Monday, Nov. 6
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Designing Parenthood
Leaders in the design field talk about how they make child care and design work hand-in-hand, then quickly turn it around to get tips from the audience.
Moodboards by Design Discipline
Participants learn how designers of different disciplines creating moodboards and why they are important, then create their own moodboards to take home.
Noon-1:30 p.m.
A Service Design Toolkit: Mapping Service Ecologies
Analyzing, mapping and designing ecologies for service-oriented projects.
Finding Place in My Career as a Designer
No matter the stage in your career, better understand your individual and team member attributes and how those attributes can be utilized on your teams to get to great outcomes.
Wednesday, Nov. 8
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
An Illustrated History of Fashion
A visual journey of the hottest fashion of the 1960s and its relationship to the social and cultural happenings of the era, followed by the opportunity to practice your own new silhouettes and styles.
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Reflection by Design
Participants join other creative thinkers and learn how to apply the design process to guide decision-making in one’s personal and professional life.
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Designing Digital Collaboration
Explore the nuances of how to maintain positive relationships in remote working environments and the ways in which our digital behaviors must be modified to meet our social needs in online, creative teams.
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Power Trip: The Ethics of Designers’ Creator Bias
Workshop participants will try to find parallels to government, medicine, engineering, and literature in hopes of crafting a code of ethics that strikes the right balance of utility and artistry for digital design at scale.
Thursday, Nov. 9
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Integrating Public Arts Into the Media Sphere
Participants will learn best practices for launching a global creative practice in art and media, hear success stories from international and local new media artists, and discover how they might partner with the City of Austin.
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Integrating Public Arts Into the Media Sphere
Participants will learn best practices for launching a global creative practice in art and media, hear success stories from international and local new media artists, and discover how they might partner with the City of Austin.