About the Department
The Department of Design Tech is a multicollege, transdisciplinary initiative pioneering innovation, research, and teaching on topics at the intersection of design and emerging technology that most greatly impact research, industry, and practice in a changing world.
Bridging expertise and catalyzing exploration, innovation, and collaboration in emerging areas, including design + interactions, design + materials, design + media, and design + environments, Design Tech is a generator of new modes, methods, and applications that redefine design practice and research.
Participating Cornell colleges: The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP), Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Cornell Bowers), Cornell Human Ecology (CHE), Cornell Duffield College of Engineering, and Cornell Tech in New York City.
Degree Program
Inside the M.S. in Design Technology
Upcoming and Ongoing Events
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Jun 6–Sep 4
AAP Summer Exhibition 2026
Visit AAP this summer for a cross-departmental exhibition featuring student work from the 2025–26 academic year that showcases the college’s creative and critical practices.
Stories Cornell-Developed Particles Supercharge Cancer Immunotherapy
Uli Wiesner, Professor in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Design Tech, collaborated on the study, which reports that the nanoparticles can reprogram the tumor microenvironment, transforming immune-resistant tumors into ones that respond far better to treatment.
Stories Designing the Future: A Q&A With Harald Haraldsson
Haraldsson, Associate Professor of the Practice in Design Tech at Cornell Tech and AAP, shares his vision for extended reality, his lab’s unique approach to prototyping, and what excites him most about the future of immersive design.
Stories Underwater 3D Printing Could Transform Maritime Construction
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Design Tech faculty Uli B. Wiesner and Architecture Professor and Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin were part of the interdisciplinary group that collaborated on the research.
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SplatOverflow Enables Remote Hardware Troubleshooting
Professor of Information Science at Cornell Bowers and Design Tech faculty François Guimbretière is among the team of researchers who developed a new tool that aims to address a major gap in hardware maintenance.
Announcements Explore Fall ’26 Classes for Non-Majors at AAP
Expand your disciplinary boundaries and enroll in courses that cultivate connection and catalyze actionable research. Options range from fundamentals to deep dives across architecture, art, city and regional planning, real estate, and design technology.
Announcements Cornell Researchers Contribute More Than 40 Papers to CHI 2026
Cornell researchers have a major presence at the premier international venue for human-computer interaction, including Wendy Ju, Professor of Information Science and Design Tech faculty member, and Max Kreminski, Assistant Professor, Design Tech (appointed jointly with Cornell Tech).
Paper Voxel Shader – An Efficient Shadow Calculation Approach For Urban Building Energy Modeling
Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Amber Su (B.Arch. ’25) introduce a voxel-based ray-tracing method that efficiently computes sunlit fractions for urban surfaces using point cloud or mesh data without the requirement for manual geometry simplification.
In the Media Why Waymo Is Having a Hard Time Stopping for School Buses
The Verge — Associate Professor of Information Science and Design Tech faculty member Wendy Ju discusses the challenges autonomous vehicle designers face when developing for unpredictable situations.
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