Design Week Schedule - Spring 2025

It's Design Week for Spring 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

Friday 04/25/25

5:00 - 8:00pm - In the Making: School of Design Class of 2025 Senior Show
Rockwell Park, 7514 Thomas Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15208, USA
In the Making is the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design Class of 2025’s senior show. It is a cumulation of four years of work across three disciplines in design from 38 designers represented through over 250 projects.
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Monday 04/28/25

12:00 - 2:00pm - Printmaking & Calligraphy
MMCH203

Tuesday 04/29/25

11:00am - 1:00pm - Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion Course Exhibit
MMCH 121
An exhibition of work from Design Fusion courses: Patterns in Nature; Creative Concepting; Comics, Cybernetics and Systems of Change; and Designing for Presence

1:30 - 3:30pm - Designing Experiences for Learning
Phipps Conservatory, Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL) building
Presentations: 1:30-2:30
Hands-on Activities: 2:30-3:30
Based on an investigation of learning theories and approaches, student teams designed experiences that teach people about the environment and strengthen their stewardship for the natural world through meaningful, memorable, and enjoyable interactions with information.

1:30 - 2:30pm - Junior Communications
MMCH 213
An open house showcasing spring semester projects, including identity systems for cultural sites and multi-modal campaigns designed to persuade, provoke, and inspire action.

2:00 - 3:30pm - Junior Products
MMCH212

3:30 - 4:30pm - Junior Environments
MMCH A11
An exhibition of interactive concepts and prototypes from the spring semester.

Wednesday 04/30/25

12:00 - 1:30pm - The School of Design Student Awards Ceremony
MMCH 103, Breed Hall
Join us as we celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of our students this year.

2:00 - 5:30pm - MDes Client-Sponsored Studio
Presentation MMCH 215 from 2:00 - 4:15 pm 
Live Demo MMCH 127 from 4:20 - 5:30 pm
Join us for the MDes Client-Sponsored Studio presentation, in collaboration with Professor Bruce Hanington's Research Methods for Design. Discover and reimagine the Cultural Narratives of The Brown Farm and its real-world impact, and a live demonstration! 

Thursday 05/01/25

10:00 - 11:00am - Communications Studio II
MMCH 210/211
Posters, booklets, prototypes, videos and even some websites! Oh my! Videos will start at 10:15am.

10:00 - 11:30am - Products Studio II
MMCH 107

11:00am - 12:30pm - Environments Studio II: Designing Environments for Interaction
MMCH 127
Join us for adventures in experiential storytelling and delightful interactions. Project displays and interactive demos will rotate over the 1.5hrs.

1:00 - 3:00pm - First Year Studio
MMCH A6
Come congratulate the first years on all they accomplished this semester and see the exhibit they designed to showcase their work.

3:00 - 4:00pm - Prototyping for Interaction Design
MMCH 121
Join the MA cohort for a showcase of projects from the semester, including digital mobile prototypes, laser cut light prototypes, and independent iterative prototypes.

5:00 - 6:00pm - Design for Digital Systems
MMCH 215
Join design and non-design juniors, seniors, grads as they showcase their final project design concepts and functional prototypes.

Friday 05/02/25

10:30am - 2:30pm - Final Thesis Exhibition
MMCH 215/216
MDes II students will share the culmination of their studies at the Final Thesis Exhibition. In this event, students will be on hand to discuss their theses with you in a science fair format. Every hour, eight different students from the MDes II cohort will be available to talk with you about their work so please stop by several times or stick around for the whole event, as it will be constantly changing. We look forward to seeing you there!

2:00 - 4:00pm - Designing With CARE: Co-creating Solutions for Complex Care Coordination in Oncology
Magee Women's Hospital, Conference Rm. 2131
As we reach the culmination of our semester-long journey, we invite you to join us in celebrating the work of our students in Designing with CARE. This final review marks a moment of reflection, synthesis, and vision as teams share their solutions for the complex world of gynecological oncology care coordination.

Over the past months, students have immersed themselves in the realities of care systems—conducting primary and secondary research, participating in shadowing experiences at UPMC-Magee Women’s Hospital, and engaging with patients, providers, and caregivers. We are deeply grateful to the incredible staff at Magee for welcoming our students and setting a tone of openness, insight, and generosity that shaped the entire semester.

We’re excited to showcase the insight, creativity, and care that have shaped this work, and hope you’ll join us in celebrating their journey.