Professor Kristin Hughes was recently awarded a 2022 Aggie Brose Award for her incredible work at the Octopus Garden, a landmark in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Aggie Brose Awards celebrate local work that contributes to a “safe, educated, and empowered community”.

Master’s Students from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, Weijie Wang (MDes ‘23), Devika Pillai (MPS ‘22), Matt Muenzer (MPS ‘22), and Youngryun Cho (MDes ‘23), won the Gold Award at the HCII 2022 Conference for their team project, PIA. Only one project from the conference receives a Gold Award. Days after this announcement, their work also received the Notable Interaction Award from Core 77.

Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design is thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Stuart Candy and alumna Ceda Verbakel (MA '19) just received the Speculative Design Award from the Core77 Design Awards 2022. Their project, "Imagination is a Commons," examined how to use experiential futures to bring a conversation about long-range alternative pathways for global development to life for the U.N. Development Programme, who was the client for this project.

The School of Design is proud to announce all of the winners of our 2021-2022 Design Awards. These awards were announced during our Awards Show as part of Design Week from Spring 2022. The School of Design wants to congratulate all of our students for these awards and all of the hard work they put in during this school year.