About the program
Presented by Mobile Makers, the Design Summit for Friends of Friends is an interdisciplinary and intergenerational event that brings together like-minded designers for meaningful conversations about leveraging design to create positive change. The summit helps unify the design community, encourages genuine conversations about equity in the built environment, amplifies the work of diverse designers who have not received sufficient credit or recognition, and creates opportunities for connection among established creatives, emerging creatives, and teenagers interested in design as a future career. The multi-day event, September 26-28, culminates in a party to celebrate the amazing work being done by designers and change-makers.
Today’s roster of speakers includes 2025 Biennial participants Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Arhitecture Think Tank. Cruz and Nathalie will share their work surrounding design experiments and new curricula that support public engagement with built, destroyed, and imagined environments.
