College of Design

Undercommoning the Urban Campus

Nov 3, 2025, 2:00 – 5:00 PM

The Undercommoning the Urban Campus Symposium brings together scholars from art, architecture, public history, and urbanism to examine the histories, reckonings, and futures of the modern urban university. Exploring themes such as campus as “UniverCity,” monumentality, and town–gown relations, the symposium creates a forum for dialogue across disciplines. Open to all, it will be of special interest to students and faculty in design, social sciences, and cultural studies. More information here: https://design.uky.edu/events/undercommoning-urban-campus

Cooking Up Collaboration

Sep 3, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30 AM

Join us for an interactive cooking experience hosted by the Sustainable Futures Design Lab (SFDL) within the TRUST Hub that blends food, conversation and community. This event stimulates connections with campus colleagues for transdisciplinary translational research opportunities and participants will collaborate in the kitchen while engaging in discussions about innovative, community engaged solutions.

Life on Earth

Jan 24, 2025, 9:00 AM – Mar 14, 2025, 6:00 PM

Join us for LIFE ON EARTH, an audiovisual exploration of architecture and design's relationship with our planet, featuring David Chipperfield, Feral Atlas, Francis Kéré, Alice Rawsthorn and many more. Beatrice Galilee of The World Around and McKenna Dunbar will give an opening lecture on January 24 at 4:00 p.m. in the Forum (GDB 111). The exhibition will run from January 24 through March 14, 2025, in the Gray Design Building Gallery. More information here: https://design.uky.edu/events/life-on-earth-gallery-exhibition-lecture

Sustainable Futures Design Lab

Nov 12, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

The Sustainable Futures Design Lab hosts a monthly gathering of UK researchers who are committed to socially responsible design research that is connected, critically-engaged, and a catalyst for positive societal impact in the Commonwealth to address pressing global issues.

Athens on the Frontier with Dr. Patrick Lee Lucas

Apr 12, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Join us in the Little Fine Arts Library's Niles Gallery for a trip through American history with Dr. Patrick Lee Lucas. An Associate Professor in the College of Design School of Interiors, Lucas will discuss his latest book, Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860.

Book Talk: Athens on the Frontier

Nov 9, 2023, 7:00 – 9:00 PM

Patrick Lee Lucas will give a talk on his book Athens on the Frontier on Thursday, November 9 at 7pm in the Old Morrison Chapel at Transylvania University. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event

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