"If I had any complaint, it was that there were too many good options for sessions and it was hard to choose one over another . . . Overall a very inspiring experience."
- Noah Scalin, Another Limited Rebellion
"Great conference! I really enjoyed the cross pollination among such a high-wattage collection of professionals. I made some great connections, and found it highly valuable."
- Peter Light, Bloom Energy
"If we want to design a better world let students lead the way. A Better World by Design is a fantastic conference and a great opportunity to co-develop a brighter future."
- Saul Kaplan, Founder and Chief Catalyst, Business Innovation Factory
"A Better World by Design has become one of my favorite conferences - it mixes world class speakers within an engaged student community at Brown and RISD. It's both a provocative and intimate conference experience, and I hope to attend for the third time!"
- William Drenttel, Editorial Director, Design Observer
"It's one thing to go to a conference that's got a healthy infusion of young attendees, speakers, and other participants. It's another thing entirely to go to a conference that's run by students. Instead of the occasional surprise at learning something from a young whippersnapper in a hallway conversation, I was ready to be schooled by the next generation of designers, makers, artists, and thinkers, and got both what I wanted and what I richly deserved. I went in feeling old, I left feeling young."
- Brian Jepson, Editor, O’Reilly Media
Dwell, October 9, 2009
"When I was at A Better World By Design this past weekend, I was blown away by the fact that it was organized by not a a league of design professionals, but a group of nine college students."
Core77, October 12, 2009
"The grassroots student effort that founded and continues to run this conference is incredibly inspiring, and everyone was looking forward to attending the Better World by Design Conference again next fall, with the hope of engaging in critical discussions that will challenge and advance the field of design for the greater good."
The Boston Phoenix, October 6, 2010
"What if architects across America agreed to make every building they design 50 percent more energy-efficient - and keep improving until, by 2030, they're at carbon-neutral? What if designers fully embraced democracy, welcoming and encouraging public input and using their skills to help educate and engage citizens? What if by learning to speak the corporate language, engineers, designers and marketing experts could actually change the companies that hire them - making them greener, more human-centered, and more socially responsible? These are the kinds of questions tackled last weekend at A Better World By Design '10, a conference launched in 2008 by students at Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University that has quickly grown to draw more than 1000 attendees."
