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Present at the booth was Joy Jacobson who works for the City of Seattle and specializes in Accessibility Review for the City’s owned and leased projects. She works with the city to ensure that all city buildings and properties like libraries and parks are designed and built to be accessible. – Presented by Queena Stone, AIA Seattle Travel Scholarship RecipientNo one can predict the future, but anyone can shape it – So let’s inspire people to rethink the way we live / age and discover how shared living /cohousing can help solve some of our biggest challenges.
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In a part of Seattle undergoing intense redevelopment, the annual festival explored urban design and its implications through interactive activities and art installations. Displays engaged visitors with Seattle’s future and relationships and connections in our communities. Another exhibit that should not be missed is the presentation of University of Washington Department of Architecture students’ designs for reestablishing housing diversity in Seattle.
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Instead they strategized over how to make the festival a more participatory experience and are largely pleased with the result. The Seattle Design Festival Block Party is a two-day street fair celebrating the powerful ways design affects our lives. This fun outdoor event is an opportunity for the design community and the public to come together and interact through large-scale design installations, performances, and design activities all centered around the Festival’s 2023 theme, CURIOSITY.
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The installations are designed to be enjoyed by people of all ages, sizes, and abilities. Over more than a decade, 120 community partners have participated in the event by building installations, hosting speakers, and creating hands-on activities — among other means of engaging the public with design. Here’s a snapshot of some of highlights from the 2021 festival that might be of particular interest for readers of The Urbanist. A full festival guide is available online at the Design in Public website. On average, we have over 100 program partners a year, including not only designers and their firms, but also community groups, nonprofit organizations, government partners, and students. The most successful proposals come out of partnerships between designers and community groups, creating lasting relationships that live on past the festival and spark change in our city moving forward.
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We envision a culture of design that fosters equitable, resilient, and thriving communities. The 2024 SDF Planning Team wants to highlight design conversations, skillshares, and in-person and online performances this year! You’ll still be able to catch all of the programs on the SDF YouTube channel, but you’ll also see some at our kick-off event. Back in fall of 2019, when the Seattle Design Festival (SDF) organizers chose “About Time” as SDF’s theme, the organizers made their selection based on the fact that 2020 marked festival’s tenth anniversary.
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The festival will bring together designers, architects, and creative thinkers to push the boundaries of the possible with more than 100 exciting exhibitions, 200 events and openings across the city. As one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest and longest running design events, SDF seeks to explore how we can leverage design in new ways to “explore the opportunities of adaptation and change.” As part of that process, the festival itself has adapted to changing times. In 2020, the festival pivoted to an online and socially distanced format; this year, however, organizers have chosen to transform the festival into a two-day street fair at Lake Union Park. The Festival is entirely a product of the people that are involved in it.
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Led by accessibility and universal design consultants, ‘Inclusive Perspectives’ tour participants will be led either one-to-one or in small groups with blindfolds and walking canes or seated in a wheelchair through the neighborhood. Guides will offer advice as the participants contend with the challenges that arise during their journey. Readers should also put festival’s Community Spotlight events on their radar. The Seattle Design Festival was founded in 2011 as a strategic initiative of AIA Seattle to promote public dialogue and community engagement about the role and impact of design in urban life.
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The booth featured proposals from various organizations that offered solutions for infrastructure in Pioneer Square, including the Polson and Western buildings or the Mutual Life building, originally erected in 1890. ⏰ Tuesday, August 22ndCultivating Empathy For Our Teammates – Presented by Dan HiesterSeasoned designers know soft skills are important, and studies show psychological safety encourages innovation, but putting this into practice is often surprisingly hard. This talk will give you some tools to feed your curiosity, so you can see your teammates in a more empathetic light.
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Near the entrance of the park, visitors were challenged to be “city planners for the day.” With simple post-it notes, residents wrote down their ideas and wishes for their neighborhoods and city organizing. This year, it also explores some of the city’s challenges, like the urban heat islands affecting residents disproportionately throughout the summer. The immersive installation, UNFOLD, presented by design firm Perkins+Will and GLY Construction, aims to help visitors visualize the ongoing issue of the heat island effect through long, flowing, coral drapes, proportionate to the experienced heat in Seattle’s neighborhoods. The 2023 Seattle Design Festival was August – exploring the them of CURIOSITY. The Call for Proposals were due May 25 – and we had over 90 partners engaging this year in 60+ installations, Pop-Up Experiences, Virtual Mainstage events and our Mixers. The Collaborative Design Swarm, hosted by ecoTHRIVE Housing, is one installation that should not be missed.
The Urbanist covered some of the designs recently in an article about the future of housing in Seattle, but visitors to the block party will be able to view the entire suite of their work. Per tradition, the festival will kick off with the Block Party, August 20-21, 10am-7pm, located at Lake Union Park next to the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). Visitors to the Block Party can expect to see many different installations and pop up exhibits created by design teams ranging from architectural firms to nonprofit youth organizations like Coyote Central. It’s time to get ready for the 12th annual Seattle Design Festival, which will be held August at locations across the city. Through a broad range of events developed by our community partners, we are able to engage a diverse cross-section of the people that live, work, and play in our city. SDF believes that design is for everyone, and its benefits should be accessible, intersectional, and informed by a diverse public.
The Seattle Design Festival is a platform for bold design conversations. We believe that design is for everyone and that inclusive co-design practices are essential to shaping an equitable Seattle. The Seattle Design Festival was founded in 2011 as a strategic initiative of AIA Seattle in order to promote a public dialogue about the role and impact of design on urban life.
Last year The Urbanist wrote about ecoTHRIVE Housing’s innovative model for creating affordable housing in Burien. The plan has continued to advance forward and this year organizers are looking to the public for inspiration on how to design for resilience in their community. The Seattle Design Festival (SDF), formerly known as Design in Public, was founded in 2011 to celebrate all the ways that design makes life better for Seattle, and to nurture relationships among multidisciplinary designers, civic leaders, business innovators, community organizers, educators, artists, and activists. Because of the organizers commitment to ingenuity, even with a pandemic and recession to contend with, SDF leadership remains optimistic that this year’s festival live up to people’s expectations for the ten-year anniversary. The festival showcases the connections of our city to the natural world, like the immersive art piece, “Underwater,” presented by Olson Kundig and Dowbuilt, or the Cabinet of CuriosiBees, by Site Workshop, inviting visitors to see Seattle through bees’ eyes and build homes for these threatened urban species.
• Prioritize the use of materials that can be donated to Festival partners. • Partner with a community organization who will take ownership of all or part of the installation after the Festival. Clifford Heberden (he/him) is a freelance journalist focused on the environment, climate and justice.
To see a complete list of events and activities go to the online calendar. Read on to learn more about programming and events recommended for readers of The Urbanist. Quinn-Smith mentioned the special importance of accessibility in the designs of the Wonderhoods. Another booth closer to the entrance of the park took the idea closer to home. Showing household items and amenities made through Universal Design, the exhibition started a discussion about ways for people to make homes and the urban environment inclusive and navigable for people of all abilities. On Sunday, August 20, the Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) opened an informational booth for office-to-residential conversions of downtown buildings, as a call to the public for ideas.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DesignMarch, Iceland's largest annual design festival, will turn the world's most northerly capital into a buzzing venue of creativity and innovation April 24-27. We encourage attendees to take advantage of public transit options but understand that you may need to travel by car. There are over 300 spaces available at the 320 Westlake pay lot, and several paid parking garages nearby. Guests who need to be dropped off can safely unload at the Pay by Phone parking lot directly in front of the Wagner Education Center. As Seattle looks to maximize its real estate for housing, the city is engaging with the public and private firms to find ways to make Downtown Seattle a vibrant and livable area.
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