As AI evolves, human skills like judgment, creativity, and clarity of intent are more critical than ever. This discussion explores how designers are becoming “AI fluent,” treating models as strategic

Join us during San Francisco Design Week for cocktails, conversation, reflection, and reconnection at California College of the Arts.  Alumni, faculty, staff, and friends are invited to reconnect, share stories,

Have you mastered the windmill shot (or at least the confident strut to the first tee)? Come hang for the ultimate fresh-air SFDW meetup at Stagecoach Greens Mini-Golf, a playful,

Enter the world of the great mid-century modern designer Niels Diffrient. Longtime collaborator of Henry Dreyfuss, Eero Saarinen and Marco Zanuso, Diffrient was a lead figure in the field of

Teknion is pleased to host artist Alicia Escott during SF Design Week. Alicia, in conversation with Marthine Satris, will speak about their interdisciplinary art practice and her ongoing collaboration with

A candid evening with our Head of Design and an AI-native designer on how every designer at Gamma now ships prototypes from Claude Code. We’ll walk through the skills we’ve written, the connectors we rely on, how we gather context before touching a pixel, what a real prompting loop looks like, and how design, engineering,

Join Mokume Design Studio founder and principal interior designer, Jennifer Downing, in conversation with Dr. Hemalee Patel, DO (Lifestyle & Internal Medicine), for a science-backed panel on how our design decisions, behaviors and built environments shape physical and mental health. The panel will cover wellness-driven design strategies around circadian rhythm-responsive environments, dedicated wellness zones, and

This conversation between acclaimed interior designer Noz Nozawa, and Pete Rodway, Snr. Partner of Compass, explores how design can become a lens for understanding personal identity. Reflecting on growing up within an American context while holding a connection to Japanese ancestry, Nozawa considers how ideas such as restraint, craft, material sensitivity, and discipline can be

Ciel Creative Space turned 7 this year and we’re celebrating the only way we know how: by opening our doors and letting creativity take over. This isn’t your typical open house. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure through a series of immersive studio activations, each one offering a different perspective on what’s possible within our walls. From thought-provoking

What is a robot? Visions of robots span a wide spectrum: from helpful partners that take on tedious or undesirable tasks, to unsettling replacements that threaten human roles altogether. Headlines in the media and conversations at tech conferences make it clear that robotic technologies are advancing at an unprecedented pace and that robots are here