2013 Central District Design Conference


		Welcome to the 2013 Central District Design Conference. Please join us for this unique and exciting event at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in Downtown Cleveland, April 12-13. Theme No product is an island, especially in this new world of compatibility. A manmade environment typically consists of an assortment of interrelated products working harmoniously with each other, much like our natural ecosystem. When developing a new product experience, it is the designer’s job to carefully consider this context of the micro-ecosystem and analyze the interdependencies formed between the lead product, secondary products, complementary products and accessories lines. The end user or consumer is not served just by a single product but by this well balanced micro-ecosystem. Designing Your Ecosystem is also about the conscious sustainable choices in daily product and process design solutions we each make in our own design spheres. And, as we connect our independent design communities, we can effectively manage the interactions within these micro-ecosystems and positively impact the macro-level environment to make the world a better place. Please join us April 12-13 in Cleveland for IDSA’s 2013 Central District Design Conference, where you will brainstorm and network with educators, students and design and business leaders from around the region and learn what it really means to Design Your Ecosystem. Celebrate Cleveland This year’s host city, Cleveland, is a prime example of one of the nation’s most innovative cities that is moving forward with design as its back bone. With a newly formed “design district” and its many strategic partners and associations, it is creating a benchmark for other cities to follow. Add a day to your visit and enjoy the city with your family. Visit the many contemporary design museums, explore diverse neighborhoods and enjoy savory dinner options. Connect over drinks on the flats and experience the theater district -- it’s the nation’s second largest provider of theater productions. We’ve lined up a great group of speakers to share their success stories, open houses from local design studios for you to have a firsthand look, pre-conference workshops to hone your skills, speed networking to get connected with the business community and an overall fun-filled event to celebrate design. We are confident that from this dialogue you will collect the innovative mojo generated, take it back to your studios and introduce it into your next design venture. Learn. Get Inspired. Act. Jeevak Badve, IDSA Central District VP Feel free to drop me a comment or suggestion: jeevakbadve@gmail.com

Welcome to the 2013 Central District Design Conference. Please join us for this unique and exciting event at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in Downtown Cleveland, April 12-13.

Theme
No product is an island, especially in this new world of compatibility. A manmade environment typically consists of an assortment of interrelated products working harmoniously with each other, much like our natural ecosystem. When developing a new product experience, it is the designer’s job to carefully consider this context of the micro-ecosystem and analyze the interdependencies formed between the lead product, secondary products, complementary products and accessories lines. The end user or consumer is not served just by a single product but by this well balanced micro-ecosystem.

Designing Your Ecosystem is also about the conscious sustainable choices in daily product and process design solutions we each make in our own design spheres. And, as we connect our independent design communities, we can effectively manage the interactions within these micro-ecosystems and positively impact the macro-level environment to make the world a better place. Please join us April 12-13 in Cleveland for IDSA’s 2013 Central District Design Conference, where you will brainstorm and network with educators, students and design and business leaders from around the region and learn what it really means to Design Your Ecosystem.

Celebrate Cleveland
This year’s host city, Cleveland, is a prime example of one of the nation’s most innovative cities that is moving forward with design as its back bone. With a newly formed “design district” and its many strategic partners and associations, it is creating a benchmark for other cities to follow.

Add a day to your visit and enjoy the city with your family. Visit the many contemporary design museums, explore diverse neighborhoods and enjoy savory dinner options. Connect over drinks on the flats and experience the theater district -- it’s the nation’s second largest provider of theater productions.

We’ve lined up a great group of speakers to share their success stories, open houses from local design studios for you to have a firsthand look, pre-conference workshops to hone your skills, speed networking to get connected with the business community and an overall fun-filled event to celebrate design. We are confident that from this dialogue you will collect the innovative mojo generated, take it back to your studios and introduce it into your next design venture.

Learn. Get Inspired. Act.

Jeevak Badve, IDSA
Central District VP

Feel free to drop me a comment or suggestion: jeevakbadve@gmail.com