Patrick Whitney has been awarded three MacArthur grants during the last three years to investigate the influence of digital media on learning. Join AIGA Chicago and others to hear his current thoughts and see examples about the death of advertising, the coming boom in interactive environments and the revolution about to happen in museums, schools and companies.

Patrick Whitney
Professor Patrick Whitney is the dean of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology and is the Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor of Design. Business Week calls Whitney a visionary who connects design and strategy, Forbes lists him as a member of the E-Gang due to his work on humanizing technology, and Global Entrepreneur identifies him as one of 25 people doing the most to open China to new business practices.  He is a frequent keynote speaker at design conferences including the recent ICOGRADA Congress in Beijing, and a regular speaker at policy and futures conferences such as the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, the Aspen Institute 50th anniversary, and TED.

The Institute of Design, one of seven schools of IIT, was founded by Moholy-Nagy as the New Bauhaus in 1937. It is a community of 200 masters and PhD students, faculty and staff who come from around the world to create methods that help companies, governments and civic organizations understand their users and be more competitive.