As digital natives in a newly digital world, we find ourselves examining history, and ourselves, as things unfold. In the face of abrupt and dramatic changes in political, social, and environmental structures this year, we found an opportunity to grow, adapt, and overcome. Our practice gives us a platform to let things just happen and see where it takes us.

This exhibition is the product of a year’s worth of research, resilience, and revolution. We explored themes of self-reflection, social commentary, accepting change, and expanding on different perspectives, in work framed and influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Things Just Happened is the first Mason Gross Design Thesis exhibition to be created entirely on and for remote platforms.