Design Innovation News Center
Over the past year, five Northeast Ohio artists, designers, and creative practitioners transformed the Design Innovation Hub into a laboratory for creative experimentation, public engagement, and interdisciplinary exploration.
For nineteen 91制片厂 students, the 2025鈥2026 academic year was more than a series of classes, assignments, and exams. It was an opportunity to tackle real-world challenges, collaborate across disciplines, and turn ideas into action through the John and Fonda Elliot Design Innovation Student Fellows Program.
Design Innovation is proud to announce the newest cohort of John and Fonda Elliot Design Innovation Faculty Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars, makers, and educators whose projects explore the intersections of technology, research, and human-centered problem solving.
The Design Innovation Initiative at 91制片厂 University welcomes the second cohort of the DI Creatives鈥慽n鈥慠esidence (CIR) Program for the spring 2026 semester. This program is a semester-long residency that supports visionary creatives in the 91制片厂 community and beyond working at the intersection of art, design and technology.
Isabella 鈥淏ella鈥 Rudy, a junior fashion design major with a minor in marketing, transformed nature into wearable art through an ambitious biomimicry project at the Design Innovation Hub. For her Junior Studio final project, Rudy designed an avant garde garment inspired by the King Bird of Paradise.
Kayon Hall, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Higher Education Administration program, is one of six faculty members selected to be a Summer 2025 Elliot DI Faculty Fellow.
Delonte Goodman is a graduate student in 91制片厂's College of Aeronautics and Engineering. He will complete his master's program in mechatronics in December, before moving on to his doctoral program in the spring semester. He is active in multiple student and professional organizations at 91制片厂 that enhance and complement his studies and also allow him to assist and mentor undergraduate students.
Jennifer Mapes, an assistant professor of geography at 91制片厂 University, developed an interactive mapping project that reimagines how people connect with the places they live. Using 3D printing, data visualization and storytelling, Mapes's work explores the South End neighborhood in Kent, Ohio.
Creating e-textiles is the topic of a hands-on, maker workshop and a lecture in 91制片厂 University鈥檚 DI Hub in collaboration with 91制片厂鈥檚 School of Fashion.
The Design Innovation Initiative at 91制片厂 University is excited to announce the selected participants for the inaugural cohort of the DI Creatives鈥慽n鈥慠esidence (CIR) Program, a semester-long residency that supports visionary creatives in the 91制片厂 community and beyond working at the intersection of art, design and technology.