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Hope Made Visible: Innovation by Design
![The Surprising Power of Joy](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null374cc6db-f6a6-46c8-b533-f34ef1279601/power-of-joy-aif19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=90%2C0%2C956%2C1439&w=400)
We're often taught that our surroundings are incidental to our well-being, but an emerging body of research shows that the physical world can be a powerful tool for cultivatin...
![Designing in New Dimensions](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null55cab8d9-d626-4cde-9723-a39760b00e62/designing_new_dimension_aif19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C2560%2C1442&w=400)
As virtual and augmented reality technologies mature, the line between the physical world and a simulated world begins to blur. By way of amusing features like face filters an...
![Exploring Design Trajectories for a Better Future](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nulla2ca0c27-7cb8-4f33-a727-7edf128d9b02/exploring_design_trajectory_aif19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C2560%2C1440&w=400)
This conversation with two global design leaders will feature a discussion on how design creates better trajectories for brands and why design will be responsible for creating...
![Design as an Attitude](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullb1f99b22-94e4-4878-87b1-b7df5a5acca3/design_attitude_aif19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C7%2C2560%2C1440&w=400)
What is design’s role in our lives today? How will it evolve in the future? How can design help us address the tumultuous changes we now face? Award-winning design critic Alic...
![The Art of Hope: Transforming Lives Through Creative Collaboration](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nulla6163714-7ea1-4896-9a9a-aa88582fad68/art_of_hope_aif19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=101%2C0%2C962%2C1440&w=400)
How can business leaders use their acumen and resources to revitalize the communities of which they are a part? What can artists do to empower those who are trying to escape p...
![Designing Tomorrow, Better](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null625bd6dc-9a37-42d8-9810-39b79fd5e6bd/designing_tomorrow_better_aif19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C2560%2C1439&w=400)
How can we normalize inconceivable futures? At any given moment, there are multiple, parallel futures fighting for dominance – emerging from science fiction, political parties...
![Africa’s Creative Renaissance](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullf505f996-f6a9-4d76-8e65-4b29e82ac879/48127910366_5776c8058c_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=655%2C365%2C5393%2C3032&w=400)
Africa is having a creative moment. Architects, fashion designers, illustrators, furniture designers, jewelers, and others are collecting a continent’s worth of influences and...
![Restorative Design: Mending Humanity’s Relationship with Nature](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null4071aef4-3c8d-4062-b637-a27b61b0501e/restorative_design_aif19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C2560%2C1439&w=400)
The threads that connect humans to their natural environments have frayed, and some have completely severed. In an attempt to mend those we still can, designers are forging me...
![Hyperloop One: The Intersection of Engineering and Design](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null0df7bd26-e16d-42b5-8c3e-5a7b96809c3d/48127051938_8a4c07c4a4_h1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C134%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
How we get around fundamentally shapes the way we live, work, and play. From carriages and sailing ships to steam locomotives and propeller planes, methods of moving people an...