Design Week Schedule - Fall 2025

It's Design Week for Fall 2025!  Design Week is when we celebrate an entire semester's worth of our students' work, with a full week of shows, presentations, displays, and open studios.  Please join us and see what the future of design looks like!

Unless otherwise noted, all events are open to the public.
MMCH = Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall

Thursday 12/4/25

8:30 - 10:30am - How Things Are Made
MMCH 214
Students deconstruct a product to understand the complexities of mass manufacturing to recommend improved designs for manufacture and assembly. 

11:30am - 12:30pm - Design for Aging
MMCH 107
Please join us for an exhibition of nine short projects that students used to understand and explore topics within the mini course on Design for Aging!

2:00 - 3:50pm - UX Research & Design
MMCH 203
Interdisciplinary teams apply human-centered research methods to discover new opportunities for: community engagement, off-campus student experiences, re-envisioning campus spaces, personal museum curation, and adulting methods. 

Monday 12/8/25

11:30am - 12:30pm - Printmaking & Calligraphy
MMCH 203

12:00 - 1:30pm - Designing Data
MMCH 121

1:00 - 2:00pm - Narratives in Space and Time
MMCH 107
Come celebrate the creativity and growth of NINS/T students, who have expanded their artistic and technical toolkits through six sprints.

Tuesday 12/9/25

11:30am - 1:00pm - Junior Communications Studio
MMCH 214

12:00 - 1:30pm - Junior Products Studio
MMCH 211

12:30 - 1:30pm - Junior Environments Studio
MMCH213

12:30 - 2:00pm - MDes/MPS Communication Design Theory and Practice
MMCH 215
Four students will share their data visualization stories that focus on contemporary topics for people to explore at their own pace in a science fair format, with work changing every 30 minutes.

2:00 - 5:00pm - Senior Studio
MMCH 112 - 115

4:00 - 6:00pm - Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion Reception
MMCH 121
Join the Center for Design Fusion in a gathering celebrating past participants of the Design Fusion Certificate Program.  Hear from participants how design-thinking has impacted their roles in their departments.

Thursday 12/11/25

9:30 - 10:30am - Eco-Kindness with the Children's School
MMCH 127
You’re invited to play a collection of learning games co-created by the outstanding first-year design students and students from the Children’s School—all about eco-kindness, local species, and tiny creatures with big jobs in our ecosystems.
Drop in to meet a whole cast of bats, fireflies, butterflies, fungi, salamanders, and more. These games invite you to move, build, collaborate, and laugh while learning how our everyday choices impact local habitats.

9:30 - 11:00am - Sophomore Environments Studio
MMCH 203

10:00 - 11:30am - Sophomore Products Studio
MMCH 212

10:30am - 12:00pm - Sophomore Communications Studio
MMCH 107
Letters move. Hierarchies speak. Type comes alive.
The sophomore communication design class invites you to witness what happens when typography refuses to sit still.
Experience typographic hierarchy posters that command attention, kinetic type videos that dance across screens, and interactive specimens that beg to be touched. From print to pixel, our work proves that the alphabet is just the beginning.

12:00 - 2:00pm - First Year Showcase
MMCH 127

2:00 - 5:00pm - MDes I - Interaction Design Studio (IxD)
MMCH 215
Students share team-based projects addressing contemporary issues facing society, with presentations and demos of their projects on self-selected topics of upper limb home rehabilitation, women's sexual and reproductive health, mindful use of social media, and conflict navigation in cohabitation.

Friday 12/12/25

11:00am - 12:00pm - MDes II In Progress Reviews and Posters Presentations
MMCH 215
MDes II students will share posters highlighting their thesis process and early-stage ideas. This public showcase celebrates the range of work across the cohort. Students will be on hand to discuss their projects, gather practical feedback, explore potential collaborations, and identify next steps as they move into the spring semester. Please stop by!

Design Week logo designed by Stacy Chen (BDes '25)