Design Forge

Design Forge is Elon’s annual convening of design thinking educators, practitioners and thought leaders. Each year, Design Forge addresses a topic of interest to higher education, strengthens collaboration in the design thinking community and searches for new opportunities for design thinking to enhance student learning.

Welcome, Forging Fridays!

In 2026, join us at Forging Fridays in the Design Thinking Center to connect and meet the creators and learn directly from them. You’ll gain first-hand practice with emergent relational design strategies while exploring how they can apply to your own life.
These sessions also provide an opportunity to return, reconnect, and have your questions answered by the creators. Together, we’ll adapt, implement, and test strategies in ways that make a real impact in our professional, personal, and civic lives. Come away with practical, actionable strategies for implementing these strategies in our professional,  personal, and civic lives.
4th Friday of the month Jan-May
14:00 EST
Free Access
Visit the Design Forge Conference site for further details!
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Like prior years, we will spend time together exploring the how-might-we question in an environment that is part design and part convening, launching new relationships and generating questions, resources, ideas, and frameworks that advance the value and impact of design thinking practices.