#GivingTuesday is Tomorrow! Why does your Gift Matter? The Seattle Design Festival (SDF) is the region’s largest public design event celebrating and exploring all the ways design improves the quality of our lives. One of the key tenets of our work is to engage with under-invested communities empowering them to leverage design and our…
Who are we looking for? Volunteers looking to gain valuable leadership experience planning and producing the festival. The SDF core team requires members who are: Reliable, able to attend all core team meetings and deliver on commitments Collaborative, willing to step up and assist when needed Good communicators, willing to assist community partners in bringing…
Congratulations to SDF partners Wittman Estes and The Clean Hands Collective! Their projects, which were featured as part of SDF 2020: About Time, have been awarded Honorable Mentions at AIA Seattle’s 71st annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture. From 103 submittals, the jury chose 16 award winners from three categories – Built, Conceptual, and Research…
We are excited to highlight the recent work of one of our long-time festival partner, Diversity Roundtable (DRT)! Together, with Sawhorse Revolution, DRT completed their 2nd build project— Danny Woo Garden Shed. Project Team AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable committee attracts, retains, and empowers individuals of underrepresented backgrounds in the profession of architecture through scholarship, community…
The Seattle Design Festival explores ways that design serves the community it impacts, and how design can allow future generations and ecosystems to thrive. As part of SDF’s commitment to sustainability, each year we encourage all of our partners to plan for their installation’s afterlife. We ask them to partner with a local organization for…
The 2021 Seattle Design Festival (SDF) has come to a close, but the energy generated from gathering as a community is still palpable. It was so much fun seeing you all there, in person, after so many months of planning remotely. We saw over 6,400 people visit the Block Party! Thank you for being part of our community, and for letting us…