MULTIMEDIA DAY: Designing Multimedia Experiences
Sunday, September 20, 2026, 1:00 PM PDT – 9:00 PM PDT
401 B St, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Hosted by Design Forward Alliance
Multimedia Day: San Diego Design Week 2026 🗓️ Sunday, September 20, 2026 🕕 1:00–9:00 PM 📍 401 B Street, San Diego, CA 🎟️ Free Admission 🚗 Parking: $15 All-Day Parking On-Site WHAT IT IS Multimedia Day is a full-day creative gathering exploring how storytelling, technology, design, content, and experience are shaping the way we create, communicate, and connect. Hosted in Downtown San Diego, the day brings together creators, designers, filmmakers, artists, founders, technologists, and curious minds for a mix of live conversations, workshops, screenings, interactive experiences, content creation, and community connection. Move through the day at your own pace. Join a panel, try a workshop, explore projection and immersive media, step in front of the camera, discover new creative tools, meet local makers, and stay for evening programming. It’s designed to feel less like a conference and more like a creative playground. WHO IT'S FOR Creatives, designers, artists, filmmakers, media professionals, builders, founders, technologists, storytellers, students, and anyone curious about where creativity and technology are heading next. Whether you work in multimedia every day or simply want to experience what’s next, come curious. OUR PROGRAMMING All Programming Located at: 401 B Street, 14th Floor Required: Must show registration QR code to enter building 1:00 - 6:00 PM | Bossity Content + Podcast Pop-Up Where: Breakout Room B Host: Bossity, Nova Renay Step into the Bossity pop-up studio for short-form conversations, interviews, creator content, and recorded discussions with members of San Diego's creative community. 1:00 - 2:00PM | The Vessel: An Activation for Designing the Inner Conditions for Creativity Where: 401 B St, Breakout Room A Host: Leila Astarabadi A multi-sensory workshop exploring how attention, perception, and the nervous system shape creativity. Through sound, breath, movement, embodied awareness, and guided subconscious experience, participants shift from analytical thinking into a more receptive creative state. 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Visualize Your Future: San Diego Office of Anticipation Workshop Where: Workshop Room Host: Keil Eggers A participatory futures-thinking workshop exploring how we can move from the challenges of today toward the futures we want to create. Participants will work backward from imagined outcomes, identify possible pathways forward, and explore how emerging tools and immersive technologies can help us visualize possible futures. 1:30 - 3:00 PM | Film Screenings + Q&As Where: Stage Featuring: Meditations of the Deep Sea and Threshold A rotating showcase of film, moving image, experimental storytelling, and immersive media presented throughout Multimedia Day. Wireless headphones allow guests to step into screenings while other programming continues around them. 3:00 - 4:00 PM | TouchDesigner Workshop Where: Workshop Room Host: Benjamin Guerrette, Ten Six Pines An introduction to TouchDesigner, the node-based visual development platform used for interactive installations, live visuals, projection mapping, performances, and immersive experiences. 4:00 - 5:00 PM | From Craft to Company: The Creator Economy Panel Where: Stage Moderator: Nova Renay This conversation brings together creators, studio founders, agency leaders, and entrepreneurs to discuss the transition from making the work to building the systems, teams, audiences, and businesses that allow creative careers to grow. 5:00 - 6:00 PM | Designing Moments That Move People: Experiential Design Panel Where: Stage Moderator: Catherine Eng This interdisciplinary conversation explores how designers create moments people don't simply see — but feel, navigate, remember, and participate in. 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Design Week Closing Party: DJ Silent Disco + Multimedia Mixer Location: Stage Host: Design Forward Alliance We are closing out Multimedia Day, and San Diego Design Week, with music, projections, creative community, and a DJ silent disco overlooking Downtown San Diego. Wireless headphones transform the space into a shared audiovisual experience and bring the week to an energetic close. 8:00 - 9:00 PM | Human Made: A Projection Exhibition Location: Outside 401B at California Theatre Host: OurWorlds Human Made transforms Multimedia Day into an open-air gallery of large-scale projected artwork celebrating the enduring human impulse to imagine, create, and shape the world around us. Selected works from designers, artists, architects, students, studios, and creative technologists explore what it means to create in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. WHAT TO EXPECT Multimedia Day is intentionally designed as a flexible, evolving experience. Throughout the day you can: Attend panels, workshops, and screenings Experiment with emerging creative technologies Meet designers, artists, filmmakers, creators, and technologists Explore interactive and multimedia work Record content at the Bossity Podcast Pop-Up Grab food and…