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May 18-20, 2025

Javits Center, NYC

Schools Showcase

Launched in 2022, the Schools Showcase at WANTED serves as a great opportunity for international design schools to present the work of their best students for them to be part of the main design trade event during NYCxDESIGN, receive feedback from professionals and start building their network.

It is also a space for international design schools to recruit students and to connect with an international schools network to create partnerships and potential exchange programs.

The 2025 Best of Schools and Students Prize awards will be presented with the support of Haworth.

 

2025 Participating Schools:
California College of the Arts
Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseno de Monterrey / CEDIM
IED Istituto Europeo di Design S.B.p.A.
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Parsons School of Design
Pratt Institute
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Rochester Institute of Technology
Savannah School of Art and Design (SCAD)
School of Architecture and Design of the Universidad Anáhuac Puebla
School of Art Institute of Chicago
Tec de Monterrey
Universidad Iberoamericana A.C.
University of Arkansas
University of Iowa 3D Design Program
University of Oregon

Rochester Institute of Technology
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California College of the Arts

California College of the Arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. Benefiting from its San Francisco Bay Area location, the college prepares students for lifelong creative work by cultivating innovation, community engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.

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Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseño de Monterrey / CEDIM

CEDIM is born as a center for design studies in Monterrey by Alejandro C. García Villarreal ~ Integration of careers in CEDIM interior design, graphic design, Visual marketing.The CEDIM is born as a center for design studies in Monterrey. Council President CEDIM María Anita Novak Ibarra 1978 ~ Integration of careers in CEDIM interior design, graphic design, Visual marketing.

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IED Istituto Europeo di Design

Istituto Europeo di Design is an international network of design schools with 11 schools in Italy, Spain, and Brazil. Since its foundation in Italy in 1966, IED has been operating in the fields of education and research in the disciplines of design, fashion, visual arts, communication and art and restoration, welcoming every year more than 10.000 students from all over the world.

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Metropolitan State University of Denver

Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Department of Industrial Design is multifaceted, offering courses in textiles, bicycle design, furniture design, prototyping in metals, woods and plastics, and working with outside industry professionals. Accredited by the National Association for Schools of Art and Design, students gain marketable skills through hands-on projects in state-of-the-art laboratories, led by professors who work in the industry. The Department of Industrial Design is part of the College of Aerospace, Computing, Engineering, and Design.

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Parsons School of Design

Parsons School of Design at The New School enables students to develop the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in and contribute to our rapidly changing society. Students collaborate with peers throughout The New School, industry partners, and communities around the world and in New York City, a global center of art, design, and business. Parsons' unique approach to interdisciplinary, real-world learning is interwoven throughout all of our offerings, from undergraduate and graduate degrees to executive education for professionals to continuing and pre-college courses taught on campus and online.

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Pratt Institute

Pratt is an institute, an experience, and an idea. What started as a radical experiment to expand access to creative careers is now a community of 5,137 grad and undergrad students working across 48 programs with 1,200 dedicated faculty. 135 years in the making, this is Pratt.

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

SAIC has been at the forefront of art education for more than a century and a half, fostering critical thinking, rigorous investigation, and playful creativity. The School was among the first to embrace self-directed study across disciplines. Our alumni have gone on to shape the world as artists, designers, and scholars. And our encyclopedic art museum and civic partnerships inspire millions both at home in Chicago and around the globe. Founded by artists for artists, SAIC has a rich history of innovation in art and design education. Today, it's a unique environment where students are redefining creative making and civic engagement. Explore our timeline to learn how we got here.

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Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

The mission of Rhode Island School of Design, through its college and museum, is to educate its students and the public in the creation and appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to make lasting contributions to a global society through critical thinking, scholarship and innovation.

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Rochester Institute of Technology

The College of Art and Design is RIT’s creative hub where art, design, and technology intersect. From centuries-old and contemporary methods of producing fine art to the latest in digital media, the College of Art and Design possesses a comprehensive selection of majors in disciplines related to visual communication, imaging, and science. If your interests are artistic, creative, and professional, a world of possibilities awaits you here.

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Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)

The Savannah College of Art and Design was founded in 1978 by Richard G. Rowan, Paula Wallace, May L. Poetter and Paul E. Poetter to provide college degree programs not previously available in southeast Georgia and to create a specialized professional art college to attract students from throughout the United States and abroad. The curriculum was established with dual goals of excellent arts education and effective career preparation for students. Today, with multiple locations and online distance education offerings, SCAD continues to assiduously adhere to these goals. SCAD design students directly influence the aesthetic language, performance, sustainability, and financial value of products and experiences. They master the process of identifying design insights, engage in scenario planning, and create viable solutions that become tangible parts of a system, service, or brand. Across an array of design disciplines — graphic design and visual experience, industrial design, design for sustainability, and user experience (UX) design — the SCAD School of Design prepares students to generate imaginative solutions to transform the world.

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Tec de Monterrey

In the field of design, all the products and services we use, which make our lives easier, have a history, a creative process that led them to be what they are. Behind this process is a designer, capable of understanding the way of being and feeling of human beings, their needs, context and limitations and finding new opportunities. The designer is someone who seeks to make things better and work better, he or she is a systemic thinker, an artist of form, an explorer of materials: he or she is an innovator by nature.

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Universidad Anáhuac Puebla School of Architecture and Design

Universidad Anáhuac Puebla the is valued and recognized for graduating positive action leaders whose high academic, cutting-edge professional preparation of international level, their human values ​​and virtues, their comprehensive training and their transcendent vision, allow them to respond to challenges of the contemporary world through their service.

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Universidad Iberoamericana A.C.

Universidad Iberoamericana A.C. is recognized as one of the best private universities in Mexico. IberoDiseño was the first Design School in Mexico City, with over 7000 alumni working for the creative industries. Product Design, Transmedia Storytelling Design, Sustainable Design for Fashion and Textiles and Sensory Design are its current programs.

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University of Arkansas

That 'students-first' philosophy is a big reason why the U of A is consistently ranked among the nation's top public research universities and best values. We work hard to ensure a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes plenty of personal attention and mentoring opportunities. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the university as having "the highest possible level of research," placing us among the top 3 percent of colleges and universities nationwide.

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University of Iowa

Iowa's 3D design faculty are recognized internationally as creative and educational innovators. Working and teaching in some of the best-equipped labs in the nation, they harness advanced technology to produce work of timeless aesthetic beauty and seamless functionality.

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University of Oregon

A unique academic ecosystem, the College of Design comprises not only creative practitioners—artists, architects, and designers—but also social scientists, humanities scholars, engineers, economists, biologists, planners, and policy makers. Using diverse methods, we are engaging critical questions and tackling complex problems. We are dynamic explorers with diverse tools. Through imagination, experimentation, analysis, and creation, we grapple with thorny problems, discover new interpretations, and open uncharted territory. We ask bold questions and make unexpected connections, aiming to engage, enrich, and inspire through the things we make and the stories we tell. Catalyzing curiosity, awe, and empathy opens new potentials.