the larger context of real world projects and encouraging design thinking as a means to create meaningful social impact. Case studies included SELCO, a solar energy company in India; Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation, a healthcare innovation laboratory in Minnesota; Project Masiluleke, an HIV healthcare project in South Africa, and Teach For All, an international network for education innovation. Expansion of Design Observer Group in August 2009 to include Change Observer, Places and Observer Media channels. These channels developed new journalism focused on social innovation, urbanism and design within the public realm. Sponsorship of an Aspen Design Summit in November 2009 in collaboration with AIGA. The summit invited designers, educators, researchers and representatives of NGOs, foundations and businesses to collaborate in addressing large social problems: rural healthcare delivery, early childhood education needs in disaster areas, sustainable food systems, preventative medical healthcare testing, poverty alleviation in rural Alabama, and more. Institutional participants included the Centers for Disease Control, Mayo Clinic, UNICEF, Sustainable Health Enterprises, University of Alabama and Auburn University. Sponsorship of a Bellagio Design Symposium, “Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the ‘Museum,” held April, 2010 at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. The symposium gathered 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists to discuss the museum's role in the 21st century in relation to design for social change, asking how museums should collect, archive and exhibit objects of social innovation. Hosted two symposiums on design education that brought together leading educators at the intersection of design and social change to explore the teaching and practice of social design in graduate design education. The first Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education was held at Winterhouse Institute on October 17–19, 2010 with 13 participants from a variety of design and business schools, discussing the challenges of their social-change initiatives. The 2010 symposium concluded with a plan to prototype a standardized method for reporting on social-design academic institutions. The second Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education took place at The Hotchkiss School on August 14¬-16, 2011. Thirty participants continued the conversation, fostering collaborations and building partnerships within the larger design community of schools and universities. Design Observer (2003-2012) In October 2003, Drenttel, with Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand and Rick Poyner founded Design Observer which became the leading international site for design, urbanism, social innovation and cultural observation, providing a forum for critical discussion and commentary. (Poynor ceased being