workshops, events, and the like
I spend a good deal of time and energy designing, organizing, and facilitating workshops, symposia, participatory lessons and the like through my employers, on behalf of the Design Futures Initiative + Speculative Futures Austin, and for varied Design and Arts organizations in Austin and abroad.
^ ~ photo courtesy Tyler Hobbs
- workshops, events, and the like
- present → futures
- 2022
- General Seminar 16 “The Generalist” feature
- Redefining Healthcare Delivery Solutions
- past
- 2021
- Dialogues with Design Dissolve Alumni Speaker
- Design Makes Futures for ADW ‘21
- Futures by Design Session 2+3 facilitation
- Speculative Futures Houston guest speaker
- Systems Thinking + Systemic Design guest lecture
- Speculative Futures Austin lead-organizing
- Z-Topia Season 3 Finale guest
- Speaking on how Design Makes Futures for The Guild of Working Designers organized by The Fountain Institute
- Futures by Design Session 1 facilitation
- Interviewed for the Beyond Aesthetics podcast
- 2020
- Transition Design Salon
- Z-Topia Season 2 Finale guest
- Guest on Z-TOPIA Ep.03
- Guest Zoom Lecture for a Design-Futures Graduate Seminar
- 2019
- Visiting Critic for the DES374 Fall '19 Final Critique
- Local Tech-Arts Network Power Mapping
- Design Charette Competition Advisor
- 2019 BMES Design Competition Judge
- ITD 101 Guest Lecturer
- Designing the PRIMER '18 Dynamic Identity
- 2018
- Visiting Critic for the DES374 Fall '18 Final Critique
- Communing Around Our Futures, and Nurturing a Futures Community
- Prototyping Images of the Future—Alternative Futures
- Design For Health - Interaction Design Lesson
- Design In Practice Event Series
- Adapted Design Sprint Workshops
- Design System Coffee Talks
- 2017
- Design Community Town Hall
- Design & AI: Defining Design's Place in the Midst of Intelligent Machines
- Design Thinking: Applying AI to Disaster Relief
- White-boarding for Design Challenges
- The future of AI Collaboration
- What's Design Thinking To You?
- Customer Value & Journey Mapping
- Embracing Ambiguity Through Design Thinking
- 2016
- RITE method Lecture + Workshop
- Prototyping Lecture + Workshop
present → futures
I'm usually more than happy to speak; live and remotely, facilitate, and advise at conferences, design weeks, in open academic settings, and as part of community events as my (a)vocational schedule allows.
2022
General Seminar 16 “The Generalist” feature
Featured in the Near Future Laboratory Podcast (at about 11min in) episode No27 - General Seminar 16 “The Generalist” having taken part in that General Seminar session in February
Redefining Healthcare Delivery Solutions
past
2021
Dialogues with Design Dissolve Alumni Speaker
Design Makes Futures for ADW ‘21
- spoke at ADW on Friday Nov 12th
Futures by Design Session 2+3 facilitation
- Session 2 in Summer (July)
- Session 3 in Autumn (October)
Speculative Futures Houston guest speaker
Systems Thinking + Systemic Design guest lecture
Speculative Futures Austin lead-organizing
- Design Futures event in April
- Systems + Futures events in July + August
- June
- July
Z-Topia Season 3 Finale guest
Speaking on how Design Makes Futures for The Guild of Working Designers organized by The Fountain Institute
Futures by Design Session 1 facilitation
Interviewed for the Beyond Aesthetics podcast
brought to us by The Fountain Institute
2020
Transition Design Salon
Z-Topia Season 2 Finale guest
Guest on Z-TOPIA Ep.03
Invited by my friend Phil Balagtas to be one of the guests on his webinar-format talk show ZTOPIA, where designers are invited to muse, speculate and poke at topics they’ve found on the internet. Each guest shares 2-3 articles to be discussed, mine are outlined on Notion.
Podcast Guest for ZTOPIA
5.08.20 _ virtually convened on Zoom
Guest Zoom Lecture for a Design-Futures Graduate Seminar
Invited by Tamie Glass as a guest lecturer for her graduate seminar 'This is Your Future: How Human Behavior Will Drive Design'.
Guest Lecture for ARI 350R | ARI 386M | ARC 386M Graduate Seminar
4.14.20 _ The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture _ Austin, TX
2019
Visiting Critic for the DES374 Fall '19 Final Critique
Invited to critique the primary artifacts of 3-4 students' Senior Capstone topics that will inform their work during the Exhibition section of their individual Capstone studies in the Spring '20 semester.
Guest Critic for DES374 Design Capstone Studio
12.9.19 _ The University of Texas at Austin School of Design & Creative Technology _ Austin, TX
Local Tech-Arts Network Power Mapping
I'm very excited to have been contacted by IRL @ MoHA, an artist-led incubator for creative experimentation with new technologies to design and facilitate a workshop on a topic of my choosing. I chose to focus on Network Mapping by way of adopting Beautiful Rising's Power Mapping methodology. I organized a workshop focused on mapping the local tech-arts ecosystem in Austin.
Workshop Design + Facilitation for IRL @ MoHA
9.25.19 _ MoHA _ Austin, TX
Design Charette Competition Advisor
Invited by QWELL to be an advisor at the The Austin Outpost Pop-Up Design Competition. This Design Charette competition and the broader Austin Outpost initiative intend to design a remarkable and cost-effective portable LGBTQIA+ community center (Austin Outpost Pop-Up) that can easily travel to various locations around Austin.
Competition Jury for "Austin Outpost” Pop-Up LGBTQIA+ Community Center
06.22.19 _ Texas Society of Architects _ Austin, TX
2019 BMES Design Competition Judge
Invited to be a judge at the 2019 BME Medical Device Design competition. The competition is challenge is to improve patient outcomes in the field of Geriatric medicine.
Competition Jury for Biomedical Engineering Society
04.27.19 _ UT Austin BME Building _ Austin, TX
ITD 101 Guest Lecturer
Invited by the Director of the Center for Integrated Design, Gray Garmon, to be the guest lecturer for the Prototyping lesson of the Introduction to Integrated Design course.
Guest Lecture for Introduction to Integrated Design
02.14.19 _ UT COFA _ Austin, TX'
Designing the PRIMER '18 Dynamic Identity
Invited to give a lightning talk to attendees at the Austin node of Processing Community Day on the process of leading the design of a generative identity for a conference.
Event Speaker; Lightning Talk for Processing Community Day @Austin
02.10.19 _ dadageek HQ _ Austin, TX
2018
Visiting Critic for the DES374 Fall '18 Final Critique
Invited to critique the primary artifacts of 5 students Senior Capstone topics that will inform their work during the Exhibition section of their individual Capstone studies in the Spring '19 semester.
Guest Critic for DES374 Design Capstone Studio 12.10.18 _ The University of Texas at Austin School of Design & Creative Technology _ Austin, TX
Communing Around Our Futures, and Nurturing a Futures Community
This month's Future In/Out is a conversation between Speculative Futures Ottawa and Speculative Futures Austin, Texas. Adam (chapter organizer of Speculative Futures Austin) and Luisa (chapter organizer of Speculative Futures Ottawa) will have a conversation on what inspired them to foster a futures community and why is it important to do so at a local level.
Event Speaker @ Future In/Out #2 11.14.18 _ Rebel.com Office _ Ottawa, ON Canada, remotely from Austin, TX
Prototyping Images of the Future—Alternative Futures
An introduction to the nascent discipline of Speculative Design, explored in the context of an informal, participatory workshop employing the Ethnographic Experiential Futures (EFF) approach to Foresight.
Workshop Design + Facilitation
10.24.18 _ ACC _ Austin, TX for Austin Design Week 2018
11.08.18 _ Capital Factory _ Austin, TX
Design For Health - Interaction Design Lesson
A lecture for the Fall 2018 ITD 390: DESIGN FOR HEALTH graduate course. Teaching 3rd year Medical Students what Ix, UX, and UI Design are, how they differ, how they relate, and how they relate to Health Care.
Lesson Design + Instruction
10.29.18 _ UT Austin Health Discovery Building _ Austin, TX
Design In Practice Event Series
Organizing, designing, and facilitating tactically focused events and workshops as a part of the 2018 fresh2design Continued Learning event series.
Event Organization + Design + Facilitation
w/ Sanjay Shah and Candice Digby
02.12.18 _ General Assembly, Austin, TX
w/ Alex Price, and Vaishnavi Kumar
07.17.18 _ RetailMeNot, Austin, TX
Adapted Design Sprint Workshops
Organizing, designing, and facilitating Innovation, Disruption, and Discovery Workshops to kick off new work streams at MU/DAI leveraging the Google Ventures Sprint methodology.
Workshop Design + Facilitation
run on my own or with Erica Ryan and rotating members of the MU/DAI team in Austin, TX
2018: 01.24.18, 01.25.18, 02.07.18, 05.08.18, 06.18.18
2017: 05.17.17, 05.31.17, 06.14.17, 07.17.17, 09.06.17, 09.12.17, 10.27.17, 12.13.17
Design System Coffee Talks
Organizing and Facilitating group discussions focused on Design Systems on behalf of fresh2design in order to grow a community of practice in Austin.
Symposium Organization + Facilitation
10.27.17 @ Brew n Brew11.17.17 @ Cenote (Cameron Rd)12.15.17 @ Whole Foods w/ the Mozilla Firefox Photon Design System team
1.26.18 @ Native Hostel w/ members of the projekt202 Technology team
2.23.18 Tool Talk: Abstract @ T3 w/ Josh Butner
3.30.18 @ Wellspring4.27.18 @ HomeAway w/ the HomeAway Foundations Team
5.25.18 @ Rackspace w/ the Rackspace Helix Design System Team
7.6.18 @ Native Hostel8.3.18 @ HomeAway w/ the HomeAway Foundations Team
9.7.18 @ USAA w/ the USAA Design Language System Team
10.5.18 @ Tillery Kitchen & Bar w/ guests from Indeed's Design System team
11.2.18 @ IBM w/ the Carbon Design System team
2017
Design Community Town Hall
Designing and Facilitating a Town Hall style experience where members of the Design community in Austin can gather to express how fresh2design can better serve them in a guided, outcome-oriented manner.
Workshop Design + Facilitation
w/ Mae Reed for Austin Design Week
11.09.17 @ Cheer Up Charlies
Design & AI: Defining Design's Place in the Midst of Intelligent Machines
Designing and Facilitating a speculative workshop focused on positing a distinction between Generalized AI & Applied AI, and defining Design's role in the future and future-present of 'AI'.
Workshop Design + Facilitation
w/ Jannis Hegenwald for Austin Design Week
11.09.17 @ Atlassian
Design Thinking: Applying AI to Disaster Relief
This series of workshops generated $240 in donations for Hurricane Harvey relief. All proceeds & donations from these workshops were donated to the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Organizing, Designing, and Facilitating a Design Thinking workshop series focused on applying AI to disaster relief.
Workshop Design + Organization + Facilitation
09.21.17 - for AMA-Austin _ Microsoft Store in The Domain Austin, TX
09.27.17 - for CTxWFS _ Capitol Factory, Wall-E Room Austin, TX
White-boarding for Design Challenges
An educational session at General Assembly for UX Intensive graduates that provided an overview of how to approach white-boarding when working on Design Challenges as part of the interview process.
Workshop Design + Facilitation
w/ Mike Townson, William Yarbrough, and Nicole Umphress
06.13.17 _ Austin, TX
The future of AI Collaboration
Speculative Futures workshop for the Design House Designing The Future Self event at Atmosphere Coworking.
Workshop Design + Facilitation
03.30.17 _ Austin, TX
What's Design Thinking To You?
Contextual Design Thinking workshop for fresh2design at Byron & Blue focused on helping participants uncover what Design Thinking means to them in relation to their design process.
Workshop Design + Organization + Facilitation
03.06.17 _ Austin, TX
Customer Value & Journey Mapping
Customer Value Mapping + Customer Journey mapping workshop for Dell's Global Support & Deployment Product Group Executive Team offsite at projekt202.
Workshop Facilitation
02.23.17 _ Austin, TX
Embracing Ambiguity Through Design Thinking
Vanilla Design Thinking workshop for a Creative Mornings Field Trip at projekt202.
Workshop Design + Organization + Facilitation
02.03.17 _ Austin, TX
2016
RITE method Lecture + Workshop
A lecture and short workshop for Jacek Gwidzka's Human Computer Interaction course at the UT Austin Graduate School of Information.
Workshop Design + Facilitation
w/ Jannis Hegenwald, Alan Koda, and Rae Gibbs
10.27.16 _ Austin, TX
Prototyping Lecture + Workshop
A lecture and short workshop for Jacek Gwidzka's Human Computer Interaction course at the UT Austin Graduate School of Information.
Workshop Design + Facilitation
w/ Jannis Hegenwald, Alan Koda, and Rae Gibbs
10.19.16 _ Austin, TX