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SUMMARY:The Thought Experiment
DESCRIPTION:The technology that reads electrical signals from the brain has quietly moved out of hospitals and into everyday life. What to do with that data (who holds it\, who benefits from it\, what it reveals about us) remains genuinely unsettled. The Thought Experiment lives inside the gap between what the technology can do and what we have yet to decide it should. \nWho owns what happens inside your mind? The question is no longer hypothetical. \nThe Thought Experiment puts you inside a few possible futures\, each shaped by a different answer to that question. Not as a warning\, but as an experience of what it feels like to live inside each answer\, and to choose which version of that future you want to inhabit. \nThose who observe from outside see something reacting to something invisible. That is its own kind of encounter. \nThe installation uses EEG to translate the neural activity of participants into the environment around them in real time. What you encounter depends on who is inside with you\, and which future you find yourselves inside together. \nCome step inside the question. \nDrop in anytime between 2:00 and 5:00pm. Plan for about 30 minutes\, but stay as long as you like. \nPresented by The Noetic Commons\, artist-researchers working at the intersection of neurotechnology\, experiential futures\, and community. Chrissy Charlton (MS\, Creative Technology and Design\, CU Boulder) and Tyler Grimes (PhD candidate\, Critical Media Practices\, CU Boulder). \nExhibited in the Novack Hub for Creative Citizens\, 2nd Floor\nSimpson Family Makers Building\n145 Hooper Street\nSan Francisco\, CA 94107 \nOpen from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. Limited parking with a four-hour time limit is available along streets adjacent to the CCA campus. Enter CCA’s campus through the main gates. Turn left to access the Simpson Family Makers Building. Once inside\, take the elevator or stairs to the second floor. When you exit the elevator\, turn left. 
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/the-thought-experiment/
LOCATION:California College of the Arts\, Novack Hub for Creative Citizens\, 2nd Floor\, Simpson Family Makers Building \, 145 Hooper Street\, San Francisco\, 94107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Noetic Commons":MAILTO:chrissy.charlton@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Designing the Future Designer: A Speculative Workshop on Identity\, Agency\, and Craft in an AI-First World
DESCRIPTION:The job description for “designer” is being rewritten in real time by AI. So who’s writing yours? \nIn this hands-on workshop\, Elizabeth Glenewinkel and Justin Rheinfrank pose provocations on the future of design for you to challenge\, debunk or embrace. They draw on two workshops they’ve led for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and Salesforce on design and research capabilities needed in the emerging field of designing with and for agents. We know our role is changing\, and reactions range from anxiety to agency. This session is part sparring match\, part design sprint\, and all about the question our industry is grappling with: what happens when the bottleneck shifts from making to choosing? \nThe workshop: \nWe start with speculations about where design is heading. They are uncomfortable and intentionally arguable. We’ll push back\, debate\, and surface the orthodoxies baked into our own practices. \nWe’ll then design an archetype for the future designer: What will they study? What skills will actually matter? What agents will they build\, manage and possibly answer to? What will they make\, read\, and who will they follow? These aren’t hypotheticals. They’re the decisions shaping design hiring\, education\, and practice right now. \nWe’ll wrap up by sharing and reflecting on the most intriguing designer archetypes and what they reveal about the current state of our practice. \nLed by: \nJustin Rheinfrank is a design leader and educator whose work spans product design\, AI interaction\, and design strategy. He is Principal Architect of UI/UX at Slack\, where he leads design for Slackbot\, Slack’s agentic AI interface. He has taught at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation\, California College of the Arts\, Stanford’s d.school\, and has worked with clients including Apple\, Samsung\, Google\, Disney\, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. \nElizabeth Glenewinkel is a design educator and research leader whose work spans studio pedagogy\, human-centered design\, and design strategy. She is Senior Adjunct Faculty at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and the Design MBA Program at the California College of the Arts. She spent nearly a decade at Salesforce leading global research and innovation teams. She has spoken at Stanford’s d.school\, SXSW\, and Dreamforce\, among others. \nWho should attend: Designers\, design leaders\, educators\, and anyone who suspects the next five years will change this profession more than the last twenty and wants to have a say in how. \nFYI: Arrivals can show up at 6 pm. We’ll start the workshop at 6:30 pm and end at 8 pm. Lite snacks and drinks provided.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/designing-the-future-designer-a-speculative-workshop-on-identity-agency-and-craft-in-an-ai-first-world/
LOCATION:California College of the Arts\, Novack Hub for Creative Citizens\, 2nd Floor\, Simpson Family Makers Building \, 145 Hooper Street\, San Francisco\, 94107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Design MBA%2C California College of the Arts":MAILTO:eglenewinkel@cca.edu
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