Shoshana Berger // Good Life Design is as Little Life Design as Possible

Join us Tuesday, October 13th at 5:30 PM for a talk with Shoshana Berger, writer, strategist, and cofounder of the Aged Intelligence Society. With a career spanning journalism, design, and storytelling, Shoshana has shaped how organizations communicate ideas that matter, from her leadership in marketing at IDEO to her role guiding content and communications at Notion. Her work sits at the intersection of design, culture, and meaning, exploring how we make sense of complex systems and, ultimately, our own lives. In her talk, Good Life Design is as Little Life Design as Possible, Shoshana will challenge the idea that every aspect of life needs to be optimized, engineered, or intentionally crafted. Drawing on her experiences across design, media, and writing, she will explore what it means to step back from constant self-improvement and instead create the conditions for a life that unfolds more naturally. Moving between themes of storytelling, technology, and mortality, she offers a perspective on how to navigate ambition, creativity, and constraint without overdesigning the human experience. Come ready to question the pressure to design everything, and consider what it might mean to leave more space for life to happen on its own terms. This event is free and open to the public.....................​Design Field Notes is a lecture series where we invite the public to the UC Berkeley campus for conversations with designers, makers and artists who are contributing to shaping the future through design.If you require accommodation for a disability for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Jacobs Institute staff at [email protected] with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.