30 PlusYears of Making a Mark in the World

University Program (ICP) as a nascent network of excellence and innovation.

Berlin, Escola de Disseny Elisava Barcelona and the National College of Art and Design Oslo join Cumulus family.

program.

new institutions start joining Cumulus group and self-funding the effort to meet twice a year for knowledge exchange.

a vehicle for the cultivation of existing collaborations and the discovery of new opportunities, as well as a platform for global engagement and interaction. Continuing to be one of the most active communities of practice of Cumulus, participants of the X‐files working group include all types of university personnel: faculty members, administrative staff, deans, directors, researchers keenly interested in international mobility and exchange.

and Media” at a conference and General Assembly hosted by the Willem de Kooning Academy, Netherlands. The first edition of the Statutes of the Association is endorsed by members.

Professor Yrjö Sotamaa, Rector of University of Art and Design Helsinki becomes the first Cumulus President.

Helsinki with the leadership of Eija Salmi who becomes the founding Secretary-General and with the support of Sanna Tekonen.

term at the helm of the association.

collaboration in art and design education.

counts with a total of 107 institutions from 39 countries. This formalizes the global interest in Cumulus which started in 2003 with institutions such as CAFA, China already joining then.

School of Design, Nantes Atlantique, France is elected Cumulus President.

Board member Xiao Yong. The competition is in alignment with the Aspen Design Challenge, organized by INDEX and AIGA “Designing Water’s Future.”

Shanghai, China

Technology and the Helsinki School of Economics.

Cumulus President.

Community,” Aalto University. Cumulus now counts with a total of 169 members from 43 countries.

context of the 2010 World Expo Shanghai.

Milano) elected as the first female president of Cumulus.

Johannesburg, South Africa.

underrepresented is launched. The initiative is called Cumulus Plus +.

perspective to the center of Cumulus conferences. Both initiatives are rolled out during the Cumulus conference Milan 2015 during World Expo.

university, Aalto.

17 Sustainable Development Goals.

University of Lapland (May 27-June 1, 2019), Dr. Mariana Amatullo, Vice Provost at The New School and Professor at Parsons School of Design (NYC) becomes the 4th President of Cumulus. Dr. Amatullo is the first leader of the Association to come from the Global South (Argentina) and be based in the United States.

Luisa Collina, and Mariana Amatullo

hosted by the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotȧ (Oct 30-Nov 1).

the Jury that includes Mariana Amatullo, Cumulus President and Lou Yongqi former Cumulus Vice President.

service in accordance with the Statutes of the Association and best practices in non- profit Board leadership.

institutions around the world.

it would become the blueprint for the design ideas about the interaction functionality for the new Cumulus website.

Cumulus partners.

celebrate the 30 Years of the association. The celebration is also marked by the Secretariat team.

bilingual program in Spanish and English.

full visual identity of the Association designed by Karen Davison (US).

CEB VII recommends Finland as the site for registration to honor Association’s founding and guarantee the smooth transition of the Secretariat’s operations.

Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University, and Saint Petersburg University, is cancelled in the heels of Ukraine Invasion on February 24, 2022.

CEB VII organizes with legal counsel a new set of co-creation workshops and launches a survey to collect feedback from members in order to iterate on a new draft of the Statutes.

One Creativity Club platform to conduct its virtual jury and showcase the gallery of winners and honorary submissions.

to hold their last Board meeting prior to GA and meet the Secretariat after 3 years of pandemic. The GA reaches the ⅔ quorum vote necessary for the Amendments to finalize the registration of Cumulus in Finland to take place and for the Service Agreement with Aalto to proceed.

Only one CEB VII Board member is re-elected into CEB VIII after the remaining candidates from CEB VII withdraw their candidacy at the GA. CEB VIII is constituted with a diverse new team of colleagues from China, Denmark, India, Estonia, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Portugal and South-Africa.