Integrating Experiences:

Working Together to Create Tomorrow

The world is full of “wicked problems.” These are problems that are so large, so complex, so challenging that no one person, discipline, or solution can solve them. However, if we don’t address them now, their consequences can be tragic. Sustainability. Poverty. Food insecurity. Discrimination. Pandemics. Migration. The list of wicked problems seems endless as well as overwhelming.

To address these problems, we need ‘all hands on deck.’ We need to be able to come together across disciplinary divides, academic and professional perspectives, and experiential channels.

The 2024 7X Summit theme is “Integrating Experiences: Working Together to Create a Better Tomorrow.” Experience research and experience design are about how to improve outcomes through research and design processes. We seek to understand the nature of experiences, the experiences that people have, the impact of our design interventions, and how to create better designs for the future. Finally, we aim to share our findings with one another so that we can support each other’s work and efforts.

The 2024 7X Summit will bring together experience researchers and designers from around the world to share their work and ideas. We invite you to submit your work for regular sessions, approaches for workshops, or attend to learn from others.

The conference will take place at Bentley University in Waltham, MA USA from October 11-15th.