12th Harvard x Design Conference

HarvardxDesign is an annual conference launched in 2012 and led by students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. We bring together creative thinkers, industry leaders, professors, and students to engage, debate, and reinterpret the design process across scales and sectors. Our goal is to share knowledge, tools, and resources that can empower creatives to become change agents through design.

The 2024 conference, themed CO-, will focus on the processes and practices of working directly with the systems, communities, and people who would be users. We aim to explore what the future of design practice looks like through the lenses of collaborating with and for human accessibility and inclusivity, intelligent machines, and wider environmental systems. Through these conversations, we aim to find common threads of methods and thought across scales and mediums of design.

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Date

04.20.2024

Location

Gund Hall
42-48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA

Agenda

8:30 am - 9:45 am
Registration
Breakfast and Coffee Provided

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Workshop

Creating with AI:

From 0.0001% to 100%

Hosted By Tiange Wang, IDEO

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10:00 am - 10:10 am
Opening Remarks

10:10 am - 11:45 am
Panel 1
Cohesion

Bridging Divides and Fostering Unity.

Timothy Bardlavens, Adobe Design
Aske Stampe, Be My Eyes
Adriana Mallozzi, Puffin Innovations
Karen Korellis Reuther, Harvard GSD
Moderated By Rosa Weinberg, MIT

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11:45 am - 12:40 pm
Break
Lunch & Refreshments Provided

12:40 am - 2:15 pm
Panel 2
Coexist

Confronting Climate Crisis and Environmental Governance.

Elizabeth M Dunne, Earth Law Center
Carina Arvizu Machado, DUSP MIT
Catherine McCandless, City of Boston
Sara Nejad, NYU
Moderated By Maria-Mercedes Jaramillo, Harvard GSD

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2:15 pm - 2:40 pm
Break

2:40 pm - 4:15 pm
Panel 3
Collaboration

Human-AI Synergy: Redefining Collaboration in the Digital Age.

Jenna Fizel, IDEO
Juliana Castro Varon, Cita Press
Sacha Alanoca, Harvard Kennedy School
Peitong (Veronica) Chen, Adobe
Moderated by Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Harvard GSD

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4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Closing Remarks

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Workshop

CO- Dialogues:
Networking Workshop

Hosted By MIT Sloan Design Club

Conference Team

CO - Chairs

Deepika Gopalakrishnan, GSD/SEAS
Ghalya Alsanea, GSD/SEAS
Joy Qingru Wu, GSD
Margaret Zhou, GSD/SEAS

CO - Team

Ariel Cao, HGSE
Chenhao Leo Luo, GSD
Connie Wang, GSD/SEAS
Darren Chin, GSD/SEAS
Elly Li, GSD
Jianna So, SEAS
Kevin Tang, GSD
Khan Muhammad, GSD
Matt Thompson, HBS
Matte Lim, GSD
Nikki Zheng, GSD
Selin Dursun, GSD
Shivangi Varma, GSD
Vaishnavi Krishnamurthy, GSD/SEAS
Xinyi Chen, GSD
Ziqi Yan, GSD

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Contact gsdxdesign@gmail.com for any questions or assistance.

HarvardxDesign 2024