Destigmatizing Dementia with Design
For the roughly 50 million people worldwide living with dementia, daily life can become a struggle, characterized by confusion, forgetfulness, and difficulty completing everyday tasks. It takes a toll...
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Architecture and Landscape Architecture Come Together to Reimagine Closed Bronzeville Schools
In 2013 the City of Chicago approved the closure of 49 public elementary schools, the largest school closure in United States history. Reports showed that the move was most detrimental to the students...
A Plot for a Lot: Architecture Students Create Proposals for Development in Bronzeville
At the corner of 43rd Street and Prairie Avenue, right next to a Green Line “L” station, sits a long-vacant lot owned by the City of Chicago. It is one of the many vacant lots in the city’s...
The Rice Stuff: ID Student Brings Beloved Japanese Food Staple to Chicago
In Japan, onigiri is everywhere. The rice balls, filled with meats and veggies, are consumed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and have a history that goes back centuries. Onigiri, like sandwiches in...
Designing a Return to a More Inclusive Workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how we think about the spaces in which we work, most of all signaling the death knell of the open office plan. Offices are complex places, filled with...
Carlos Teixeira to be Named Charles L. Owen Professor in Design
Carlos Teixeira (Ph.D. DSGN ’02), associate professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design, will be named the Charles L. Owen Professor in Design, in recognition of his impactful...
How Design Is Demystifying Cancer Treatment
External beam radiotherapy is the most common treatment for cancer, yet the process, compounded by the uncertainty that a cancer diagnosis can bring, is intimidating and unfamiliar to most patients...
Alumnus and Faculty Member Dawveed Scully Makes Crain’s 40 Under Forty List
Crain’s Chicago Business has released its 30th annual 40 Under Forty list, which names young professionals in Chicago who have made a significant impact on the city and its communities. This year...
Smoothie Making Finds Its Zen with Institute of Design Students
As busy consumers become increasingly more health conscious, a cottage industry of health-oriented vending machines from the likes of Farmer’s Fridge, Byte Foods, and Chowbotics are providing...
Institute of Design Professor Offers Lessons in Product Design in New Book
Martin Thaler, a studio professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design and a product design expert, is the co-author of a new book 101 Things I Learned in Product Design School...