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IT:U for You is a design research project that explores how gifts can carry meaning beyond utility\u2014representing institutional identity, interdisciplinarity, and human connection. Using interview-based methods, the team investigated personal experiences of gift-giving and reception. The result is a modular desktop organizer inspired by the diversity of IT:U\u2019s academic landscape. Made of multiple materials\u2014each evoking a different discipline\u2014the object blends function and symbolism. Through ideation, transformation, and digital components, the gift becomes a lasting expression of IT:U\u2019s values and vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What if an object could carry the soul of a university? IT:U for You transforms the simple act of gift-giving into a thoughtful expression of institutional identity, bridging design, memory, and meaning in one interdisciplinary desktop sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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