🏛️ Architecture & Design Sep 17, 2026 · Ellen McGirt

S13E1 DB|BD at Aspen: Todd Breyfogle on the Aspen Institute’s Humanistic History

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In 1949, Walter and Elizabeth Paepkes invited 2,000 artists, thinkers and business leaders to the abandoned mining town of Aspen, Colorado, for the first iteration of an Aspen Institute gathering. Eight decades later, artists, thinkers and business leaders still convene in Aspen every summer to discuss the challenges and advances shaping our world. 



And while their modes of transportation have changed (that first group mostly arrived via horseback), they share a key belief with their pre

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