We hope you can join us for an evening of learning and networking in New York with design colleagues and corporate partners, and catching up on the latest ID news with faculty and students. Please RSVP by Monday, February 8th.

Location Monitor Group, 140 Broadway, New York, NY

recruitID is a forum for design and business professionals to meet students from the Institute of Design and discuss methods, offerings, innovation planning and employment opportunities. A resume book is available for download. Please see the site listed at right for resumes, scheduling and registration details.

Location IIT Institute of Design, 350 North LaSalle St, Chicago

We are excited to announce the IIT Institute of Design's 9th Annual Design Research Conference (DRC) on May 10-12th 2010.

The 2010 DRC will be held at the Spertus Institute in downtown Chicago. It will feature exceptional international speakers and opportunities to spend time with our brilliant community of designers, planners, researchers, educators, students, managers and executives concerned with understanding people.

conference web site: www.designresearchconference.com

Location Spertus Institute, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

Design Summer Camp at the IIT Institute of Design is a program offering a week-long, engaging and intensive deep-dive into the latest methods of design and design-thinking taught in our graduate programs.

Location IIT Institute of Design, 350 North LaSalle St, Chicago

Design Summer Camp at the IIT Institute of Design is a program offering a week-long, engaging and intensive deep-dive into the latest methods of design and design-thinking taught in our graduate programs.

Location IIT Institute of Design, 350 North LaSalle St, Chicago

The Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Design & Emotion Society are pleased to invite you to participate in the 7th International Conference on Design & Emotion in Chicago, October 4-7.

conference web site: www.id.iit.edu/de2010/

The International Conference on Design & Emotion is a forum held every other year where practitioners, researchers and industry leaders meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion. The conference will offer workshops, research paper presentations, design case presentations, and poster presentations. The conference language is English.

Since this conference was first established in 1999, what many predicted then came to be. Technologies are now able to achieve emotional qualities and design examples using these technologies abound. While we have made significant progress in research and practice relevant to emotional factors in design, many fundamental questions remain unanswered and new issues have been raised as we experience major changes in technological, social, cultural and economic environments. We are at the stage for another leap forward in the development of new understanding and vision of emotional factors in design through our critical reflection, innovative exploration and collaborative endeavor. This conference calls for your contribution to this exciting international forum of research and practice representing academic, professional and business communities.

Location Chicago

Learn more about whether ID's graduate programs are right for you. The program will include break out sessions with students, faculty and alumni about life at ID; examples of current student work; guided tours of the facilities; a mock class; one-on-ones with faculty; and the chance to get answers to questions about admissions and curricula.

Location IIT Institute of Design, 350 North LaSalle St, Chicago

The Diabetes Innovation Fair presents design innovation proposals from three fall semester Institute of Design courses: Platform Strategy, Persuasive Technology, and Wellness Experience. For each presentation, we welcome feedback and open dialogue for taking our common concerns to address diabetes and obesity into action for trsnsformative behavioral and social change.

Location 350 N LaSalle St, Chicago, Room 201

This talk highlights the objectives, process, people, and outcomes associated with producing futuristic vision demos for Microsoft. Included are examples of some of the work the Microsoft Strategic Prototyping team has produced over the past two years, focusing on domains that include Healthcare in Developed and Developing Regions, Education, the Visual Internet, architecturally embedded computing, and computing in the home. Introduction by Anijo Mathew.

Location 350 N LaSalle Street, Chicago

Toyota's Tetuya Kaida on Changing Global Creative and Conceptual Trends
October 15, 3 PM
350 N LaSalle St, 2nd Floor

Does building cars out of seaweed sound out of this world? Not necessarily so to Tetsuya Kaida, founder and general manager of TMC's BR Corporate Value Creation Department.

He will talk about how Toyota is adapting to changing global trends in lifestyles, values, cultures, and emotions.

Kaida, who is known for integrating philosophical ideas into conceptual work and, finally, into actual design, heads a department that operates as an internal business strategy consultancy within TMC and has recentely opened a "concierge desk" for internal engineers and TMC creators aiming to do more than the usual "good job".

Kaida created the Business Revolution Corporate Value Project Department in January 2007 after working for Toyota for nearly 25 years in several divisions, including service, marketing development, and product planning.

Kaida has argued for designing kinder, gentler cars inspired by Japanese culture and its emphasis on harmony with nature. In keeping with that philosophy, Toyota has come out with concept cars with transparent floors, huge windows and doors that slide like Japanese "shoji'' screens, and a version of the Prius made with a lighter material called carbon fiber reinforced plastic.

Introduction by Shin Sano.

Location 3pm, 350 N LaSalle Street, 2nd floor

Based on his research on globalization and the advertising business in India, William Mazzarella addresses the question of whether advertising responds to existing cultural differences and consumer needs or whether it produces them.

Dr Mazzarella is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India (Duke, 2003) and the co-editor (with Raminder Kaur) of Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation From Sedition to Seduction (Indiana, 2009). He is currently working on a book project tentativelytitled The Censor's Fist: Affect, Cinema and Mediation in Modern India.

Introduction by ID professor Anijo Mathew.

Location 350 N LaSalle Street, 2nd floor, 12:15pm

Anne Marie Kanstrup, Aalborg University

Anne-Marie will talk about the Maxi Project, an innovative 3-year health and technology participatory design research project with Danish families in which one or more family members lives with diabetes, with funding from NovoNordisk A/S among other sponsors.

More about Anne Marie Kanstrup, eLL: center for user-driven innovation, learning and design
http://wiki.hum.aau.dk/index.php/Kanstrup
http://www.ell.aau.dk/Anne-Marie-Kanstrup.112.0.html

Anne Marie Kanstrup is primary research colleague of Judith Gregory, Institute of Design, in her Honorary Professorship (2009-2014) in Human-Centered Communication and Information, Department of Communication, eLL: center for user-driven innovation, learning and design and Department of Development and Planning. This offers possibilities for international and transdisciplinary research collaboration.

Introduction by Judith Gregory.

Location 12:15pm, 350 N LaSalle Street, Room 201, Chicago

A special guest lecture by Jacob Buur on 'Participatory Innovation & Designing with Video', Friday August 28, 12:15-2:00, at the Institute of Design, Room 201. Jacob is renowned for his life's work in these areas and co-author of the new book 'Designing with Video - Focusing the User-Centered Design Process.' More about Jacob Buur is provided below.

Jacob Buur is professor of User-Centred Design at the Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, and research director of the SPIRE strategic research centre. SPIRE aims to establish the theoretical foundation for 'Participatory Innovation' - a new approach to user-driven innovation. SPIRE is cross-disciplinary, uniting researchers from design-antropology, interaction design, interaction analysis, business, innovation management and collaborates with the theatre company Dacapo and Danish and international industries.



SPIRE - Participation Innovation
Book - Designing with Video

Location 350 North LaSalle Street, Room 201, Chicago

"Progressive Inclusive Design: From Eyeglasses to Artificial Hearts"
Kazuo Kawasaki is a well known designer for a wide range of products and systems ranging from eyeglasses to artificial organs. His research area at Osaka University is primarily on medical systems but he also addresses social issues such as peace, inclusiveness and sustainability.

Press coverage in Chicago's Skyline News.

Location 350 North LaSalle Street, 2nd floor

Hosted in partnership with the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the 2009 Innovation Summit will bring together influential innovation experts, business executives, academics and government leaders to discuss innovation and accelerate Chicagoland's development as a globally recognized center for innovation. The Summit is a full day of innovation education, tools, case studies, demonstrations, and networking. Now in its third year, the summit will continue to focus on creating and sustaining an innovation culture and establishing recognition of the region for leading the innovation imperative on a global scale.

The summit represents a new collaboration between Illinois Institute of Technology Institute of Design and InnovateNow, the CCCF's innovation initative.

New: Bruce Nussbaum's favorite quotes from the summit via his BusinessWeek blog.

Location Spertus Institute, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

Free and open to the public

schedule
6:30pm Open Remarks
7:30pm Student pecha kucha
8:30pm Project Prototype

Location 350 N LaSalle Street, Chicago

AdmitID is two days of events where newly admitted students and prospective students will have an opportunity to tour the school, sit in on classes, meet other newly admitted students, and speak with current students, faculty and staff, and alumni. Two faculty will also give brief talks at each of the events below, highlighting ID's point of view and role in the design and innovation profession.

Location 350 N LaSalle Street, Chicago

A pair of lectures related to the 7th International Design & Emotions Conference, to be held October 4-7, 2010 in Chicago, organized by the Design & Emotions Society & the IIT Institute of Design. See http://www.designandemotion.org/. Moderated by Judith Gregory.

Desmet and Ludden lecture on Design For Emotion from IIT Institute of Design on Vimeo.

Location 350 N LaSalle Street, Chicago

This workshop will help interaction designers learn to “thinker” through tinkering with physical computing artifacts. The idea is to bring together talented individuals from the realm of interaction design, introduce them to new concepts/artifacts in the realm of physical computing, and allow them to put the two together. Most importantly, it will be an opportunity for interaction designers to get their hands dirty with electronics, soldering, and wiring, and learn how to interface hardware artifacts with virtual interactions. Each participant will receive a customized interactive hardware kit to work with and take home.

Location Institute of Design, 350 N LaSalle St, 2nd Flr

Join us for a night of old friends, new books and memorable conversations. Jump Associates founder Dev Patnaik will join ID Dean Patrick Whitney to discuss empathy, design, and the future of business. This is the official Chicago launch of Dev's new book, written with Pete Mortenson, Wired To Care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy.

Thursday March 12, 2009
6:00pm to 7:30pm - book discussion, 2nd floor
7:30pm to 9:00pm - reception and signing, 6th floor

Space is limited; please RSVP by March 9th to chicagolaunch AT wiredtocare.com

We hope to see you there!

Location 6pm-9pm, 350 North LaSalle Street, Chicago

We have unprecedented knowledge about production systems, supply chains and business models, which has enabled us to produce products and information of incredible variety, leading to unprecedented consumer choice. Ironically, this leaves corporate executives in the dilemma of knowing *how* to make anything while not being sure of what to make. Companies have exhausted processes like Six Sigma, TQM and others, and now find that the best - and sometimes only - growth opportunities are found on the fuzzy path of innovation. Enter design. Design helps remove the risk of innovation by adding insights about people's daily life to an organization's knowledge of technology and business.

Location ECCO Design, 900 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York

The third informal gathering of the Chicago alumni network went down at The Bluebird, a stylish gastropub in the ever-hip Wicker Park neighborhood. About 15 alumni attended (we were having too much fun to do a formal head count), including a few undergrads from the olden days way back in the mid-90s. Special thanks to Guy Suesuntitook for organizing. view photos

Location The Bluebird, Wicker Park

The second annual ID-sponsored Bay Area Alumni Reception was on the rooftop of the Hotel Vitale in San Francisco, right in front of the Ferry Building and with impressive views over the bay. ID alumni, students, staff, and prospects mingled and reunited, while fighting the cold by visiting the open bar frequently. Thanks all of you that managed to make it to the gathering and for those of you who couldn’t, you can still catch each other in one of the ID cocktail hours the locals organize every 6 weeks or so. Stay tuned on the SF Bay alumni blog.

Location The Hotel Vitale, San Francisco

We have charted the planet and are mapping the human genome, but what of the ever-expanding universe of ideas? How is information about the way we live, work and play shared with the rest of the world?

Location 5:00pm, 350 N LaSalle Street, 2nd floor, Chicago

A few intrepid Chicago alumni gathered for drinks and a late dinner in the South Loop, in honor of the Southsiders amongst us.

Coming up before Labor Day: alumni backyard barbecue!

Pictured are (left to right) Frank Gruger (B.S. 99), Melody Roberts (M.Des. 98), Sheila Foley (M.Des. 98) and Alon Friedman (M.Des. 01).

Location Tantrum bar

Global businesses increasingly appreciate how design and design thinking can provide them with high-level, strategic value and competitive advantage. In an intensely competitive market, with ever more diverse and demanding customers, executives are often left unsure of exactly what products, communications and services to create for what segments of the market. Design, with its ability to understand users, redefine problems and create systemic, human-centered solutions, can help companies better understand their customer's daily lives, and lead directly to valuable (and valued) offerings that are effectively tailored to their market.
Now in its fourth year, the Institute of Design Strategy Conference continues to work to build a stronger bridge between design and business strategy.

Location Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Don Norman is a Professor at Northwestern University, co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, and former Vice President of Apple Computer. He serves on many advisory boards, including Encyclopedia Britannica and the Industrial design department of KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He was awarded the Benjamin Franklin medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. He has honorary degrees from the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical University Delft (the Netherlands) and is the author of “The Design of Everyday Things” and “Emotional Design.” His newest book, “The Design of Future Things,” discusses the role that automation plays in our everyday lives. He lives at www.jnd.org.

This special guest lecture was made possible by the great leadership of the IDSAB (the ID Student Activities Board).

Don Norman on the Design of Future Things, April 2008 from IIT Institute of Design on Vimeo.

Transcript: Design for Service has helpfully posted a great transcript of this talk.

Location 350 N LaSalle Street, Chicago

As part of a tri-national colloquium on healthcare management at the IIT business school, two teams of ID students presented their work from Fall 2007.

Videos:

The Lived Experience of Sandwiched Caregiver Families, Dec 2007 from IIT Institute of Design on Vimeo.

Rethinking - DesignThinking - Healthcare presentations, Dec 2007 from IIT Institute of Design on Vimeo.

Slides alone:
Lived Experience of Sandwiched Caregiver Families
Rethinking-DesignThinking-Healthcare

Location IIT Stuart School of Business, Chicago

Larry Keeley is director of Doblin Inc., a Monitor company, and an Institute of Design adjunct faculty member and board member. He has presented this keynote on convergences in health recently at Harvard Business School and at the Mayo conference on transformations in health.

This special event is part of the new ID initiative 'Rethinking Health' made possibly by a generous personal gift from Robert Pew, Chairman of the Board, Steelcase Corporation and Chairman, ID Board of Overseers.

Larry Keeley on Convergences in Healthcare, Feb 2008 from IIT Institute of Design on Vimeo.

Or, download just the slides (4MB pdf).

Location IIT Institute of Design

The Design for the New China Markets Conference is an executive forum hosted by the IIT Institute of Design and the State Intellectual Property Office, People's Republic of China. It is intended for leaders interested in the design and development of products and services for China.

Location Peninsula Hotel, Beijing