Creativity Workshop: "Established in 1993 and is commited to helping individuals believe in and develop their creative process through using creative writing, art, memoir, storytelling, drama, journaling and map making exercises intended to become the tools for a lifetime. People from all different disciplines, interests and levels of experience, come together to explore their imaginations."
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Find Your Art School: "Premiere online destination for prospective art students"
Added 07012008

Pop!Casts: "Join the conversation and engage in the extraordinary work that had its start in Camden, Maine. Are you ready to accept the challenges issued by the thinkers and innovators who move Pop!Tech audiences, year after year?"
Added 01202008

Storefront for Art and Architecture: "A nonprofit organization committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design. Our program of exhibitions, artists talks, film screenings, conferences and publications is intended to generate dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological and disciplinary boundaries."
Added 01302008

WorldChanging: "Works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together."
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Breather: "Brings together artists, architects, interior designers, graphic designers, landscape architects, and other individuals concerned with design and its effects. The unique benefit comes from the interdisciplinary cross-pollination in both the audience and the presenters. Members of the design community are invited to "take a Breather in Decatur," to be stimulated outside their usual routines, and to benefit from the ideas and practices of other design disciplines."
Added 08262007

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future: "A Harvard Business School Centennial Colloquium"
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Design Directions: "Offers a range of challenging projects which comment on the changing role of the designer in relation to society, technology and culture."
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Design Science Lab: "Recognizes the profound contribution 'ordinary' citizens can make toward solving our most pressing local, regional and global problems. Through direct experience, participants come to understand that individual initiative can and indeed must make a difference in creating a better world."

Gravity Free: "Unique multidisciplinary design conference. Every May, in a design-rich location, hundreds of designers from around the world gather to share two and a half days with the most passionate designers, design thinkers, and innovators on the planet."
Added 12172007

IdeaFestival: "A world-class event that attracts leading and highly diverse thinkers from across the nation and around the globe to explore and celebrate innovation, imagination and cutting-edge ideas."
Added 12152007

integrated: "The theme of the conference deals with the fascinating area between graphic design, typography, new media, architecture, advertising, art and other disciplines."
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International Design Conference in Aspen: "Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke founded the International Design Conference in Aspen more than fifty years ago. He and his wife Elizabeth envisioned Aspen as a place where leaders from throughout the world could gather to share ideas. ... Paepcke established the IDCA as an opportunity to bring together designers, artists, engineers, business and industry leadersóat the same time each year and in a single event."
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Lift: "Is about teaming talented observers, explorers, and builders with people whose work depends on understanding current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. Attendees will face cutting edge business models, bold predictions, radical thinking ideas to inject into their own part of the planet."
Added 12302005

Metropolis magazine's U.S. and International Design Events
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Overlap—Exploring new methods for business and innovation: "Overlap is an un-conference for anyone who wants to learn more about merging business practices with design-centric problem solving and customer understanding. Overlap will be held May 26-28, 2006 in Pacific Grove, California."
Added 05192006

Persuasive 06: "To bring together a multidisciplinary group of social scientists studying persuasion, and engineers developing persuasive technologies in areas such as health and rehabilitation, housing, information and communication, and energy conservation, so they can meet, share experiences, present research, and exchange ideas."
Added 12302005

Pop!Tech: "A one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology and the future of ideas."
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PUSH: "Known for its bold look into the future, intellectual rigor and multidisciplinary focus, the PUSH Conference probes the connections among change, culture and business to explore what's pushing the future in new directions. Through presentations by leading thinkers and artists, PUSH inspires participants to arrive at 'best questions'—the first step in driving innovation and strategy within their organizations."
Added 01012006

Seed Conference: "A One-Day Conference on Design, Entrepreneurship & Inspiration, by 37signals, Segura Inc. & Coudal Partners"
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TED: "Stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes)."
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AACORN: "Arts, Aesthetics, Creativity and Organization Research Network's intent is to develop and promote the field of organizational aesthetics (broadly defined). We wish to provide a wide range of forums where researchers interested in connecting art, aesthetics, and creative practice within organizational and work settings can meet, exchange ideas, share resources, and experiment with new forms of thinking and practice."
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The Advanced Design Institute: "Works to facilitate a deeper and broader understanding of design as activity and culture. Design activity is the way individuals and organizations continuously create our world. Design culture provides the societal context that supports design activity. In a time of dramatic change and of increased complexity, design culture is more timely and crucial than ever."
Added 01152008

Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsiblity: "ADPSR has a sixteen year history of educating design professionals and the public about critical social and environmental issues. Although established with a disarmament focus, during the last nine years ADPSR has expanded its concerns to include the protection of the natural and built environment, and the promotion of ecologically and socially responsible development."
Added 02092003

Cumulus: "International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media"
Added 04182008

designbreak: "A website specifically for collaborating on science, social and engineering projects with a global and humanitarian focus."
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Design Business Association: "DBA exists to promote professional excellence through productive partnerships between commerce and the design industry to champion effective design which improves the quality of people's lives."
Added 08282004

Design Council: "To 'inspire and enable the best use of design by the UK, in the world context, to improve prosperity and well-being.'"
Added 03272004

Design for the World: "An international humanitarian organisation whose objective is to match the skills and commitment of volunteer designers with the needs expressed by disadvantaged populations and the organisations that serve them worldwide. Design for the World unites graphic designers, industrial designers and interior and architectural designers around one common idea: voluntary design for people in need."
Added 11202002

Index: "Includes the successful presentation of five 100,000 € prizes, exhibitions of top nominated designs, future scenarios and Index: Views summit, where creative leaders from all over the world have developed new ideas to improve life."
Added 11062005

International Design Network Foundation: "IDNF was created to establish and foster international communication and cooperation through design activities, in the belief that responsible and humane design is essential to improve the quality of life for all people."
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OPEN Forum: "Informative videos, articles, expert blogs, and more, collected from the web to help you grow your business"
Added 12172007