 After a decade as president, Farson elected to become chairman of the board of WBSI and accepted an appointment as the founding dean of the newly formed School of Design at the California Institute of the Arts, where the emphasis was on social and environmental design.Farson’s continuing interest in these issues is also evidenced by his 30-year membership on the board of directors of the International Design Conference in Aspen, a forum for interdisciplinary discussions of the designed environment.He was twice elected its president, serving from 1976 to 1980 and again from 1994 to 1997.