The Aspen Design Challenge is an annual call to students worldwide, inviting them to address an international problem that is not only crucial in today’s world, but critical to our survival and the world that we will one day inhabit.

The Challenge is a partnership between AIGA, the professional association for design, in the United States, and INDEX:, a nonprofit  organization that is dedicated to changing global mindsets by exploring and showing how design can improve life for people. This year`s challenge, “Designing Water’s Future,” is a collaboration between Circle of Blue—the international network of leading journalists, scientists and communications designers that reports and presents the information necessary to respond to the global freshwater crisis—and COLLINS:, a communication design and innovation firm based in New York City.