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Indy Design Week 2021, #IndyDW2021, is a design festival taking place from 📅 April 19 - 23, 2021 📅. The festival events will span the week with activities, workshops, and at least one full day conference.This year's theme is 🌳 💧 🌎 Sustainability & Beyond 🌎 💧 🌳 Your ticket gains you access to all workshops, social events, the virtual conference space, and the virtual job fair. There may be some premium events or workshops that require and extra fee.

Our virtual job fair will take place on Wednesday - Friday of the week in a virtual reality space.

We are excited to be partnering with the Columbus Design Institute, AIGA, MORE magazine, Sustain Indy, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, and more.

We are collaborators - pushing to elevate ourselves and our communities and we want to take YOU with us!

☀️ Monday : Kick off the week with the beloved Illustration Throwdown hosted by Craft Beer Doodle Crew!

☀️ Tuesday: A day of engaging workshops! Build your illustration, Figma and UX skills. Learn how to sustainably shift your wardrobe, or how communicate the importance of sustainability at work and then how to implement it your design practice.

Building Unbreakable Bonds with Relationship Design with Scott Pitkin, Director of User Experience, Salesforce

Figma Workshop with Chris Hartley, UX Designer, SEP

How to Sustainability Shift Your Style with Lauren Ballard

Design for a Circular Economy with Doug Scamahorn, UX Solution Director, Fusion Alliance

Gluestick Mini Zine Workshop with Kelsey Simpson, Managing Director at Gluestick

Sustainability Design Workshop through Thrive Indianapolis with Mo McReynolds, Community Engagement Manager, Office of Sustainability, City of Indianapolis

☀️ Wednesday: The first day of our three days of speakers. Enjoy talks and panels from...

Sustainable UX: Why it’s Not Enough to Focus on the User-Thorsten Jonas, Strategic UX Consultant

Salesforce Design

**LUNCH HOUR w/ GAMES AND NETWORKING

AIGA Panel-Sustainability of the Indianapolis Design Community

Richard McCoy-Landmark Columbus Foundation

AIXA - Voice-based AI that is changing the narrative for minorities in tech-Dorsh Deans, CEO of AIXA

Emily Tornquist-Agile Transformation and OCM Consultant

Madison Stevens-Human Centered Design Manager at Cummins

Brian Burtch-Owner at NEON Architecture

☀️ Thursday: The second day of our three days of speakers. Enjoy talks and panels from...

Creating Vibrant Sustainable Communities: Lessons Learned from an Accidental Developer-Mike Keen-Principal, Thrive Michiana LLC

Sustainable UI-Sanchit

HIP-Pamela Napier, Associate Professor at Herron School of Art and Design

Panel Discussion

**LUNCH HOUR w/ GAMES AND NETWORKING

MORE Magazine-Sustainable Living

Historic LGBTQ Spaces in Indianapolis-Jordan Ryan, Architectural Historian, Archivist and Activist-Scholar

The Design of PLANET 2050-Karen Cecil, Director of Global Environmental Sustainability Cummins, Inc.

Neil Mylet-Inventor, Farmer, & Humanitarian

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful

☀️ Friday: The third day of our three days of speakers. Enjoy talks and panels from...

Pamela Napier, Associate Professor at Herron School of Art and Design

SEP Design

**LUNCH HOUR w/ GAMES AND NETWORKING

CDI Panel with Richard McCoy

Sustaining a Freelance Career-Jingo DeLaRosa, Commercial illustrator, Art Educator, Community Artist, and Urban Sketcher

Avoiding Burnout-Chris Hartley, UX Designer at SEP

Healer & the Rise of Immersive Art-Matt Panfil, Art Director, Professor at IUPUI and University of Indianapolis

Communicating the Value & Strategic Relevance of Design-Travis Brown, Senior Executive Assistant Dean, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering

BLM Curation-Kaila Austin

Jay Wall & Kaila Jacques, Principal and Creative Directors at RallyRally Design