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SUMMARY:Ecological Futures in Design
DESCRIPTION:This conversation explores the future of ecological design beyond “sustainable materials” —shifting the dialog from replacing one material with another\, and instead rethinking our relationship to matter itself. New ecologies of design are emerging as a practice of building interdependency: with ecosystems\, with communities\, and with non-human life. This panel conversation brings together practitioners across the design world in architecture\, materials design\, human-computer interfaces\, fashion\, and industrial design for a dialog on the frontiers of new design ecologies with biomaterials.  \n  \nFrom extraction and consumption toward participation\, reciprocity\, and new forms of exchange – biomaterials are becoming a medium for new relationships between the built and living world: \n  \n\nOcean Ecosystem Regeneration with Sea Urchin Architectural Surfaces | Virj Kan –  Marblis by Primitives\nBiobased & Natural materials adoption in the Built Environment | Teresa Jan –  Perkins&Will\nDialog on the paradox of making in a climate crisis through fashion | Stella Harry Lee – WithRawMaterials \nNarrative Futures that create awareness and mindfulness around ecology through Fungi | Jerome Tavé – 10th Floor Studio\nBiomaterials and Biosensors: From Growable Interfaces to Biosensing Cosmetics | Katia Vega – Interactive Organisms Lab\, UC Davis\n\n  \nVirj Kan – Marblis by Primitives   \nVirj Kan is a designer\, materials engineer\, and the Founder of Primitives. Primitives is a biodesign lab that develops advanced materials to restore nature’s balance. Through cutting-edge materials science\, innovative design\, and environmental science\, Primitives is working to reshape the modern materials landscape into a platform that drives nature and biodiversity regeneration. Its architectural surfaces brand\, MARBLIS™ brings this vision to the built environment and introduces a new class of stone surfaces called biocalcite\, engineered to support ecosystem repair and design performance. Its debut innovation\, Urchinite™ is a biocalcite surface made from ecologically destructive purple sea urchins\, designed to restore kelp forests and regenerate ocean biodiversity. \n  \nTeresa Jan –  Perkins&Will  \nTeresa Jan is an architect and urbanist who leads design with curiosity and a deep commitment to community\, nature\, and their evolving interconnections. She brings a regenerative design ethos to diverse project types\, striving to advance climate justice through inclusive\, place-based solutions. Teresa listens with intention\, embracing complexity and the nuanced needs of each project to foster meaningful connections between people and the broader climate culture. A passionate advocate for healthy and resilient communities\, she promotes equitable building decarbonization and views all-electric cooking as a vital step toward a climate-aligned future. Teresa recently served as a content leader for The Building Decarbonization Practice Guide: A Zero Carbon Future for the Built Environment. She was a juror for the 2023 AIA Architecture Awards and remains active with AIASF COTE. Teresa also serves on the Northern California Regional Leadership Advisory Board for USGBC-CA. Currently\, she is the Director of Regenerative Design at Perkins & Will architects.  \n  \nStella Harry Lee – WithRawMaterials \nStella is a material and product designer exploring the future of materials and our evolving relationship with them. With a background in fiber arts\, she began by working closely with the raw ingredients of clothing—spinning\, dyeing\, and understanding their origins. Later\, her time at corporate fashion companies challenged her to think more critically about the lifecycle of products and the systems behind them. In response to the endless consumerism in the context of the climate crisis\, her latest work shifts focus toward biodegradable and bio-based materials like seaweed\, algae yarn\, mycelium\, and fish skin. Her work now aims to bridge the worlds of science and consumers through product and textile design. \n  \nJerome Tavé – 10th Floor Studio  \nJerome Tavé (he/him) is an artist with a background in design and has worked as an interaction designer for a variety of companies and design groups\, in addition to teaching in the Web & New Media program at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Over the last 6 years\, Jerome has incorporated fungi as a central part of his work. By experimenting with materials\, and presenting them in new ways\, Jerome hopes to explore narratives for new futures\, while creating awareness and mindfulness around ecology. 10th Floor Studio is a conceptual art studio operated by Jerome Tavé and Kyle Lawson focusing on works that envision futures they want to see and build together. \n  \nKatia Vega – Interactive Organisms Lab\, UC Davis \nKatia Vega is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design at the University of California\, Davis\, where she founded and directs the Interactive Organisms Lab. Her research integrates human–computer interaction\, biotechnology\, and wearable technologies to explore how the body and living systems can serve as platforms for computing. She introduced Beauty Technology (electronics embedded into cosmetics) and has since expanded her work to Biocosmetic Interfaces for discreet\, non-invasive health monitoring with cosmetics\, Animal Biosensing Computing for biosensing on animals biofluids\, and Growable Interfaces that employ bio-based materials for sustainable devices.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/ecological-futures-in-design/
LOCATION:Four One Nine\, 419 10th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Architecture
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SUMMARY:Global Contemporary Design\, Crafted in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Colección Estudio is a design studio founded by three designers: Andrés Cacho\, Manuel López\, and Daniel Martínez\, who explore the intersection of art\, craft\, and contemporary furniture. Since their founding\, they have built a practice rooted in Mexican cultural legacy\, material experimentation\, and collaboration with artisans\, producing limited-edition objects that travel between local workshops and international markets. \nThis talk traces their journey: from establishing a design studio that bridges Mexico and the United States\, to evolving into mentors through Punto 3\, a new platform that supports emerging designers through knowledge exchange\, collaborative production\, and a shared belief that craft must be projected into the future\, not just preserved. \nIn a city shaped by innovation and cross-cultural exchange\, Colección Estudio invites the San Francisco design community to explore what it means to build a global design practice with deep local roots\, and how mentorship\, multiplicity\, and making become tools for collective growth. \nBio: \nColeccion Estudio is made up of three Mexican designers: Andrés Cacho\, Manuel López and Daniel Martínez. \nBased in Mexico City\, San Francisco and Queretaro\, Coleccion Estudio creates objects at a slower pace and with a more humane process that fosters long-lasting emotional connections with the spaces you inhabit. Inspired by stories and techniques rooted in our culture\, we translate them into limited-edition furniture\, accessories and collectible design for your home.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/global-contemporary-design-crafted-in-mexico/
LOCATION:Four One Nine\, 419 10th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Food as Infrastructure with Landscape Architects Christian Douglas Design
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, principals and landscape architects Christian Douglas and Christian Macke of Christian Douglas Design\, explore food-centered design at every scale – from master plan communities and rooftop farms to hospitality experiences and the humble home garden. Drawing on Douglas’s book The Food Forward Garden and the firm’s broader design philosophy\, the talk reframes food as essential infrastructure: a framework for ecological resilience\, human health\, and lasting environmental impact. \nDirectly following this event\, join us for a Happy Hour on the beautiful Rooftop Garden \nABOUT: \nChristian Douglas Design (CDD) is an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area-based landscape architecture firm specializing in food-focused outdoor spaces that blend ecological resiliency with exceptional beauty. From residential homes and wineries to rooftop farms and large-scale master planning. CDD’s designs are fully immersive\, curated spaces for recreation and relaxation\, foraging and feasting. \n  \nChristian Douglas\n\nFOUNDING PRINCIPAL \nChristian Douglas is a multi-award-winning landscape designer\, creating beautiful and productive outdoor spaces for over 25 years. Combining his formal training in classical design and his passion for regenerative agriculture\, he has created innovative landscapes in his native England\, the Middle East and the United States\, with food at the heart. Before settling in the US\, Christian owned a design studio in the UK for many years\, followed by extensive global travel learning strategies for farming and survival in desert environments while working and teaching for both for-profit and non-profit farms and education centers. Constantly inspired by the common connection traditional cultures have to their environment and growing food\, Christian believes modern landscape design has a significant role and responsibility to play in restoring our relationship to the natural world – starting with food. Christian has been featured in Architectural Digest\, WSJ\, California Home & Design and Sunset Magazine\, and published his first book on food-forward design philosophy in 2024. \n\n\nChristian Macke\n\nPRINCIPAL + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT \nChristian is a licensed Landscape Architect with a focus on agrihood design and development. His shared desire to integrate food and regenerative strategies into every project is matched by his ability to create highly detailed masterplans. From landscape analysis and design to community programming\, his leadership and skills have supported large teams developing innovative lifestyle communities and fully-integrated sustainable developments. His experience includes working with large-scale estate owners\, developers and operators with a focus on land and farm-based hospitality\, master-planned communities\, multi-family and mixed-use developments. He collaborates with a wide variety of disciplines to find solutions to today’s issues – economic\, social and environmental – creating the foundation for design that is at its core; resilient\, and truly authentic.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/a-conversation-with-christian-douglas-design/
LOCATION:Four One Nine\, 419 10th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Landscape Design
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SUMMARY:The Art of Making Surfboards
DESCRIPTION:Michael Quesenbury is a native of the Pacific Northwest who transplanted to California at the end of the millennium looking for all things that come with Californification; beautiful weather\, fabled cities\, outdoor lifestyles and a melting pot of design and art. \nHis simple mission statement is “I get out of bed to create beautiful things.”  Educated with a degree in architecture and a 30-year career in luxury construction\, Michael’s work focuses on functional creations that strive for a classic and timeless quality complimented with a story.  An object without a story is an object.  An object with a story is an experience. \nRomanticized by the surf culture of California’s 50-60’s and enamored by legendary coach builders like Ferrari and Buggati\, Michael has set off to create one off\, bespoke\, vintage style surfboards and paddleboards that encapsulated high design and fine craftsmanship into each board. \nEvery detail is executed with a purpose or thought initiating with its function and stylized through use of reclaimed material\, sacred geometry\, celebration of the defect and integration into the greater work as a whole.  The work is purposely focused on the element of hand-crafted techniques\, always striving for perfection but never perfect. \nLastly\, the work is functional.  It is not meant to be a precious jewel.  Scratches and dings are part of the aging process\, only adding to the story of the creation and the experience.  Enjoy. \nMichael’s work has been featured on NBC’s California Live & Fox Sports\, has received the 2024 Award of Excellence and 2025 Best of Art awards at the annual Artistry in Wood Exhibition\, the 2026 Bay Area Woodworker’s Association Exhibition Best of Creative Art\, a finalist for Johnny Depp’s “The People’s Artist”\, and has been selected for the juried Nimbus Arts “Nimbash” Auction multiple times.  Michael is the current chairperson for the Sonoma County Woodworker’s Association and sits on the Santa Rosa Community College’s Construction Management Advisory Board.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/the-art-of-making-surfboards/
LOCATION:Four One Nine\, 419 10th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Enduring Spirit of Innovation and Optimism in the Bay Area w/ Designwise\, Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity\, Love Good Color + Project Color Corps
DESCRIPTION:As part of Design Bay Area’s Year of Design celebration\, join us for an afternoon exploring the enduring spirit of innovation\, creativity\, and optimism that has shaped the San Francisco Bay Area for generations with Designwise\, Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity\, Love Good Color + Project Color Corps. \nBringing together voices from across design\, color\, sustainability\, strategy\, and cultural storytelling\, this conversation will reflect on the Bay Area not only as a global center of innovation\, but as a deeply human place shaped by imagination\, experimentation\, and the belief that design can improve everyday life. \nTogether\, we’ll explore questions about how design influences the way we live\, gather\, build\, and belong: \n\nWhere is design currently at its best within San Francisco?\nWhat elements of our environment or systems have been overdesigned/underdesigned?  \n\nWe are using select BART stations as a case study example.\n\n\nIn what areas can we better utilize design to improve our community?\n\nThis conversation invites attendees to reflect on the role of design not simply as aesthetics or industry\, but as a tool for connection\, civic imagination\, and cultural change. \nPanelists: \n○ Laura Guido-Clark – Love Good Color & Project Color Corps – Color Advocate\n○ Llisa Demetrios – Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity – Cultivating Curiosity\n○ Mary Lee Duff – Former Principal Interior Architects – Strategy\, Neurodiversity\n○ Jean Hansen – Former Principal HDR – LEED Fellow\, FIIDA\, CID\, WELL AP –\nSustainability \nModerated by Dawn Zidonis\, CEO\, Design Bay Area \nCo-hosted in partnership with Designwise \nAbout Designwise\nThe mission of Designwise is to democratize the transformative power of design by capturing\nand sharing collective wisdom. We aim to empower the next generation of emerging designers\nand underserved communities\, encouraging them to use design as a potent vehicle for\nsystemic change and the greater good. \nPhoto Credit: Ron Poznansky
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/innovation-in-the-bay-area/
LOCATION:Four One Nine\, 419 10th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gazetteer: Designing a Newspaper in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Gazetteer: A new approach to local news\, starting in San Francisco.\nNo SEO games\, no social media\, just the news you need today. \nAn Intimate fireside chat about printing\, design\, and news media in the age of digital channels. Join Gazetteer SF‘s Jack Browning and SF Design Week CEO Dawn Zidonis as Jack shares his journey in creating visual designs from editorial to book design. \n  \n  \nABOUT JACK BROWNING: \n\nHello\, I’m Jack Browning\, the owner and creative director of DJB Design LLC\, a visual design company that specializes in brand marketing and storytelling\, editorial\, book design\, and UX/UI design. I have offices in the Bay Area and New Orleans\, Louisiana\, but my work truly extends coast to coast!
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/printing-press-newsprint-and-digital-media-with-gazeteers-jack-browning/
LOCATION:Four One Nine\, 419 10th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Plural by Nature: Curiosity as a Creative Practice
DESCRIPTION:This 40-minute presentation will reframe creativity through cultural movement and lived multiplicity\, inspired by Sonya Yu’s upbringing between Beijing and the Bay Area. The duality of cultures taught her to move between languages\, expectations\, and ways of seeing — not as a strategy\, but as survival. Over time\, that in-between space became her creative practice: a way of approaching the world through curiosity rather than expertise. \nThis presentation is less about mastery and more about staying porous\, about harnessing everyone’s innate contradictions as a form of design thinking rooted in observation\, translation\, and presence. Through personal storytelling and reflections on cross-cultural identity\, interdisciplinary practice\, and the quiet power of wonderment\, Sonya invites audiences to reconsider what it means to create without needing to be the authority in the room. Plurality becomes not just a theme\, but a way of moving — allowing curiosity\, conversation\, and cultural fluency to guide process. \nAudiences will walk away with an invitation to embrace creativity as a living\, plural practice — where not knowing becomes generative\, curiosity becomes methodology\, and moving between worlds becomes a source of creative momentum rather than fragmentation.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/plural-by-nature-curiosity-as-a-creative-practice/
LOCATION:Four One Nine\, 419 10th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Future of Home Robotics.
DESCRIPTION:Introduced by Box Clever x Weave Robotics\nMeet leaders from Weave Robotics and Box Clever\, and learn about their shared vision for home robotics. \nWith its new general-purpose robot launching in 2026\, Weave has partnered with SF-based studio Box Clever to design a robot that truly fits in the home. Together\, Weave and Box Clever saw an opportunity to take an uncompromised approach that is decor-driven\, iconic\, and offers homeowners choice.\n \n\n\nBox Clever are experts in design and business\, building category leading brands and products\, through uncompromised and planet positive design. Their unique decor\, lifestyle\, and contextual perspective leads to market success\, with products rooted in clear stories that resonate with people. Their team consists of experts in Industrial Design\, Design Strategy\, Brand Identity\, Packaging\, and Entrepreneurship. \n 
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/the-future-of-home-robotics-by-box-clever-x-weave-robotics/
LOCATION:Four One Nine\, 419 10th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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