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Queer Designs and Cold War Homophobia: Lessons from the Life of Bruce Goff

Jan 29, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00 PM

You will not find much about Bruce Goff in histories of architecture or design. At most, he was called “eccentric”, a characterization he shared with Frank Lloyd Wright, who also experienced his share of marginalization. Practicing after World War II, Goff, like Wright, created architecture and interiors in the American Midwest, many for the middle class, which still stand as inventive examples of design. 

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Faculty Research Colloquium: SoftLab

Feb 5, 2025, 1:00 – 2:00 PM

The next installment of the Faculty Research Colloquium series will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 1pm. 

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Life on Earth - Gallery Exhibition & Lecture

Jan 24, 2025, 9:00 AM – Mar 14, 2025, 6:00 PM

Join us for LIFE ON EARTH, an audiovisual exploration of architecture and design's relationship with our planet, featuring David Chipperfield, Feral Atlas, Francis Kéré, Alice Rawsthorn and many more. Beatrice Galilee of The World Around and McKenna Dunbar will give an opening lecture on January 24 at 4:00 p.m. in the Forum (GDB 111). The exhibition will run from January 24 through March 14, 2025, in the Gray Design Building Gallery.

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Student Research Lunch & Learn

Jan 22, 2025, 1:00 – 2:00 PM

Join Lindsey Fay, Associate Dean for Research, to learn about College of Design research opportunities during the academic year and summer, including assistantships, fellowships, travel funds and more. Hear from current and previous graduate and undergraduate research fellows. Lunch will be provided. This event is open to all CoD students. 

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PRD student’s startup one of Von Allmen Center’s Bootcamp winners

Haley Simpkins Jan 9, 2025

The Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship (VACE) in the Gatton College of Business and Economics recently announced the winning startups from the Fall 2024 Bootcamp 1.0 online Business Accelerator. Entrepreneurs from across The University of Kentucky campus and the Lexington community represented their startups in an online pitch competition, with nine winning startups taking home prize money. Product design senior Austin Hirtzel and his startup TriStacker won $1,000 as part of the competition.   

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2025 Design Career Fair

Feb 28, 2025, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

The 2025 Design Career Fair returns to the Gatton Student Center on Friday, February 28 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The annual event, to be held in the student center's Grand Ballroom and Social Staircase area, marks the seventh career fair for the College of Design, and the third in partnership with the Department of Landscape Architecture.

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Employers: Register for the 2025 Design Career Fair

Haley Simpkins Dec 12, 2024

Employer registration is open for the University of Kentucky's 

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Pattern + Surface + Skin - Spring 2025 Elective

Dec 6, 2024

Nature serves as an inspiration for many architects who translate its qualities through organizational strategies, biomimicry, evolutionary modeling, and patterns to name a few. In this course students will conduct research through a series of precedent studies where nature serves as an inspiration for the design. After these initial explorations, students will take what was learned collectively and apply this knowledge to research exploring “species or natural occurring systems native to the state of Kentucky.” 

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CoD hosts alums for “Successful Careers in Design” speaker series

Haley Simpkins Dec 6, 2024

Earlier this week the College of Design’s sections of UK 101 and UK 201 welcomed four alumni to share their professional journey with students in a lunch-and-learn-style speaker series titled “Successful Careers in Design”.   UK 101 and UK 201 courses are designed to be an introductory course for first year and transfer students, focused on skill building, finding community and career exploration. In college-specific sections of the course, instructors have the discretion to add content tailored to majors, career interests and student requests.

Installed in the Gray Design Building’s Maker Yard, “Falling Color” is a vibrant homage to the concealed creek running underfoot and the historical layers of Lexington that lie beneath the surface. Photo by Haley Simpkins.

UK College of Design, College of Fine Arts art installation pays tribute to campus landscape

Haley Simpkins Nov 21, 2024

The University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts and University of Kentucky College of Design have joined forces to unveil “Falling Color.” Installed in the Gray Design Building’s Maker Yard, “Falling Color” is a vibrant homage to the concealed creek running underfoot and the historical layers of Lexington that lie beneath the surface.

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