Innovation Forum 2013

The 2013 Innovation Forum assembled a broad audience from around the region— faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members—to engage in a deep dialogue and exchange on wide-ranging engagement with the process of design.

While there is no universally accepted definition of design, for our purposes “design” includes both human and natural phenomena.

• Design can be defined as creating the plan, drawing, schema, strategy, or process for making an object, event, or experience.
• Design can also refer to the occurrence of patterns in diverse spheres across the arts, humanities, the social and natural sciences, business, education, mathematics, and engineering.