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Graduate Composite Photos | Session 2

If you are a Spring or Summer 2025 graduate, stop by anytime between 12-1 pm to get your headshot taken for the class composite that will be displayed in the Gray Design Building. These are NOT cap and gown photos; casual dress is preferred. 

Graduate Composite Photos | Session 1

If you are a Spring 2025 graduate, stop by anytime between 12-1 pm to get your headshot taken for the class composite that will be displayed in the Gray Design Building. These are NOT cap and gown photos; casual dress is preferred. 

Lecture Series: Brian M. Kelly, AIA

 Although somewhat controversial, copy and error are unavoidable and necessary components of a contemporary design process. Sample, reference, and precedent are widely used techniques in design, and the rapid mass adoption of artificial intelligence tools has brought the copy even more into daily discussions. The current trajectory of Al is to remove error to create a tool which can be relied upon for its accuracy and predictability, but this is runs contrary to human intelligence of which it is attempting to replicate.

Eight CoD students to present research at NCUR

Seventy-one University of Kentucky students, including eight College of Design students, will present their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), April 7-9 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Advancing Kentucky Together: KayDee Pratt’s drive to design more

Virtual reality and shoes. Those are two things KayDee Pratt, a senior majoring in product design in the University of Kentucky College of Design, loves. Over the summer, she worked on two research projects — one focused on comparing product models in person versus in virtual reality, and the other focused on creating and designing shoes in virtual reality.

Window Repair Workshop at Shaker Village

The Department of Historic Preservation is holding a work weekend at Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, one of Kentucky's best known National Historic Landmarks. In this workshop, students will sand, prime, and learn how to reglaze historic wooden windows. 

Student kitchen area opens in Gray Design Building

The University of Kentucky College of Design is excited to announce the opening of a designated student kitchen area in the Gray Design Building, providing students with a space to store and prepare food while on campus.

Sustainable Design Lab to host "Inside the Lab " event series

The University of Kentucky community is invited to experience research and creative scholarship in a new and interactive way through Inside the Lab: Works in Progress, an event series showcasing innovative, transdisciplinary work happening across campus. Hosted by the Sustainable Futures Design Lab and supported by the Research Leadership Academy and the Office of the Vice President for Research, this series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the workspaces of researchers, designers, artists and scholars engaged in groundbreaking projects. 

Inside the Lab: Natural Dyeing and Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Hosted by the Sustainable Futures Design Lab and supported by the Research Leadership Academy and the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Inside the Lab event series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the workspaces of researchers, designers, artists and scholars engaged in groundbreaking projects.

Faculty Research Seminar

Join us for the next Faculty Research Seminar on Friday, March 28. Faculty and staff from the College of Design and Department of Landscape Architecture will discuss Documenting Change, a multi-year grant-funded initiative aimed at documenting and developing educational materials around the adaptive reuse of the former Reynolds Building into the Gray Design Building, CoD and LA's current home.