A design-led exploration of what our use of AI reveals about us. AI is often framed as a story of intelligence, capability, and acceleration. But beneath every prompt is something

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,

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

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

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

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