Think2Design

Learn to design spaces for all human needs

Join us for Think2Design on October 11, 2024 or April 11, 2025 and explore our Interior Design Program through hands-on sessions, tours of campus and design facilities, and meet and greets with our current students and faculty during this daylong visit. We use an integrated approach that relates interior design to society and architecture so you can create and reinvent better residential and commercial spaces.

On this visit, you will: 

  • Tour our state-of-the-art facilities and laboratories.
  • Work on projects with faculty and current students.
  • Learn how ideas transform from idea to concept at the Interior Design Senior Exhibition.

    Agenda

    TimeEventLocation
    11:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.Check-inEHS Building Lobby
    11:45 a.m.
    Welcome & Program Overview
    EHS Building
    12:30 p.m.
    LunchTBD
    1:30 p.m.
    Tour of IND Labs and FacilitiesEHS Building
    ​2:00 p.m.
    Interior Design Challenge (students)​EHS Building
    2:00 p.m.Financial Aid Presentation (guests)EHS Building
    3:00 p.m.
    Interior Design Student PanelEHS Building
    3:30 p.m.
    Senior ExhibitionMary Ann Beckwith Gallery
    4:00 p.m.

    Depart 

    Directions to campus

    College of Education and Human Services
    EHS Building
    195 Ojibway Court
    Mount Pleasant, MI 48859

    Flint/Saginaw/Detroit North Suburbs (Warren, Troy, Oakland & Macomb Counties)Take I-75 north to the Midland US 10 exit. Follow the exit into Midland and watch signs for US 10/20. Take M-20 west into Mt. Pleasant. Once in Mt. Pleasant, M-20 becomes Pickard Street. Continue on M-20/Pickard until you reach Mission Street, the sixth stoplight. Turn left. Go to the fifth traffic light at Preston Street, turn right. The entrance to Parking Lot 22 is just past the third stop sign (Washington Street) on your left. Drive to the opposite end of the entrance (south side of the parking lot) and the EHS Building is across Washington Street to the east. 

    Ann Arbor/Detroit Southern Suburbs (Livonia, Dearborn, Trenton, Wayne County)
    Take Interstate 96 west to Lansing, then US 127 north following the directional signs to Clare. Proceed north on US 127 to the first Mt. Pleasant exit (#139). You will exit onto Mission Street. At the third stoplight (Preston Street) turn left. The entrance to Parking Lot 22 is just past the third stop sign (Washington Street) on your left. Drive to the opposite end of the entrance (south side of the parking lot) and the EHS Building is across Washington Street to the east.

    Lansing/Battle Creek
    Take Interstate 94 east to 69/27 toward Lansing. From Lansing, take US 127 north following signs to Clare. Proceed north on US 127 to the first Mt. Pleasant exit (#139). You will exit onto Mission Street. At the third stoplight (Preston Street) turn left. The entrance to Parking Lot 22 is just past the third stop sign (Washington Street) on your left. Drive to the opposite end of the entrance (south side of the parking lot) and the EHS Building is across Washington Street to the east. 

    Chicago area
    Take Interstate 94 east toward Detroit. Merge onto Interstate 196 north/US 31 north toward Holland/Grand Rapids (exit #34). Proceed north on Interstate 196 north. Merge onto US 131 north toward Cadillac (exit #77A). Take the M46 east exit (#120) toward Lakeview or Saginaw. At Six Lakes (blinker light), turn left or north on highway 66. Continue to Remus, and at the traffic light turn right or east on M20. Once in Mt. Pleasant, M20 becomes High Street. At the fourth traffic light (Washington Street), turn right. At the third stop sign (Preston Street), turn right. The entrance to Parking Lot 22 is off Preston Street just before the railroad tracks. Drive to the opposite end of the entrance (south side of the parking lot) and the EHS Building is across Washington Street to the east.

    Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo
    Take Interstate 131 to Grand Rapids/Cadillac. Take highway M46 east toward Lakeview or Saginaw. At Six Lakes (blinker light), turn left or north on highway 66. Continue to Remus, and at the traffic light turn right or east on M20. Once in Mt. Pleasant, M-20 becomes High Street. At the fourth traffic light (Washington Street), turn right. At the third stop sign (Preston Street), turn right. The entrance to Parking Lot 22 is off Preston Street just before the railroad tracks. Drive to the opposite end of the entrance (south side of the parking lot) and the EHS Building is across Washington Street to the east.

    Big Rapids
    Take highway M-20 east to Mt. Pleasant. At the fourth traffic light (Washington Street), turn right. At the third stop sign (Preston Street), turn right. The entrance to Parking Lot 22 is off Preston Street just before the railroad tracks. Drive to the opposite end of the entrance (south side of the parking lot) and the EHS Building is across Washington Street to the east.

    Northern Michigan and Upper Peninsula
    Take I-75 to US 127 south to the first Mt. Pleasant exit (#144), which is also Business 127. Business 127 becomes Mission Street. Turn right at the sixth traffic light (Preston Street). The entrance to Parking Lot 22 is just past the third stop sign (Washington Street) on your left. Drive to the opposite end of the entrance (south side of the parking lot) and the EHS Building is across Washington Street to the east.​