Schools
In an ongoing effort to map design’s evolving frontier, the ICFF annually presents a juried exhibition of student work from the world’s leading schools.
Art Center College of Design
In Item or Icon: The Chair, six graduating students in the college’s department of environment design present prototype designs that explore the essential nature of seating and attempt to answer design’s eternal question about what makes a chair a chair.
Cranbrook Academy of Art
In the interactive Time Out: Rest and Concentration in the Workplace, developed in collaboration with Herman Miller, students of the 3D design department offer six full-scale working prototypes of furniture and/or lighting elements that address the needs of the evolving workplace.
Pratt Institute
In Body and Mind, students display the paradigm-shifting results of their collaboration with Herman Miller on developing designs that manage to bridge the mind/body disjunction to increase productivity, comfort, and satisfaction.
University of Lapland
In Runko, students from across the design disciplines address challenges specific to arctic design, from materials and housing to construction, travel, wellbeing, and tourism, as part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 initiative.
The University of Tokyo
In Dialogue, students present the results of design methodologies developed in the wake of the devastating 2011 earthquake and its aftermath that focus on the role that change, expectation, action, and emotion play in the human relationship to community and environment.
Virginia Tech
In Innovative Building Skins, Industrial Processes, and Responsive Architecture, students exhibit full-scale operable prototypes of the second generation of the Eclipsis System, the technologically innovative transformable wall option that now incorporates a building control system interface.