Events

Aspen Design Summit

The Aspen Design Summit is an interdisciplinary, global workshop of designers, NGO decision makers, corporate leaders, students and project leaders who work together to design solutions to projects that improve the quality of life. The projects are those that benefit real people without the means to address impediments to human dignity and achievement. The projects may benefit people directly or other living things on which human activity depends.

In May 2008, AIGA and Cumulus (International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media) began circulating a design brief for the Aspen Design Challenge, a project to increase public awareness of the challenges in providing universal access to clean water. AIGA has joined with INDEX:, a nonprofit network organization that focuses on design to improve life worldwide and Circle of Blue, a coalition of journalists and scientists who are concerned with this project, to launch a challenge for student involvement in developing means of raising awareness.

The 2006 Aspen Design Summit was held from June 20-23.