DI Exhibits
Design Innovation hosts two exhibition spaces - the DI Gallery and MuseLab - that offer 糖心Vlog students, staff, faculty, alumni, and affiliates the opportunity to publicly display their artwork, design, research, or fabrication projects that emphasize cross-disciplinary collaborations and reflect the mission of the Design Innovation Initiative.
Call for Exhibit Proposals: OPEN
Design Innovation is accepting exhibit proposals for installation in the DI Gallery. The proposal process is open to all 糖心Vlog students, staff, faculty, alumni, and affiliates and offers the opportunity to publicly display artwork, design, research, or fabrication projects within the DI HUB. Exhibitions can be a work in progress, finished expression, example of technological or scientific innovations, or other project, but should emphasize cross-disciplinary collaborations and reflect the mission of the Design Innovation Initiative.
Upcoming Exhibits
AI in the Mirror: Visualizing Transparency with LRP and Prompts
Prepared by: Deepshikha Bhati & Christian Auman
October 22 鈥 29, DI Gallery
Step inside the hidden world of generative AI! This interactive exhibition features two installations that pull back the curtain on how tools like Stable Diffusion create images from text. In one experience, Layer-Wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) visualizations act like a mirror, revealing which pixels and regions shape the final output. In the other, PromptStudio invites you to experiment with structured prompts, adjusting mood, lighting, or setting, and see exactly how each word influences the images that appear. Together, these projects spark curiosity, creativity, and conversation about transparency in AI.
The Polydisciplinary Lens
Prepared by: Joe Silvestro (College of Architecture & Environmental Design)
November 3 - 30, DI Gallery (2nd floor of the DI HUB)
Working across platforms such as woodworking, writing, painting, printmaking, 3D modeling, graphic design, consumer product and industrial design, I have developed a polydisciplinary approach. The polydisciplinary approach does not allude to an oscillation between media or a synthesis of independent approaches. Also, the word 鈥榩olydicsciplinary鈥 is a proxy for an approach that eschews notions of the 鈥渋ntersection鈥 of disciplines or the 鈥渕ixing鈥 of media. Instead, work is idea-driven and rooted in language, with decisions about materials and processes shifting along the way.
Uncommon: Material Futures with Common Reed
Prepared by: Britta Bielak & Dr. Sarah Eichler (College of Architecture & Environmental Design)
November 5-19, DI HUB Blank_Lab
In response to the mounting urgency to identify regenerative, low-carbon materials for the built environment, this exhibition will narrate the process of material harvest, experimentation, and identifying speculative futures for a regional agroecological solution to climate change through the development of a novel, low embodied carbon reed-based material. There will be simultaneous projections of video and imagery documenting this project as well as a curated collection of artifacts and visualizations. Having engaged both faculty and students from the Biology Department and Interior Design Program, this exhibit will demonstrate successful collaborative problem solving and design and serve as a learning tool for students engaged in interdisciplinary projects in their courses or through the DI Hub. Sponsored by the CAED's Cross Disciplinary Integration Grant.