DAWN DANBY

Sustainable Design Program Manager
Autodesk

Interdisciplinary designer Dawn Danby believes the things we make should benefit both people and the world. In the last decade, she has applied sustainability to just about every facet of design, from a tree-covered, wind- powered pedestrian bridge on the US-Canada border to closed-loop manufacturing strategies for a leading outdoor footwear manufacturer and a public art master plan for a major american airport. She currently manages Autodesk's Sustainable Design Program, integrating sustainable thinking into the digital tools used by 9 million designers and engineers worldwide. She is a co-author of WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century and the winner of a Royal Society of Arts (UK) fellowship as well as a Metropolis NEXT Generation runner-up for her work on food systems. Dawn holds an industrial design degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.