LICENSING | May 2025

Dignify by Design Summit Returns to Santa Fe

The fourth biennial Museum Design Summit will take place in Santa Fe, on July 9-10, 2025. We will gather leaders and leading firms in design, architecture, manufacturing, and retail to discuss topics relating to trends in design, creativity, working with cultural material and creating community.

The theme of this year's Summit is Dignity, and the title of the Summit is Dignify by Design: Respecting People, Place and Tradition. We believe that design has an important role to play in dignifying the lives it touches and the spaces it envisions for humans to gather.

In addition to stimulating presentations and ample time for networking, attendees will have the opportunity to visit the Museum of International Folk Art and Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and enjoy a curated view of the world class ethnographic textile, pottery and basketry collections at each museum and engage in hands-on projects.

Speakers

The group of national and internationally recognized speakers are changemakers in their respective fields and include: internationally acclaimed architect and spatial thinker, Michael P. Murphy ; Mexican designer specializing in sustainable and culturally based materials Fernando LaPosse; ceramicist, designer, film maker Virgil Ortiz; and Executive Director of the International Folk Art Market, Stacey Edgar, Marie Brown, Executive Director of Handshouse Studio (an organization instrumental in the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, and principals of the Paris-based A + A Design Studio - Aki & Arnaud Cooren

Dignify by Design: Respecting People, Place and Tradition is presented by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation in partnership with Human Dignity Projects, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting dignity in all aspects of life. The organization publishes dig.ni.fy, a digital magazine that shares stories of people, businesses and cultural leaders working to ensure dignity remains at the core of their work.

Foundation members and friends are encouraged to attend this extraordinary event. To learn more, or buy tickets, visit dignityprojects.com.