Lattice: 2025 Design M.F.A. Exhibition

Logo for “lattice: mfa in design exhibition 2025” with abstract gradient shapes forming a flowing grid below the text.

About Lattice

Lattice weaves together the thesis works of eight graduating M.F.A. candidates in Design, each probing the fragile connections between people, cultures, and environments. The projects sustain overlooked histories, reclaim informal spaces, challenge extrovert-centered norms, and imagine new ways of belonging. They navigate discomfort in air travel, explore trust in AI, and reframe human relationships with more-than-human worlds. Through cultural memory, speculative futures, and everyday artifacts, the exhibition reveals design as a latticework of resilience, critique, and care. 

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Meet the Designers

Meet current and past cohorts of M.F.A. students boldly tackling the challenges of today to design a better future in the M.F.A. Student Directory.

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Project Details

Designers

Alix Zhang - “GlowHub”

Ceren Özgen - “EMPiD”

Chaitra Alankar - “Scripting Spaces”

Maya Kotsovolos - “EROSAT”

Philips Peters - “In Flight”

Rose White - “Blackstitch”

Siyu Fang - “Invisible Margin”

Van Thang - “Making it Chin”

Opening Night

Student examines a tablet while seated beside a colorful, sculptural display featuring stacked discs, patterned graphics, and printed booklets. A digital screen with design work is visible in the background.
Visitors explore a design exhibition featuring colorful tables displaying books, lights, and sculptural objects. Attendees observe and interact with the work in a well-lit room with modern decor and design-focused posters on the walls.
Three adults stand smiling for a photo at a design exhibition opening. They are surrounded by other attendees in a bright, modern space with colorful artwork on the walls and green lockers in the background.
Colorful embroidered textile swatches with graphic patterns are displayed upright on a lime green table at a design exhibition. The background shows additional multicolored tables and exhibit materials.
Close-up of the book “Making It Chin: Sustaining Chin Identity in the USA Through Everyday Designs” by Van Thang, displayed upright on an orange table at a design exhibition.
Black binder with white text reading “erosat” on display atop a teal table, surrounded by other printed student publications at a design showcase.
Close-up of a publication titled “in.FLIGHT” by Phillips Peters, displayed upright on a yellow table. The cover features retro-inspired graphics in orange, blue, and beige tones.
Colorful table display featuring Chin cultural artifacts and design work, including a stacked bowl sculpture, embroidered hat, and books such as “Rual Dih! Rule Book,” “Making It Chin,” “in.FLIGHT,” and a black-covered issue of “latitce.”
Exhibition view of the Lattice MFA in Design showcase featuring colorful modular tables displaying student publications like “Erosat,” “in.FLIGHT,” and “lattice.” A large black wall sign lists the exhibit titles and designers.

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