Erika Allen: Lucas J. Daniel Lecture in Sustainable Systems

At the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech, we look at the world in new ways to create the change we hope to see in it.Since our founding by Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy in 1937, we’ve continually turned design into a powerful tool anyone can use to transform the systems that shape our lives—from cities, education, and finance to food, healthcare, and technology.We’re the only US design school devoted completely to graduate students, and the first to offer a PhD. Uniting science and rigor with creativity and rapid iteration, we’re recognized around the globe as pioneers in human-centered design, systems design, and other methods that apply design to the real world.It’s through these unique approaches that students, communities, and corporations learn to observe the systems they’re surrounded by—and envision the new worlds they can build from them.Here, learners and leaders discover what design makes possible. It enables us to adapt with the speed, scale, and complexity of life. To anticipate change and the impact of our actions. And, most importantly, to imagine—then create—brighter futures for us all.Learn more about ID atid.iit.edu.

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Erika Allen, co-founder and CEO of the Urban Growers Collective, discusses food systems in Chicago.

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In this fourth annual lecture, the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech invites <a href="https://urbangrowerscollective.org/team-page/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Erika Allen</a>, co-founder and CEO of the Urban Growers Collective, to discuss food systems in Chicago and beyond for Earth Month. Erika will explore food waste, circular economies, and community participatory research in her talk, which will be followed by a discussion with ID Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainability <a href="https://id.iit.edu/people/weslynne-ashton/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Weslynne Ashton</a>. The event will take place in the Steelcase space at the Kaplan Institute on Illinois Tech&#x27;s Mies Campus. Visitors to Kaplan must have proof of vaccination. The event will also be streamed. Register as a virtual attendee to receive the streaming link. About the Lucas J. Daniel Series in Sustainable SystemsThe focus of ID’s annual event in memory of ID alum Lucas J. Daniel (1974–2017) is to drive discourse in sustainability and systems design, areas Lucas was passionate about. Lucas was a 2005 IIT Institute of Design (ID) graduate who spent 11 years at Chicago design and innovation consultancy gravitytank. There he applied holistic, systems-level thinking to food innovation. <a href="https://id.iit.edu/lucas-j-daniel-series-in-sustainable-systems/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Learn more about the series</a>. About the Institute of Design (ID)The Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech was founded in Chicago by Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy in 1937. It has since pioneered human-centered design, systems design, and a methods-based approach to design. Today ID is home to the only US design school devoted completely to graduate students—the first to offer the PhD in design. Uniting science and rigor with creativity and rapid iteration, ID focuses on the systems that shape modern life (including cities, education, finance, food, healthcare, and technology) and building new worlds from them, together. Learn more about ID at <a href="https://id.iit.edu" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">id.iit.edu</a>.

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