DesignMeets

Tomorrow! 🔔 Join this interactive session with Wina Smeenk as she guides us step-by-step through her Co-Design Canvas tool, showing how to design with communities, organizations, and institutions—not just for them. 🔗 Tickets: eventbrite.ca/e/co-design-as…

Next week, we’ll be joined by co-design expert, Wina Smeenk, as we explore co-design as a framework, not just a method. Join us to learn the tools needed to turn empathetic insight into systemic change. We hope to see you there! 🎟️: eventbrite.ca/e/co-design-as…

Tonight’s the night! We’re excited to see you all for our first event of the year 💌 Want to join? 🔗 Limited tickets still available: eventbrite.ca/e/designmeets-…

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve partnered with @OCAD for a timely conversation on how design can more intentionally support the Love Economy— the essential yet often undervalued space where care, connection, and nurturing take place. Join us! 🎟️: eventbrite.ca/e/designmeets-…

DesignMeets is built for our community— and that starts with you. Take our anonymous survey and enter for a chance to win a free ticket to any 2026 DesignMeets event of your choice! The winner will be announced February 2. ✍️ Enter here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Let’s be honest: 2025 didn’t offer easy answers. But it did offer something better… perspective. A big thanks to everyone who joined us this year—on stage or in the audience. We hope to see you all in 2026 🎉 Read our 2025 reflection: designmeets.ca/ideas/2025-rec…

If there was one unspoken mantra running through our most recent panel, it was this: just because we can, doesn’t mean we should, and that’s exactly what makes this moment interesting. 🔗 Read the full event recap now: designmeets.ca/event-summarie…

“The role of Figma-make is not to design but to document design. Its role is not to innovate. So teach systems design thinking— the tools will come.” – Patrick Bach

“When they introduce AI power tools, we need to consider, as designers, what have we lost? What do we lose when we gain synthetic responses? Don’t forget who we are designing for — humans.” – Kem-Laurin Lubin

“It’s about a process and finding efficiencies in my process of Transcription, Reporting, Research and Synthesis. It about helping me make connections I wouldn’t normally make and about getting me there more efficiently.” – Alex Ryan

“From a practitioner lens: the challenges I see is the real lack of an understanding of human-centered design — UX is not just the top levels of design. It’s about questioning the systems in which we operate.” – Stefanie Hutka

Due to popular demand, we’ve moved to a larger space! This means more tickets and more opportunity for meaningful conversation 💬 Join us! eventbrite.ca/e/designmeets-…

Join us November 19 for a conversation with industry experts as we notice, question, and reflect together on how AI is reshaping our practice. 🔗 Tickets & event info: designmeets.ca/events/designm…

Last week's event with Andrew McLuhan served less as a keynote and more as an excavation site. Every few minutes, he’d unearth another gem of media theory, brush it off, & invite us to sit with it a while. 🔗 Read the event recap: designmeets.ca/event-summarie…

Last night’s event was an empowering reminder that we, as creatives, have a unique ability to premeditate and create socio-cultural change. As McLuhan famously said, “artists are the antenna of the race” and last night’s event certainly proved that. Full recap coming soon 📩

Tonight’s the night! See you all soon 🎉 Grab one of the last tickets: eventbrite.ca/e/designmeets-… #DesignMeets #MarshallMcLuhan #McLuhan #DesignCommunity

Less than a week away! 📣 Join us this Monday, alongside Andrew McLuhan, as we unpack the ideas of Marshall McLuhan—what they mean, their lasting impact and how we can revisit them through a modern lens. 🔗 Tickets: eventbrite.ca/e/designmeets-…

DATE UPDATE 📣 Out of respect for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we have rescheduled our upcoming event to Monday, September 29—same time, same location. Full refunds will be honoured to those who can no longer attend.

Join us September 30 for a conversation with Andrew McLuhan, grandson of Marshall McLuhan, as we revisit McLuhan’s theories, what they mean, and how they can empower us to become proactive agents of social change. 🎟️ Tickets: eventbrite.ca/e/designmeets-…

On May 8, join us for a special screening of the documentary film, Design Canada, as we look to uncover how design has helped shape Canadian identity 🇨🇦 Tickets available here: eventbrite.ca/e/what-makes-c…