Inheriting San Francisco
Date & Time:
Friday, April 17, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:
San Francisco Art Fair Theater
Moderated by William Hanley (Dwell), Inheriting San Francisco brings together stage curator and designer Anand Sheth (Studio Anand Sheth), and artists Chibuzor Darl-Uzu (Untildef Studio), and Damaso Mayer (Estudio Material) for a conversation rooted in the materials and ideas behind this year’s SF Art Fair stage installation. Together they will discuss how emerging designers in San Francisco are responding to displacement, limited resources, and shifting cultural infrastructure through collaboration, reclaimed materials, and new forms of creative stewardship.
Anand Sheth (Studio Anand Sheth)
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Chibuzor Darl-Uzu (Untildef Studio)
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Chibuzor “Buz” Darl-Uzu is a Bay Area designer, fabricator, and materials-focused artist whose work spans furniture, installation, and public space intervention. With a background in materials science and an MFA in Design from California College of the Arts, he explores how reclaimed and everyday materials can be transformed into objects that invite rest, play, and belonging.
Working through his studio, untildef, Darl-Uzu creates projects that challenge hostile urban design and rethink who public space is for. His practice combines material experimentation, fabrication, and cultural critique, often drawing from informal making, reuse, and urban life in San Francisco and Oakland. His work moves between sculptural furniture, social practice, and experimental design, with an emphasis on care, access, and participation.
Damaso Mayer (Estudio Material)
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Founded in San Francisco CA, Estudio Material is a creative practice led by Mexico City-born artist and designer Damaso Mayer. His work is rooted in a diverse background spanning industrial design, architecture, and landscape architecture.
Growing up in a world of contrasts, Damaso lived on a working organic farm run by his mother, where he developed a profound connection to nature’s cycles and processes. At the same time, his father’s metal gasket fabrication facility exposed him to the precision and ingenuity of industrial production.This unique upbringing shaped Damaso’s creative ethos, fostering a deep appreciation for both the organic and the manufactured.
His artistic practice is defined by an exploration of often overlooked materials, with a particular fascination for the raw, the found, and the industrial.With a focus on sustainable practices and material exploration, Estudio Material reimagines conventional design by celebrating the beauty and potential of materials in their most authentic forms.