Are you an event organizer? A convener of people? Or maybe you’re a strategic thinker, supporting a team or external parties? Maybe you’re designing a new product, digital, physical, an experience?
Said yes to one of the above? This workshop is FOR YOU 🫵🏽 AND YOU SHOULD COME!
Design begins before arriving at an event or before you shake a hand and introduce yourself. Join us to find out how empathy is significant to the design thinking process. We welcome designer Verónica Ayala Flores along with Design Gym founder + head coach Erike H. De Veyra, Assoc. AIA, SEED.
No doodads/pieces will be made, this is purely a session to get to know process and tools.
ABOUT OUR DESIGNERS
Verónica M. Ayala-Flores firmly believes in everyone's ability to participate in a greater conversation; one that affects the way we live, and the pursuit to improve it. For over a decade, in both volunteer and professional capacities, she has been facilitating collaborations, organizing, developing strategies, leading creative initiatives, and building the skills of leaders to advance social transformation.
Erike De Veyra, designer, project manager, and founder/head coach of Design Gym, demystifying design to designers of all ages and levels through tools, activities, workshops, experiences, and providing expertise to increase access and representation in the design industry. Erike uses (her twenty years) of training and experience in architecture to design and develop initiatives, public programs, and experiences for clients and the design curious.
Age Requirement: All ages, any youth should be accompanied by a grown up
Design Level: [take the quiz!] Ranging from curious, enthusiast, converted + professional
Design Discipline/Interest: all design, service design, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, community engagement
Our 101 Series is a beginner-style design demonstration. No doodads are made, only learning.
Learn and work through the design process with Head Coach and Founder Erike, and try out tools, sometimes alongside a guest designer or expert.
No doodads/pieces will be made; this is purely a session to understand the process and tools.
Registration includes designer(s) introductions, design thinking process, and live demonstration of tools alongside expert(s), and light refreshments.
OPEN TO ALL adult and youth designers.
Prior design experience is not required
Leave with skills, knowledge + appreciation