Seattle Design Festival 2021
Lake Union Park 860 Terry Avenue N, SeattleThe 2021 Seattle Design Festival is Emerging! As the summer of 2021 is coming into focus we are excited to move into this Festival season with optimism and hope....
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The 2021 Seattle Design Festival is Emerging! As the summer of 2021 is coming into focus we are excited to move into this Festival season with optimism and hope....
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...
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...
Team: producer and curator Megan Harmon, graphic designer Jordan Grant, contractor Estee Clifford, and artists Nikita Ares, Stevie Shao, Colleen Louise Barry, and Mary Anne Carter Limelight spotlights four emerging...
Create a paper boat, with personal sentiments tucked safely inside. Once complete, you’ll set your boat – and your thoughts – free.
Team: Janie Bube, Nakisa Dehpanah, Dena Aghazadeh Communication Unmasked is an installation that features a web of masks to represent the burdens on communication we are shedding as we EMERGE...
This structure will tell the story of Latinx placemaking in Seattle through traditional Latinx crafts reimagined to be inclusive for all in our community.
Monophases in an interactive time capsule that captures the emergence of a new era of hybrid creativity. Cataloguing our pandemic passion projects that took place in solitude and led to cultivating hope in virtual vestibules, Monophases is the story of how the world changed and creativity lead the way.
As we rejoin the physical public sphere, we ask: What does it mean to communicate, on a human level? In this installation we invite two strangers to have an intimate conversation, confiding in each other without ever seeing one another.
"What do you need to THRIVE?" is the question we asked when we took art supplies into the community to listen- and bear witness- to people's stories of "home" and "homelessness." We did not set out to become housing developers- but that is what has EMERGED. ecoTHRIVE Housing is committed to creating beautiful, affordable, resident-owned villages that build community and human resilience- and joy!- as we adapt to an ever-changing world and shifting climate. Let’s talk about how we can bring all of our passion, compassion, and brilliance together to create the future we want to live into. Join us!
Team: Isabella Ceriale, Isabella Gaule, Sophia Johnson, Peyton Todd, Charmaine Yabut There’s no denying that the past year and a half has been tough. From losing loved ones to being...
An interactive and evolving papier-mâché framework to foster dialogue and guide the future of ARCADE magazine.
Team: Julia Bruk, Debra Webb, Laara Garcia, Anna Czoski, Wolf Erickson, and Vancouver Mural Festival Future Arts presents Augment Your Block! A showcase of physical/digital interactive Augmented Reality sculptures, featuring...
A panoramic, wrap-around collage of Seattle neighborhoods is presented as a line drawing, stripped of color and content. Participants are encouraged to draw, color and write anywhere and everywhere, filling in blank store signs, populating buildings with new residents, and adding new public spaces and amenities, describing what they feel the city needs.
Movement through the installation represents leaving behind a long and isolating year and the opportunity to envision and build a thriving world together going forward.
Team: Mahlum Architects, Hoffman Construction Company Explore a wandering path punctuating time and space. Move through a series of vertical gardens, animated by simple repeating objects. At main welcome boards,...
Labyrinth is an experience grasping at senses and a journey perpetuated by emotion and mental health. Join us as we explore how we can emerge better together.
Emergence can be an act of celebration so let's dance and make some music together! A chorus of abstract inflatable figures has gathered here; high five an inflatable to add a new instrument to the soundtrack or change the bean and wiggle along with your new friends.
LiteHouse Shelters creates more than sleeping spaces for homeless villages or backyard sheds, we are creating and designing insulated construction panel systems to build tiny village spaces. Please come to discover our tiny home panels and our tinier scale model village made by bending craft sticks.
Team: Ben Larson, Bryan Lammers, Darrell Turner, David Fields, Denis Blount, Edward Gibbons, Erik Heironimus, Kevin Aswegan, Lauren Beuris, Leah Guszkowski, Loren Supp, Marjorie Chang Fuller, Marshall Turner As a...
A Meaningful Balance is a calibrated disk that allows users to take different positions based on their comfort with regard to distance and contact. The 12’ diameter plywood surface and...
Travel through a covered gallery/pathway of multi-colored & patterned blocks, where you can use art materials to share your Summer of 2021 thoughts about relationships and uses of space.
Passage represents the process of emerging, an invitation to transformation carried through a sequence of space. The Passage is experienced as a channel that questions how the built environment, often encountered as a static object, can be reimagined as an alive and active form. It is an invitation to consider how design can speak to the life infused within the structures we inhabit and how designers can transform their practices to employ the full spectrum of living materials in the spaces and places we create.
Kaleidospace is an experience of contemplation, reflection, and adaptation. Through the last year, we all embarked on a journey of change and uncertainty. Our installation mimics the personal and wonderous safe space we all created during last year, and from which we have Emerged transformed.
Bloomhouse is an interactive installation designed to symbolize the enclosures we have experienced throughout quarantine while asking visitors to reflect on how we can emerge from this time in a new, better light.
Through the deconstruction of the old ways, a new way emerges from it.
A physical and virtual photo board tells the story of human resilience and the memories we built throughout the year to mark a passage of time and capture the ways in which we emerged stronger.
The Block Party lounge will be designed by Mithun in collaboration with the local non-profit Sawhorse Revolution. The table and seating in the Pop-Up Zone have been designed to be...
You know what they say: distance makes the heart grow fonder. But really: Does socially/physically distancing ourselves make us fonder of where we live? As we dust off our social lives...
Team: James Brandalise Have you always wanted to use professional woodworking tools to build something with your peers? Then join us in building a community sculpture using hammers, drills, screws,...
Team: Hannah Rudin and Rosie Sabaric We know that all of 2021 will be about re-emergence in many different ways. We are re-emerging into the public spaces around us and...
Team: Mindy Lehrman Cameron, Hannah Elias, Isa Lichtenberg, Isa Overstreet, Jeweliana Romero, Amelia Rurey, Emma Siple Join the graduating class and rising senior students in the Interior Architecture Department at...
Visit us to learn recycling tips and how artists in the Recology AIR Program transform recyclables into art. Recology will have provide various examples and the opportunity for you to...