WHERE DESIGN BECOMES RESEARCH.

WHERE RESEARCH BECOMES IDENTITY.

ICR is a digital institute dedicated to the intellectual foundations of design.

We exist because creative education has a blindspot:

students are taught how to make things, but not how to think.

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