A day of presentation and critiques by graduating masters students in Architecture, Interior Architecture, Designed Objects, and Design for Emerging Technology with international guest critics, the Public Critiques are the culmination of the year's work in SAIC's design studios
Guest critics include:
• Mimi Zeiger: Critic, editor, curator
• Anjulie Rao: Communications Director at AIA Chicago, Journalist
• Todd Palmer: Executive Director of The Chicago Architecture Biennial
• Ila Berman: University of Virginia Dean of the School of Architecture
• Johanna Agerman Ross: Editor, writer, curator/founder and editor-in-chief of the international design magazine Disegno
• Anika Grobler: Lecturer in Interior Architecture, and Design Studio Coordinator at the University of Pretoria
• Jonathan Nesci: Furniture Designer, founder of HALE
• Fiona Raby: Professor of Design and Emerging Technology and a Fellow of the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School in New York
• Shona Kitchen: multidisciplinary artist and designer
• Zurich Esposito: Executive Vice President of AIA Chicago
• Charles Adler: Kickstarter co-founder, designer, and entrepreneur
• Tom Kerwin: Founding Principal of bKL Architecture
• Laura Crane: Director on the AIA Chicago Board of Directors, Associate Architect at bKL Architecture
• Tim Swanson: Chicago Office Practice Leader for Cannon Design
• Todd Heiser: Design Principal and Studio Design Leader in Gensler’s Chicago office
• Michael Golec: Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism at SAIC
• Ekene Ijeoma: Artist, Designer, NYFA Fellow, and New Lab/Simons Foundation Fellow
