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.
Special Sessions
Jan. 10 + 11
How to Make Art Work
Join us on Friday, January 10th and Saturday, January 11th at the Stanford d.school to explore how we might make art work across industries, by applying the Art Thinking method.
A weekend of exploration with the Art Thinking Method
Art Thinking is an agile method designed to generate improbable perspectives and break free from undesirable trends. It revolves around six key practices: donate, deviate, destroy, drift, dialogue, and display—each rooted in concepts and examples from art, science, and business.
Developed by Professor Sylvain Bureau at ESCP Business School Paris in collaboration with visual artist Pierre Tectin, this method is taught through a seminar where participants create a piece of art that they show during a vernissage opened to the public and organized in art galleries or museums like Centre Pompidou or Le Louvre museum.
The format improved over the span of more than ten years as dozens of facilitators and hundreds of participants from leading companies and MBA programs have been involved in it.
Avenues of Exploration
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How to make art work for you as a machine learning engineer visualizing the biases embedded in artificial intelligence systems?
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How to make art work for you as a fashion designer pushing the boundaries of sustainable couture to critique fast fashion’s environmental toll
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How to make art work for you as a startup founder using creative provocations to challenge traditional business paradigms?
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How to make art work for you as an urban planner illustrating the invisible connections between city infrastructure and ecological resilience?
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How to make art work for you as a public policy strategist reframing the narrative on civic engagement in an age of disinformation?
Fri. 7p - 10p
How to Make Art Work
Live music, food, and an introduction to the Art Thinking method! Meet the founders of the Art Thinking method, along with artists, entrepreneurship professors, and VCs seeking to leverage art and creativity across industries. Join us for a fun-filled Satellite Session hosted at the Stanford d.school to kick off the weekend!
Sat. 9a - 7p
The Art Thinking Sprint
Select students will have the opportunity to learn the Art Thinking method from Stanford and ESCP Paris faculty. Students will work towards building art pieces within one of the five themes: fashion, sustainability, AI, entrepreneurship, and government.
It is intense but absolutely unique: this may be the first time and the last time of your entire life that you will show a piece of art during an art opening!
Sat. 7p - 9p
The Vernissage
Students will have the opportunity to present their art pieces to investors, founders, artists, students, professors, and members of the Stanford/Bay Area community. Some of these art works may be exhibited at other occasions in art galleries or museums in the US or in Paris! Since these pieces are yours, you can also sell them!
A gallery of images from other Art Thinking workshops hosted around the world.
A short video summarizing the value of art thinking.
In radical collaboration with
feat.
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Alex Jones
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Arshia Mehta
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Ben Voyer
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Christophe Bruno
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Chuck Eesley
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Emile Kirsch
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Louie Montoya
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Miki Sode
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Scott Hartley
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Seamus Yu Harte
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Susie Chang
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Sylvain Bureau
Show, don’t tell
Watch this video to catch the vibe from a few of our Satellite Sessions over the years.
Make art*
*the Spark
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.