Step Inside: An Exhibition of COD Interior Design Students

September 8 - 26, 2025

Reception: September 17 @ 5pm

Step Inside, explores how technology and design can create new experiences of represented space. Showcasing student work from the 2023-2025 academic years, it reimagines interior design renderings as both artwork and immersive digital experiences. The exhibition features large-scale high-quality rendering prints hung as artwork. These renderings, traditionally used as design tools, are presented as visual statements, emphasizing composition, color, and atmosphere.

Throughout the gallery, QR codes activate digital renderings through virtual reality, blurring the line between "real" and "imagined" spaces. At the opening event, virtual reality (VR) headsets will allow visitors to step fully into the student-designed environments, making the exhibition both visually striking and experiential. Student walk-through videos would be displayed with the use of screens to show what it feels like to move through the designed space.

Step Inside challenges the way we view and interact with design, turning architectural representation into an artistic and immersive encounter while celebrating the success of Interior Design students at the College of DuPage.

Student Renderings: Student Walkthroughs:

Melissa Govea Jose Esquipulas Zavala Lopez

Clemson Brignall Audrey Thorson

Isabella Alfaro Maria Owano

K'lela Cobb Erykah Gallardo

Jose Esquipulas Zavala Lopez Sarah Reynolds

Sabrina Guillinta Emily Dixon

Kelsey Evans Angela Rundo

Olivia Markowski Claire Sporer

Kelsey O'Mahoney

Sabrina Guillinta