Thurs, September 26, 2024, 6–9:00pm
Chicago History Museum, 1601 N Clark St

Sat, May 4, 2024, 1–4:00pm
South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S Michigan Ave

Thurs, November 30, 2023, 6–8:00pm
DMoC, 72 E Randolph

Weds, August 16, 2023, 6–8:30pm
Stone Temple Baptist Church, 3622 W Douglas

Tues, July 25, 2023, 6–8:30pm
DMoC, 72 E Randolph

May 11, 2023, 6–8pm
Rebuilding Exchange, 1740 West Webster Avenue

April 11, 2023, 6–8pm
Design Museum of Chicago, 72 E Randolph Street

March 20, 2023, 6–8pm
Bronzeville Winery 4420 South Cottage Grove Avenue Chicago, IL 60653

AIGA Chicago and the Design Museum of Chicago present a conversation on Why Design Matters with Debbie Millman and Tanner Woodford.

Chicago Collections Consortium is proud to partner with the Design Museum of Chicago with the program, A Discussion with Chicago's Cultural Changemakers.

Authors Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino will discuss their new book Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975.

Raising Products is a virtual series on art, design, and communities of color. It is about making and unmaking.

Join Design Museum of Chicago and blkHaUs studios for the third and final event of Raising Products, an ongoing discussion between scholars, artists, and designers.

Raising Products is a virtual series on art, design, and communities of color. It is about making and unmaking.

Raising Products is a virtual series on art, design, and communities of color. It is about making and unmaking.

The Design Museum of Chicago is pleased to introduce an event series that brings prolific artists and designers from different fields together in conversation. This conversation is between Bill Bartolotta, Carrie Kennedy, and Bruce Mau, and will be moderated by Stratton Cherouny.

Design Museum Presents a screening of Obstacle Course, a new video play written by Jamil Khoury, Founding Artistic Director of Silk Road Rising.

Join us on October 17 to hear Mark Larson, author of Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater explore stage setting, lighting and sound design with four prominent Chicago designers: Jared Gooding, Rob Milburn, Linda Buchanan, and Regina Garcia.

Join us at 6 pm on Thursday, 2/7 to hear from a variety of organizations, including Envision Unlimited, TPAN, and Romina N. Castillo, Community Planner at Muse Community + Design, and Vision Zero Consultant at the Chicago Department of Transportation, about their work and impact.

Hear from panelists from FrankenToyMobile, West Town Bikes, Bikes ‘n Roses, The Recyclery, and Mobile Street Art Cart Project about how Chicagoans are using bicycles to make change and empower people locally and globally.

Join Petra Slinkard, Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Peabody Essex Museum, in conversation with Lauren Boegen, Curator of Keep Moving: Designing Chicago’s Bicycle Culture and Design Museum of Chicago’s Executive Director of Operations and Collections, in conversation as they discuss the history, fashion and evolution of style associated with bike culture.

What defines urban cycling in Chicago in 2018? Join panelists from Streetsblog, CDOT, Active Transportation Alliance, and West Town Bikes to discuss the personal and civic impacts of bikes, modernity, and the urban landscape.

Henry David Thoreau once said, “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” At the intersection of public art and public spaces, are progressive designers, artists, and real estate developers. The result is creative output that enhances communities. How do these projects start? Where do ideas come from? And how are collaborations coming together?

As part of the Terra Foundation’s Art Design Chicago Storytelling Series, Chicago Design Museum Executive Director of Operations and Collections Lauren Boegen talks with designer Jonathan Solomon about the historic Great Ideas series and its impact today.

Cartoonist Klaus, architect Stewart Hicks, and game developer William Chyr will present on Wednesday, February 14, as part of MAS Context’s 2018 Spring Talks series.

Robert Lzicar and Davide Fornari will be in the U.S. for a multi-stop tour to present their co-edited book, Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland. Lzicar and Fornari will do a short presentation on the book, followed by a panel discussion about the relationship between Swiss and American design. Doors will open at 5:30 pm.

Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland features eleven selected essays on the mediation and consumption of graphic design artifacts and processes by authors from the German, French, and Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland. Published by Triest Verlag.

Confrontations is reading and discussion series curated by Dgenerator and hosted by ChiDM. Each iteration features a set of interrelated readings which exist in dialogue with each other.

Openbox will be joined by Juanita Irizarry, Executive Director of Friends of the Parks and Jonathan Pereira of Plant Chicago, representing policy, media, the arts, urban planning, and more to explore a variety of “Designing for Good” topics.