Join us to celebrate the class of 2025. Find info, watch the web stream and read about the student and faculty award winners of 2025.
Paolo Ciuccarelli works with Lexus for Milan Design Week exhibit
Paolo Ciuccarelli and his student research assistants collaborated with Lexus to create an interactive installation for Milan Design Week.
April 8, 2025
Skye Moret defends as first Interdisciplinary Design + Media PhD
On Wednesday, April 2, Skye Moret was the first person in the Interdisciplinary Design + Media PhD to defend her dissertation.
April 3, 2025
Paolo Ciuccarelli and team's project for 2025 Venice Biennale
Albert-László Barabási and Paolo Ciuccarelli are designing “Constructing the Biennale,” which will portray the past and present of Venice Biennale Architettura, the world’s preeminent gatherings of architectural minds.
March 20, 2025
Pedro Cruz collaborates on new Museum of Science exhibit
Associate professor of art + design Pedro Cruz worked with PhD candidate Adina Gitomer on a new exhibit at Boston's Museum of Science focused on network science.
March 17, 2025
A new game, RePresent, aims to make self-representation easier
Casper Hartveld, professor of game design, discusses the game "RePresent," which aims to help those who need to represent themselves in court.
March 11, 2025
Gráfica Latina explores poster design in two new exhibits
Assistant professor of art + design José Menéndez's research project, Gráfica Latina, is part of two new exhibits. The first exhibit is on display at the WaterFire Arts Center Gallery in Providence, RI.
February 28, 2025
Data Theatre Collective awarded Mellon Foundation Grant
Congratulations to the Data Theatre Collective for receiving a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. This grant falls under the Mellon Foundation's Higher Learning program.
February 10, 2025
Read the Center for Design 2024 Year in Review
This Year in Review captures the energy, the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of our projects, and the insights that shaped our 2024.
January 31, 2025
NuLawLab co-edits new book on the power of legal design
Associate professor of art + design and design director Miso Kim, creative director of NULawLab, Jules Rochelle Sievert and executive director Dan Jackson co-edited Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems.
October 31, 2024
Researchers use drones, VR to preserve African architecture
Assistant professor of architecture Killion Mokwete and Mark Sivak, teaching professor of art + design, are using virtual reality (VR) to save at-risk architecture in Benin.
October 31, 2024
This VR game wants you to take a deep breath
Take a deep breath. Feel better? PhD student Nathan Miner wanted to tap into the benefits of deep breathing for his mindfulness VR game app "Stairway to Heaven: A Gamified VR Journey for Breath Awareness."
August 2, 2024
Experience Design professor Miso Kim awarded University Excellence in Teaching honor
April 5, 2023