In an age of acceleration, we gather to remember slower ways of being human. Soft Threshold is an immersive multi-sensory experience exploring the meeting of cultures through space, sound, scent, objects, and storytelling. Rather than offering a guided path, the event invites attendees to move through a layered environment where different traditions of beauty, ritual, and

Join Belmondo Studios for a panel with leaders from Samsung, Field Paoli Architecture, and Collab Fertility, plus a hands-on workshop. Explore how design navigates complexity followed by a 5:15 PM social mixer featuring a live DJ set and curated local refreshments. Brands today are asked to be many things at once — premium and accessible,

A lot of designers are quietly figuring out where they fit in the new story. This workshop helps you write yours. Elysa Fenenbock and Lynn Casey bring futures thinking, play science, tarot archetypes, and other ways of knowing into a room designed for real making. Over 2.5 hours, you’ll use your hands to get honest

***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES*** ****Attendees will all be notified via email from [email protected] and will be refunded the ticketing fee**** Al is rapidly changing design. In the process it’s raising deep questions about what it means to be a designer, what it means to design, and what roles people take

Set within the soaring public atrium of Building 12 at Pier 70 in San Francisco’s Dogpatch, this exhibition pays homage to the site’s shipbuilding past while exploring the human condition through a nautical lens. Join Sarah Stangle, the show’s curator and founder of 3RD ST CREATIVE ARTERY, for a walkthrough of the exhibit that explores

Designing the Space Around Your Ears (SAYE): Your pitstop for your SF Design Week itinerary. Come one, come all! Enjoy a live musical performance and conversation about how the most powerful cultural commodity is designed from creation to consumption. This panel brings together voices from across the music industry to explore how music is designed—not

A conversation on how technological innovation in architectural design and fabrication creates new possibilities for architecture deeply rooted in place — examining the poetics of Bay Area locality through design, material intelligence, and advanced manufacturing. Themes to be covered: Poetics of Bay Locality The Bay Area’s wooden grain, eroded coastlines, fog, and bay currents offer

Be the first to see our new wireless collection, designed by Ammunition. Join us in San Francisco for our local moment between ICFF and NeoCon—an evening of drinks, music, and a first look at the collection, alongside an immersive installation by Sheki Cicelsky in celebration of Pride Month. DJ set and drinks. Come by and

Join us for an afternoon immersed in the studios of two interior design firms and one architectural firm. Three of the most distinctive creative studios in the Bay Area — The Office of Charles de Lisle, Studio Collins Weir, and Luca Pignata Studio — open their doors in Sausalito for a directed studio study tour.