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NYCxDESIGN is guided by core values of community, creativity, inclusivity, diversity, and sustainable design for the greater good. Beyond our annual Festival, our year-round programming provides a platform for NYC’s diverse design talent, from students and emerging designers to seasoned professionals. Each program fosters connection, education, and inspiration, empowering the next generation to use design as a powerful tool for positive impact and addressing the world’s most pressing needs.

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IDSA Design Leadership Bootcamp

PARK Academy is partnering once again with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) to proudly offer another exclusive intensive and impactful professional design leadership training program to the design community.

This annual Bootcamp with a growing community of esteemed empowered alumni will be celebrating its fifth consecutive bootcamp as which coincides with IDSA's 60th Anniversary.

This intensive interactive 6-week training program will help you build the competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitude) in 5 key subject areas to help you step up and stand out in leading design for business.

Learn how to manage the complexities between leading and managing design across people, processes, and content. Learn how to speak the language of design for business and how to deliver more value and more positive impact across the triple (people, planet profit) bottom line.

Inclusive Technology：ART, DESIGN, AND INNOVATION FOR ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITIES

This panel will explore how inclusive design could leverage minority community well-being. By highlighting the significance of artistic creativity and technology power, the panelists will share their opinions on how art and technology could become a joint force, empowering diverse communities and facilitating social transformation.

China-US Co-creation: Innovation-Driven Global Strategy for Chinese Design Brands

This online panel forum explores strategies for Chinese brands to thrive on the global stage, with a focus on navigating the challenges of today’s U.S. market amid escalating trade and tax tensions. Discussions cover market differentiation, smart manufacturing, cross-border marketing, supply chain integration, and effective cultural narratives.

Disability Meets Design: Hack Your Home with Laura Mauldin

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY, United States

A program on tactics and strategies for making our homes more accessible for ourselves and our loved ones. Led by Laura Mauldin, the program includes a presentation followed by a hands-on workshop inviting participants to identify and take action toward making a more accessible world, one home at a time.

Technological Innovation: Generative AI-Driven Design and Brand Innovation

Join this online panel forum exploring how generative AI transforms art, design and branding. Discover AI applications in product innovation, cultural revitalization, and interactive experiences. Featuring experts from Tencent, Adobe, PhotoG, Harvard, and MIT, hosted by founder of Edensign, Zhi(George) Zheng.

Micro and Macro: A Conversation on Interior Design and Architecture

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY, United States

A conversation with 2025 National Design Award winner Little Wing Lee and architect Frida Escobedo about their work and the multifaceted relationship between interior designers and architects. Gain insight into their respective design approaches and hear more about how they continue to think on micro and macro scales together.

Recess // Reset: Conversations for Design Tomorrow

Parsons School of Design Parsons, The New School, Starr Foundation Hall University Center, UL102, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, United States

Parsons School of Design presents Recess // Reset: Conversations for Design Tomorrow—a fast-paced talk series with top experts exploring AGI, future design jobs, new teaching methods, and urgent ethical questions.

The Future of the Intersection Between Design and Technology

Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech Campus (Room 131) Cornell Tech 2 West Loop Road, New York, NY, United States

Join Jenny Sabin, Chair of Cornell’s Department of Design Tech, for an engaging panel discussion on the future of the intersection between design and technology. In conjunction with the Design Tech Exhibition at Cornell Tech, this talk will explore how emerging technologies are transforming design practices and solving global challenges.

Inside the Design Studios: Studio DB, Alfredo Paredes, The Brownstone Boys & Steve Cordony

POWERHOUSE Books 28 Adams Street, Brooklyn, United States

Top interior designers, including Studio DB, Alfredo Paredes, The Brownstone Boys, and Steve Cordony—known for their work with high-profile clients—join a panel at POWERHOUSE Books for Dumbo Design Day. Moderated by a leading design journalist, they’ll discuss monographs, running a studio, and the future of interior design.

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