The Design Edge: Reimagining Climate Action

Join us for an inspiring conversation where we explore the frontiers of climate innovation through design. This exclusive San Francisco Design Week roundtable brings together four leaders who are pioneering solutions to environmental challenges through creative approaches to materials, behavior change, and perception.

Discover how how innovators are creating tangible solutions at the intersection of design and climate action. Through their work, they explore a critical superpower in the climate crisis: making sustainable solutions not just viable but desirable. Together we’ll examine how design thinking can transform complex climate initiatives into compelling experiences that drive adoption and inspire change.

FORMAT:

• Introductions
• 5-7 minute presentations
• Discussion and Q+A

PRESENTERS:

• Julia Marsh – Co-founder and CEO of Sway, transforming seaweed into innovative packaging materials that replace single-use plastics with regenerative alternatives designed to work in harmony with natural ecosystems
• Natalia Kowaleczko – Founder and Creative Director of Pact Studio, reimagining sustainability initiatives and technologies through strategic design and visual narratives that amplify impact and adoption
• Baillie Mishler – Founding Industrial Designer of PROWL Studio, bringing products, research and storytelling to life through a ‘We Begin with the End™’ ethos, an earth-centered framework, strategic collaboration, and by placing materials at the center of development.