The Mars/
querade Ball
Experience a one-night-only journey through immersive design, art, and culture-building stations—culminating in a Mars-inspired masquerade party.
🚨 This is not a lecture. It’s a culture remix. And it starts with you—on the dance floor.
Friday, April 11
Open Bar
Good Music
Cool People
Hot Takes
7p | Doors Open
7.3p | Chocolate Heads on the Moon
8p | Orbit Hour
9p | The Mars/querade Ball
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💃🏾 Chocolate Heads on the Moon – Live, immersive dance and DJ set.
7:30pm
You will NOT want to miss this!
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🎤 The Pickle Jar – Design meets improv meets ethics.
Open from 8pm - 9pm
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📍 The Isle of Design – Wondering how to start with design? Begin here.
Open from 7pm - 10pm
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🍞 The Toast Bar – Break bread with someone new. Literally.
Open from 7pm - 10pm
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🎭 The Hot Pocket – Design a mask. Explore your shadow. Eat a snack.
Open from 7pm - 10pm
Satellite Sessions
Satellite Sessions are parties with a purpose at the Stanford d.school designed to relay inspiration, insight & opportunities from the universe of design through a spark of music & art.
Show, don’t tell
Watch this video to catch the vibe from a few of our Satellite Sessions over the years.
Simon Steele (SETI, Project Partner) & Miki Sode (How to Shoot for the Moon, Elective Program) connect with students at Planetary Citizenship Satellite Session.
Charlotte Burgess-Auburn (You Need a Manifesto, d.school guidebook) connects with Christine Jun (Design for Health Equity, Electives Program) at Climate Futures Satellite Session.
Madame Gandhi helps students get hands-on with how she uses music in her climate activism at the Climate Futures Satellite Session.
Seamus Yu Harte (Head of Learning Experience Design, Electives Program) facilitates a debrief at the Planetary Citizenship Satellite Session.
Debbie Senesky (How to Shoot for the Moon, Electives Program) how design work opportunities in the space industry help us improve life on Earth at the Planetary Citizenship Satellite Session.
L to R : Rick Griffith, Shannon Gatta, Jason Headley share design work opportunities inspired by the science, craft and art of space travel at the Planetary Citizenship Satellite Session.
Fionna Purcell (Arup) shares with student the design work complexities and opportunities in sustainable development at the Forbidden Design Satellite Session.
Ise Lyfe (Forbidden Design, Electives Program) connects with Frederik Pferdt (First & Former Chief Creative Evangelist, Google) at the Forbidden Design Satellite Session.
Students craft their own manifestos based on an activity from the d.school guidebook, You Need a Manifesto, at the Climate Futures Satellite Session.
People meet
at parties.
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Understand what design work opportunities look like in the real world
Apply new information and insights you receive at the session to existing work and studies
Analyze new information and insights from diverse points of view.
Evaluate new information and insights to better understand their own point of view
Create a piece of design work that expresses a new point of view
But if you’re looking for more reasons to come, then check out the reasons below. Or if you just want to see who you might meet, then keep scrolling.
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Understand what design work opportunities look like in the real world
Apply new information and insights you receive at the session to existing work and studies
Analyze new information and insights from diverse points of view.
Evaluate new information and insights to better understand their own point of view
Create a piece of design work that expresses a new point of view
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Understand what design work opportunities look like in the real world
Apply new information and insights you receive at the session to existing work and studies
Analyze new information and insights from diverse points of view.
Evaluate new information and insights to better understand their own point of view
Create a piece of design work that expresses a new point of view
