Kent State Design Innovation

DI Day is finally here! Join us for our 2026 Design Innovation Day Showcase & Celebration. Experience the creativity and collaboration driving innovation at Kent State, featuring hands-on exhibits, groundbreaking projects, and inspiring work from our DI community. Whether you're a student, faculty member, industry partner, or part of the community, this is your chance to connect, explore, and get inspired!

🗓️ May 1st from 3-6pm
📍 DI Theatre/Auditorium

For more information: https://www.di.kent.edu/Program/GetProgramDetails?courseId=2347fb49-046c-4c14-9445-ed4c7c2248cc

Step back 30,000 years and enter the world of Paleolithic cave art through Embodied Shadows and Light, an immersive exhibit and art lecture with Dr. Michelle Bebber. Using cutting-edge projection, you’ll feel the scale, atmosphere, and creative energy of early human life as never before, blurring the line between past and present, science and art.

🗓️ April 17th from 4-6pm
📍 DI Theatre/Auditorium

Learn more & register: https://www.di.kent.edu/Program/GetProgramDetails?courseId=85b566e1-9aa3-41fb-8049-26fdf22f95de

Join us for the final installment of The Quiet Holds Us, a story series exploring interiority through the voices of black immigrants. At this event, Dr. Amoaba Gooden reflects on the way her body holds life, produces life, and carries power across spaces. Through gesture, story and mindful attention, we’re invited into her world- a quiet archive of resilience, leadership and care that unfolds in every action.
🗓️April 16th from 6-8 PM
📍DI Theatre/Auditorium (DIH 219)
Learn more & register: https://www.di.kent.edu/Program/GetProgramDetails?courseId=5352afd1-fd13-4209-bc96-5be5678a2972.