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*This event is open to current NYU students, staff, or faculty only.*
Join our guest, Samar Younes, Founder & CCO of Samaritual & previously at Showfields, for a multi-disciplinary workshop to explore the concept of Third Places & their importance in community building through design concept development & AI's role in co-creating connections. Participants will intertwine Midjourney, an AI program that creates images from text prompts, & physical prototyping materials, ranging from paper to clay, to stimulate imagination & creativity, with an emphasis on wellbeing, neuroaesthetics, & community. Please bring a laptop to participate!
As a visionary artist, Samar seamlessly blends art, culture, innovation, & wellbeing through her multidisciplinary approach to design & storytelling. With over two decades of experience at the forefront of her field, she has established herself as a leader in the realm of creativity & innovation. As the founder of Samaritual, a research & design consultancy that seamlessly integrates art, culture, & wellbeing, she is dedicated to fostering a more interconnected future through the celebration of diversity & inclusivity.
With a diverse array of clients & collaborators, including Coach, Loro Piano, Anthropologie, Colette, Reed Krakoff, Barneys, Disney, American Express, Samsung, & Mastercard, Samar advises & guides luxury & start-up brands in defining their identity & building social & cultural campaigns & environments. A graduate of Central Saint Martins with a background in architecture, visual communication, & scenography, Samar has received numerous design awards & serves on the editorial advisory board of VMSD. She is a frequent speaker, educator, & juror in the design, innovation, & creative circles, recently serving as a juror for the Frame Awards 2023 & a speaker at NYU's Technology, Culture & Society department & Future Forward Chicago.
Design Week 2023 is a series of events centered around Connection & Community Through Design. Today, our world is overloaded with ever-increasing digital interactions that have the potential to inhibit physical connections; we're hoping to critically examine the ability of these emerging technologies to connect us together in new & exciting ways. We believe that engineers, artists, urban planners, social workers, & designers alike must come together to create holistic, real-life solutions across all scales & design with the future in mind. Throughout Design Week 2023, we will work to answer the following question: how can we leverage emerging technologies to help us build & strengthen human connections?
*This event is open to all current NYU student, staff, & faculty & will take place in-person at the NYU MakerSpace EventSpace, located in the Tandon School of Engineering on the Brooklyn campus.*
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