New tools don’t just speed up old work. In the right hands, they push boundaries and open a door to what didn’t exist before. Stranger, sharper, more specific. More human, not less. What can you make now that you couldn’t a year ago? What happens when AI is thoughtfully integrated in the design process, not

You have a life that, on paper, is working. Work is going pretty good. You have something that looks, from the outside, like the version of success people aim at. But something feels off… You want more, but you’re not quite sure what “more” looks like. Other than continuing to work in tech, people around you are either

The (un)Conscious Creative A blend of plenary and small-group conversations invites participants into deeply engaged, unguarded, and intentional provocations—designed to explore the creator behind the creator. The experience begins at the edge of one’s creative comfort zone and unfolds through a series of inquiries that reveal the undercurrents shaping each person’s creative practice. The ethos

Art Swap: Celebrating Multitudes is a co-created gallery and art-trading happy hour from Coqtail Hour, the Bay Area’s new pop-up creative community built around bringing artists and creatives together through after-hours events, workshops, and social hours. Every guest arrives with a hand-sized piece of art they’ve made. A sketch, a poem, a tiny ceramic, a

Calling all design-curious, AI-curious, and anyone who has wanted to see what designing an intelligent system actually looks like, end to end. Spend 90 minutes at California College of the

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