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Opening September 18 After the Plan: An Exhibition by Clarissa Tossin

The College of Design Gallery invites you to attend the opening of After the Plan, an exhibition of two immersive, two-channel video works by Brazilian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Clarissa Tossin. Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan connects two Ford company towns built in 1935 — one in the Brazilian Amazon and one in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — through their shared histories of planned architecture, resource extraction, and industrial production.

College of Design, HDI launch graduate certificate in universal design

The University of Kentucky College of Design is launching a new graduate certificate in Universal Design through a partnership with the UK Human Development Institute (HDI).

Guest Lecture R.C. May Photography Lecture Series: Clarissa Tossin

The UK College of Design is proud to be a co-sponsor of UK College of Fine Arts' R.C. May Photography Lecture with artist Clarissa Tossin.

Tabling Event Design Student Organizations

Explore the clubs, organizations and leadership opportunities available. Representatives from each student org will be on hand to share information about upcoming events, membership opportunities and how you can get involved this semester.

Art, Ecology and Collective Practices Altered States Symposium

The University of Kentucky College of Design, in partnership with Great Meadows Foundation, will host "Altered States: Art, Ecology, and Collective Practices," a symposium on collaborative environmental and community-based art, Sept. 18 at the Gray Design Building.

UK student-designed emergency housing finds permanent home

Anyone who has passed the University of Kentucky’s Gray Design Building in the last year may remember the small wooden structure stationed out front. The full-scale, modular emergency housing prototype — created through the UK College of Design’s design-build studio — has occupied the loading dock for more than three semesters.

Design-build partnership in Eastern Kentucky expands river access, reimagines historic site

In Eastern Kentucky, design is doing more than shaping spaces. It is strengthening connections, honoring history and helping communities chart a path forward.   

Patrick Lee Lucas: 2026-27 University Research Professor Q&A

Patrick Lee Lucas, Ph.D., professor in the School of Interiors in the University of Kentucky’s College of Design, has been honored as a 2026-27 University Research Professor.

Spring 2026 Dean's List announced

Congratulations to the College of Design students that made the Dean's List for the Spring 2026 semester. To make a Dean’s List in one of the UK colleges, an undergraduate student must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and must have earned 12 credits or more in that semester, excluding credits earned in pass-fail classes.

UK students partner with Shaker Village to explore design, landscape and place

Students from the University of Kentucky College of Design and the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) recently shared design proposals created in partnership with Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, one of Kentucky’s most significant historic and cultural landscapes.