an optional overnight at the scenic FAF coffee farm and bed and breakfast on the outskirts of the city on the Saturday and Sunday preceding the tour.


Special Guests






Additional guests will be announced shortly.


Silvia Barretto, Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza
Bruno Torturra, Founder of Mídia Ninja






To learn more about the Strategy World Tour schedule for 2016-2017, visit us at strategyworldtour.com.


Additional Tour Dates


Mexico City February 27 - March 1, 2017
Bogotá May 3 - 5, 2017

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