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Spring 2026 Product Design Electives

Oct 20, 2025
College of Design, Product Design

The Department of Product Design's Spring 2026 elective offerings explore the development of educational toys and communication with AI tools for design. Full course details are listed below. Register Now

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Spring 2026 Interiors Electives

Oct 20, 2025
College of Design, Interiors

The School of Interiors' Spring 2026 electives invite students to engage with a range of topics, from understanding how spaces influence human experience to exploring biomimicry, housing, universal design, and the power of pattern and form. These courses invite students from all disciplines to think critically and creatively about we experience and interact with the built environment. Full course details are listed below.   Register Now

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Spring 2026 Architecture Electives

Oct 20, 2025
Architecture, College of Design

The School of Architecture’s Spring 2026 electives invite students to engage with a range of topics, from digital visualization, detailing, and fabrication to housing development, material reuse, and urban design. These courses are designed to encourage critical thinking and hands-on experimentation across scales, materials, and methods. Full course details are listed below. Register Now  

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UK College of Design honors 2025 Lyman T. Johnson awardees

Meredith Weber
 Oct 20, 2025
Alumni, Architecture, College of Design, University of Kentucky

The  University of Kentucky College of Design honored its 2025 Lyman T. Johnson awardees during the 34th annual Lyman T. Johnson Awards Luncheon on Friday, Oct. 17. 

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Design Symposium Undercommoning The Urban Campus

Nov 3, 2025, 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Architecture, College of Design, University of Kentucky

The Undercommoning the Urban Campus Symposium brings together scholars from art, architecture, public history, and urbanism to examine the histories, reckonings, and futures of the modern urban university. Exploring themes such as campus as “UniverCity,” monumentality, and town–gown relations, the symposium creates a forum for dialogue across disciplines. Open to all, it will be of special interest to students and faculty in design, social sciences, and cultural studies.

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Fugate appointed as KY Housing Corporation-Groves Endowed Professor

Haley Simpkins
 Oct 15, 2025
Architecture, College of Design, Research

Jeff Fugate, associate professor of extension in the University of Kentucky School of Architecture, has been named the Kentucky Housing Corporation-John Russell Groves Endowed Professor of Housing. The professorship was established in 2002 to promote research into affordable housing design and delivery.

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Design Lecture Series Florian Idenburg

Oct 17, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Architecture, College of Design

Join us for a lecture on Friday, October 17 with Florian Idenburg, co-founder of the New York architectural design firm SO–IL. 

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Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture Book Talk with Todd Gannon

Oct 13, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Architecture, College of Design

Join us for a talk by Todd Gannon, author and professor of architecture at Ohio State University, as he discusses his recent book Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture. 

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HMN 300 Info Session: Sustainable Futures Design Lab Course

Oct 10, 2025, 12:00 – 12:30 PM
College of Design

Study design and sustainability while traveling from the mountains of Kentucky to the cultural centers of France. HMN 300: Sustainable Futures Design Lab is a project-based course from the Gaines Center for the Humanities. This immersive class explores design and sustainability in post-mining communities and takes that work far beyond the classroom. This course for creative, collaborative thinkers ready to engage in hands-on design projects. 

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Innovation on wheels: Stratasys 3D-printing truck to visit campus

Haley Simpkins
 Oct 1, 2025
College of Design, Research, University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky College of Design invites the community to visit the Stratasys 3D Printing Truck 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the Gray Design Building. This mobile showroom will provide a hands-on opportunity to explore how 3D printing is shaping the future of design, manufacturing and problem-solving across a variety of fields. 

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