Why Design Now? Solving Global Challenges Conference - part 13

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Channel: Cooper Hewitt · 2010 · Education

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How can we power the world with clean energy? How can we improve the quality of life through health-care innovations? Design has emerged as a powerful tool to help businesses offer ingenious and often disruptive solutions to the world's most complex problems.

Join us as leading thinkers, scientists and designers share their expertise and discuss how design can accelerate innovation and provide efficient and scalable solutions to the most pressing global needs.

This program was a collaboration with GE and Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

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