Are there any designers in the Bay Area that would be interested in starting something to explore/practice design beyond the approaches we might typically take in the tech industry? Here’s some context to supplement this question:

I finished 'Designing Design' by Kenya Hara this year, and it demonstrated a juxtaposition to how I was brought into design—specifically digital product design. At a high-level, we tend to employ ideas of design thinking to identify problems that address revenue-based goals.

Compare that against some of the philosophies and work depicted in Hara's book, wherein he and other designers explore ideas based on how they activate our senses…

Or against the goal of understanding just how little we know about something (Hara calls this the process of making the known unknown)...

Anyway, I think it could be fun to start a design club, for lack of a better term, that explores our discipline in ways that likely aren’t encouraged in our day jobs. And I think it’d be great to start that with some other similarly-curious folks!

Love this! I’m not in the Bay Area, sadly

Thanks!!