2025 Emerging Creatives Student Summit: “Resonate: Making Waves”

About Emerging Creatives

a2ru is thrilled to announce that Georgia Tech will host the 2025 Emerging Creatives Student Summit, taking place March 16-19 in Atlanta.

This year’s theme will be “Resonate: Making Waves.” How can our ideas resonate? Waves can be immediate and intense, like an earthquake; or they can accumulate through reverberations over time, like the actions of 1960s civil rights leaders.  Together, we will explore waves–their wake, momentum, and impact.  From the atomic to the emotional to the artistic to the cultural to the galactic, how can we make waves today?

Emerging Creatives is a three-day collaborative experience in which students form small cross-disciplinary teams to explore a specific area of the Summit’s theme. Over the course of the event, teams make something that represents their exploration: a syllabus, cookbook, podcast, app, opera, pair of shoes, urban blueprint, pop-up store, musical score, website…the list of possible outcomes is endless.

At Emerging Creatives, students not only envision and create their project; they also take field trips, meet extraordinary interdisciplinary thinkers, practice presenting their work, and exchange ideas about their project with peers and experts. Students also build collaboration skills in micro-workshops with a2ru staff.

Image Above: “Continuing the Conversation”, a public art work on Georgia Tech’s campus by Atlanta sculptor Martin Dawe. It depicts Rosa Parks at age 42 —  the year of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — and at age 92, the year she died.