Find out how design is creating a better world

Wonderful fact: so many of our customers are heroes of the design-led revolution—using the far-reaching power of design to build a future that is environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. It’s a mission we share, and we’re so passionate about it that we’ve created The Autodesk Foundation to support and promote these efforts.

Want to find out more? You’re in luck. The Autodesk Foundation will be an epic destination in the Exhibit Hall at AU this year. Come check out the innovative and inspiring work of our grantees, including high-quality and affordable prosthetics built for amputees in Jaipur, India; manually-operated irrigation pumps built for small-holder farmers in Africa; beautiful, low-cost, energy-efficient homes designed for modest-income homebuyers in Hale County, Alabama, and more.

Want to get involved?
That’s easy. If you plan to attend AU 2014 in Las Vegas this December:

• When you register for the event, make a donation to the non-profit, socially conscious organizations we’re promoting this year, MASS and D-Rev. We’ll match any donation!
• At the event, stop by the Exhibit Hall to participate in this year’s volunteer activity. We’ll be packaging solar lantern kits created by Autodesk Cleantech Partner TayaSola that will go to communities in Kenya that are in need of low cost, healthy ways to light their homes at night.
• Come to the design-led revolution area of the Exhibit Hall and browse through an exhibition of posters designed to raise awareness of global climate change and inspire viewers to make changes in their behavior. 

Check out the Autodesk Foundation website to learn more about how nonprofit organizations are using the power of design to address epic challenges.

Share your story, win a trip to AU!
If you’ve already been heading in this direction and you have an environmentally or socially conscious product or building design up your sleeve, be sure to enter our design-led future contest by Oct. 15. Two winners will be awarded full passes to AU 2014, plus 3 nights lodging and expenses. You’ll also get some exposure in the Exhibit Hall. Booyah! Entering is quick and easy, so if you have a design you like—you’ve really got nothing to lose.

We look forward to seeing you at AU and talking more about how together, we can create a better world.

/Ann

Image above courtesy of Real School Gardens.

Image above courtesy of KickStart International.