Conferences

The HarvardxDesign conference is an annual collaborative event between groups at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, MIT, and wider Boston design communities. It is held with a constantly evolving structure, experience, theme, and speakers coming from industry, academic institutions, governments, and more. Each year, we learn from the last and iterate with an ambition to make the conference provocative, unique, and fun!

Since 2012, the conference has brought together creative thinkers, design luminaries, professors, industry leaders, and students to engage, debate, and reinterpret the design process. By promoting a culture of collaboration, we strive to share experiences across disciplines, explore pressing global issues, and empower students to become change agents through design.

Past Conferences

Re x Design

2024 — 2025 view site

Re x Design

Care x Design

2023 — 2024 view site

Co- x Design

Care x Design

2022 — 2023 view site

Care x Design

Power x Design

2021 — 2022 view site

Power x Design

Reality x Design

2020 — 2021 view site

Reality x Design

Conflict x Design

2019 — 2020 view site

Conflict x Design

Social x Design

2018 — 2019 view site

Social x Design

Influence x Design

2017 — 2018 view site

Influence x Design

Shift x Design

2016 — 2017

Shift x Design

Failure x Design

2015 — 2016

Failure x Design

(Un) x Design

2014 — 2015

(un) x Design

(&) x Design

2013 — 2014

& x Design

2012 — 2013

Inaugural Conference


Join the team

Students attending Harvard University interested in joining xDesign can reach out to the student group at the Graduate School of Design (gsdxdesign@gmail.com). Interest meetings are held towards the beginning of the fall semester each academic year.