Design Week Schedule - Spring 2026

It's Design Week for Spring 2026!  Design Week is when we celebrate an entire semester's worth of our students' work, with a full week of shows, presentations, displays, and open studios.  Please join us and see what the future of design looks like!

Unless otherwise noted, all events are open to the public.
MMCH = Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall

Friday 4/24/26

5:00pm - 8:00pm - Everything Must Go - The Class of 2026 Senior Show
Rockwell Park, Edwin Building
7514 Thomas Blvd., 15208
Everything Must Go is the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design Class of 2026’s collective senior show. It is a culmination of four years of work across three disciplines in design from 36 designers, represented through hundreds of projects.

Monday 4/27/26

10:00am - 11:00am - You Are Here
MMCH 203
Come see the work of 15 designers as they learned about the theory and practice of signage and wayfinding, type design, and event identity development.

12:00pm - 2:00pm - Designing for Social Innovation
MMCH 121

1:00pm - 3:00pm - Printmaking & Letterforms
MMCH 203

4:00pm - 6:00pm - Designing Experiences for Learning
MMCH 215
Come chat with the students about the learning experiences that they designed and check out their demos! Project teams focused on fostering creative thinking, improvement community communication, strengthening critical thinking, and boosting agency in career planning!

Tuesday 4/28/26

10:00am - 12:00pm - Design Fusion Electives
MMCH 121
Showcases from the electives offered by the Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Power
MMCH 107

1:00pm - 3:00pm - Junior Environments Studio
MMCH 213

1:30pm - 3:30pm - Junior Products Studio
MMCH 214
Please join the Junior Product Studio in an exhibition of their two products, which accomplish similar goals through different means.

2:00pm - 4:00pm - Junior Communications Studio
MMCH 210 - 211

Wednesday 4/29/26

9:00am - 11:30am - MA Studio II: Introduction to Interaction Design
MMCH 215
See final presentations for Project 3: "Beyond the Screen;" plus highlights of Project 1: "Design a Control" and Project 2: "Mobile UI/UX" 

12:00pm - 1:30pm - The School of Design Student Awards Ceremony
MMCH 103 (Breed Hall)

2:00pm - 5:00pm - MPS/MDES Studio II Research-based Design for Interactions + Research Methods for Design
MMCH 215 & 127
Join us for four sequential team presentations of projects designed for the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (approximately 2-4 PM, MM 215), followed by interactive prototype demos (approximately 4-5 PM, MM 127)

Thursday 4/30/26

11:00am - 12:30pm - Sophomore Communications Studio
MMCH 107

10:00am - 12:00pm - Sophomore Products Studio
MMCH 212
The studio presents work by sophomore product design students across three projects: a tripod table exploring structure and material, an alarm system focused on interaction, and soft products responding to user needs.

10:00am - 12:30pm - Sophomore Environments Studio
MMCH 213

1:00pm - 3:00pm - First Year Studio Showcase
MMCH A6

1:30pm - 2:30pm - Design for Digital Systems
MMCH 215
Join us for a mix of individual and team-based projects as students showcase functional and speculative prototypes of digital systems.

3:30pm - 4:30pm - MA Prototyping for Interaction Design 
MMCH 215
Join the MA cohort for the final exhibition of the semester's projects: mobile configurator prototypes, laser cut light prototypes, and self-directed iterative prototyping project.

5:00pm - 8:00pm - Object-Based Histories
Carnegie Museum of Art

Friday 5/1/26

9:00am- 2:00pm - MDes II Thesis Presentations & Exhibitions
MMCH 215-216
9:00am - 12:00pm - Presentations
1:00pm - 2:00pm - Exhibitions

2:00pm - 4:00pm - Designing with CARE: Co-Creating Solutions for Complex Care Coordination in Oncology
Magee Women's Hospital
Room 2131

Spring Design Week logo by Stacy Chen (BDes '26)