BSSD Events

Friday, February 27, 2026

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    Design Illinois Career Fair

    9:00 am - 6:00 pm
    Siebel Center for Design

    Make meaningful connections with peers, faculty, and industry leaders, including accomplished designers and mentors, to gain valuable insights and guidance for your future design career. Expand your network and establish relationships that will shape your future in design.

Monday, March 2, 2026

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    Shannon Mattern, Visiting Lecture, The Sustainability Stack: Cross-Scalar Design at the Library Field

    5:30 pm
    Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

    Shannon Mattern, Director of Creative Research at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, will present on the cross-disciplinary design practice through which the new Library Field project is coming into fruition. We’ll examine how myriad design fields—from traffic and water engineering, to landscape and interface design, to wayfinding and media curation—converge...

Sunday, May 17, 2026