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JUL 31 – AUG 1 2026 / IDYLLWILD CA

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Fri, Jul 31

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PMClowning Workshop with Tufan NadjafiSpeakeasy (Outside)
  • 1:00 PM – 1:30 PMWhat Do You Mean by Design? with Nu GotehSpeakeasy (Inside)

    Design is everywhere; it is in the tools we reach for, the systems we move through, the stories we tell, and the experiences that quietly shape our days. We think we know what design is, until we try to define it. In a moment of climate crisis, inequality, and technological disruption, it's no longer enough to treat design as surface or style but to examine it as a practice that can both fuel harm and seed repair. If design both mirrors and shapes the world we live in, what role does it play in a time defined by change? In this talk, designer, artist, and cultural strategist Nu Goteh will open up the question at the heart of his practice: What do you mean by design? Drawing from work spanning community-centered research, branding, publishing, and social practice, Nu will explore design as cultural authorship, meaning-making, and a tool for intervening in the systems that organize our lives.

    Bio

    Nu Goteh is a designer, strategist, and educator who envisions conditions for communities to thrive. A 2025 National Design Award recipient for Emerging Designer, he is Co-Founder, Managing Partner, and Creative Director of Deem Journal and Founder and Principal of ROOM FOR MAGIC. His practice integrates design, culture, art, community, and social practice; he has worked with organizations including the Art for Justice Fund, Ford Foundation, World Peace Foundation, National Memorial for the Underground Railroad, Nike, and Google.

  • 1:45 PM – 2:15 PMSaarim ZamanSpeakeasy (Inside)
  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PMReady for the World with Vicki TanSpeakeasy (Inside)

    Ready for the World is about the restlessness that comes with a project waiting to be made, something we may dismiss as too personal, or not yet clear enough to work on. I'll talk about the years I spent exploring mine, and the illustrated book about decision-making that came out of it. My hope is that it moves something in you toward sensing you're already ready for yours.

    Bio

    Vicki Tan is a Taiwanese-American designer and author based in San Francisco. Her work explores how people make meaning through choice. Her illustrated book Ask This Book a Question reframes cognitive bias as a way to better understand how decisions unfold.

  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PMEntrepreneurs' TarotSpeakeasy (Outside)
  • 3:15 PM – 3:30 PMJohn Robson with House of PaperSpeakeasy (Inside)
  • 3:45 PM – 4:15 PMAI Psychosis with quasimatt & Macy GettlesSpeakeasy (Inside)
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PMQuantification is Death with Ruby J ThelotSpeakeasy (Inside)

    This talk examines how the cult of data is transforming bodies, objects, and experiences into measurable digital information. Moving from eighteenth-century calculation projects to wearables, AI companions, and the quantified self, the talk argues that technologies marketed as tools of care often replace embodied knowledge with dashboards, optimization, and control. It ultimately proposes a happier cyborgian future organized around rhythm, play, presence, and exploration rather than relentless measurement.

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    Ruby Justice Thelot is a designer, cyberethnographer, and artist based in New York. He is an adjunct professor of Design and Media Theory at New York University and founder of the award-winning creative research and design studio 13101401 inc.

  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PMBapari (DJ set)Butterfield
  • 6:45 PM – 7:00 PMClip Art (Jona from YACHT)Butterfield
  • 7:45 PM – 8:45 PMKim GordonButterfield
  • 9:00 PM – 12:00 AMLAN PartyFerro