2024–25 Public Seminar Series: Cody Hudson

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What can design do?

This year’s public seminar series asks four invitees to reflect on design’s capacities, potentials, and failures. What are the everyday realities of our practice, and where has it surprised us? What future social roles might design play? And where and why have we seen it fall short? In this deeply uncertain time, we may at least be able to specify something about our practice and its place in the world: What can design do?

Working from a cache of abstract shapes, Cody Hudson adjusts scale and proportion, arranging them in different iterations that allow for a visual rhythm to form across works. Inconsistencies and unique moments between works create connections that stretch across two- and three-dimensional renderings. Poised and static or threatening to tumble, stacked visual elements in Hudson’s work build upon themselves in his distinctive abstract style.

The UIC School of Design public seminar series serves as a research platform for the school's MDes program, stimulating broad intellectual inquiry about the values guiding the designer by promoting discourse across industrial and graphic design.

Thursday, Februrary 27
6:30–8:00 pm
Room 1100
Architecture and Design Studios
845 West Harrison Street, Chicago

Free and open to the public.