Join us at the Erica Tanov Atelier in Berkeley for an evening of conversation, collaboration, and art. This gathering brings together two East Bay design studios with over a decade of creative partnership between them, and with more ahead. Creative Growth, an Oakland-based arts organization serving artists with developmental disabilities, has built thoughtful relationships with

Join Skip for a hands-on exploration of wearable robotics for all ages. This interactive event turns complex concepts like motors, circuits, sensors, and AI —into something tangible, intuitive, and fun. Kids will step into the role of designer and engineer, building their own wearable inventions and experimenting with how machines can enhance human movement. Meanwhile,

Place experience consultancy, City ID, welcomes you to their San Francisco studio to learn about their work in shaping the experience of places around the world. Jason Smith and Halle Van De Hey, will tell the story of the development of the wayfinding system for San Francisco International Airport, (SFO). As a global gateway to

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 quieter, and more human. People turn to AI not only to work faster, but to think things through. To ask questions they can’t ask elsewhere.

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

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