Exhibitions

Professor CJ Yeh | Professor Christie Shin

The role of the designer is being redefined. As advanced technologies transform the design process, designers are moving beyond executing production details to become visionaries who shape ideas, direct systems, and orchestrate collaboration between humans and AI agents.
This exhibition imagines a future where Creative Intelligence is measured not by what designers can produce with their own hands, but by what they can envision, direct, and bring to life. Freed from traditional production constraints, designers can focus on what matters most: asking better questions, solving bigger problems, and architecting meaningful solutions that were once beyond the reach of any individual.
The 2026 Creative Technology & Design (CT&D) Annual Exhibition features award-winning projects from advanced CT&D courses, including Dynamic Branding, AI-Assisted Design, Digital Product Design, and Kinetic Typography.

Fashioning Desire: Willy Chavarria and Bárbara Sánchez-Kane is an exhibition exploring the work of designer Willy Chavarria and designer and artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane in dialogue with one another. These two queer designers of Mexican heritage are reshaping global fashion through their innovative collections. Organized by MFIT's senior curator of education and public programs, Tanya Meléndez-Escalante, the exhibition celebrates how the designers' identities inform their creative vision. The works of Chavarría and Sánchez-Kane are imbued with desire—libidinal, sensual desire, but also a desire for belonging, for resistance, and for visibility. The exhibition will be organized thematically, bringing together works by both designers that reveal shared aesthetics and ideas. With fluid boundaries and bilingual texts, these sections will allude to the binational origins of the creators. 

Image: (L) Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Photographer: Dorian Ulises López Macías. @dorianuliseslopezmacias. (R) Willy Chavarria, Photographer: Diego Bendezu