Join members of the Festival Planning Team and our other amazing volunteers at the 2024 Seattle Art Fair! Get a sneak peek of what you can expect to experience at this year’s Festival and be one of the first to...
Join us @ the first gathering of SDF 2024 Partners and Volunteers Festival staff and organizers will be on hand to answer questions, and provide an overview of this year’s festival—expanding on the key themes explored by our program partners....
Join us August 17-22 We are thrilled to invite you to join us for 6 days of transformative programming, all designed to unleash the design thinker in everyone and to build more equitable and thriving communities through design. Mark your calendar-...
Team: Aaron Frease, Anais Adamska, Brena Daly, Libby Creim, Peggy Heim, William Bilyeu Built Installation Help shape your vision for Seattle! Plinko for Thoughts invites festival-goers to participate in shaping the future of Seattle through a community-based design effort. By...
Team: Trevor Dykstra, George Zatloka, Z Loh Built Installation Immerse yourself in a grove of inflatable stumps and logs that colorfully transform with your creativity. Engage with nature’s dialogue by responding in color, mirroring the vibrant language of the plants....
Built Installation What might be possible with a small plastic bottle? Big Orange Whale & The Whale Box invites thoughtful contemplation about the issue of the preeminent need to get massive amounts of polypropylene prescription vials out of the trash...
Built Installation What IF buildings were designed for everyone? Explore common spaces through the lens of people with various needs. Through an interactive game, you’ll be able to spot features that either help or hinder inclusion. Join the movement for...
The Seattle Design Festival kicks off with a Block Party at Lake Union Park! 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...
Team: Britta Johnson and Nina Vichayapai (Artist Co-Creators); Dre Avila, Samantha Keller, and Leslie Webster (Seattle Public Utilities); Julie Bassuk, Beth Batchelder, Laura Basile, Claire Farrington, Queenie Gipaya, and Chad Sharp (MAKERS); Anand Balasubrahmanyan and Molly Michal (Team Soapbox) Built...
Team: (MAKERS) Queenie Gipaya, Chad Sharp, Joey LoRocco, Laura Basile, Claire Farrington; (Contributing Artist) Edward Deas Built Installation What if we could harness the power of collective impact? Folding for the Future invites us to take part in a collaborative...
Team: Ozana Gherman, Nico Koppe Built Installation What if you were swallowed by a whale? Through a fully immersive sensory installation, Between Baleen (Buh·leen) explores the humbling scale of ocean life, paying respect to the greater ecosystem of our local...
Team: Sydney Lai, Kaitlyn Ellington, Aaliyah Diaz, Natanya Schwimmer Built Installation Experience Seattle with your eyes closed! Take some time to explore the city with your fingertips, take in the welcoming scent of coffee, and listen to the sounds of...
Team: Igor Draskovic, Derek Groves, Chelsea Flickinger, Jessi Lapano, Jonathan Teng, Kelsey Tyas, Kyle White Built Installation What if… we stopped relying on machines and the use of valuable energy resources for drying our clothes? An idyllic scene of clothing...
Team: Thomas Cheney, Julie Hale, Korben Mathis Built Installation What if we could design for survival? Bats in the Belfry – Bats are the only mammals capable of sustained flight. They consume over half their body weight in insects each...
Team: Alexander Guthrie, Victor Noordhoek Built Installation What if we could see the ripple effect of our social choices in real-time?. Work together at this installation to adjust sculptures and view them from the correct angle in order to gain...
Team: Aparna Pillai, Ben Anderson-Nelson, Brandusa Bularca, Colin Park, Dan Qin, Erik Mott, Jose Lorenzo-Torres, Josh Lewis, Laura Ovsak, Matt Alvarado, Mounica Guturu, Ryan Bussard, Valeria Masciotti, Yingjing Ma Built Installation What if the built environment was reimagined as a...
Team: Olivia Webster, Sarah Kang, Logan Dolezal Built Installation What if your environment reacted to personal and community needs? The interCONNECTION Pavilion allows users to interact with “puzzle pieces” to develop different spatial experiences. Curated configurations of elements encourage play,...
Team: Mary Hertz, Designer. Kathy Jeffers, Co-Designer. Built Installation What If Mermaids Do Exist? Come wag her tail and move the waves around her. See her hair blow in the wind and imagine yourself pursuing your own “what if” question....
Team: Keerthana Venugopalan Built Installation Experience Oli, an interactive musical installation that invites you to create music and connect with people and places around you. By simply moving your hands around Oli, you can create delightful tunes and experience the...
Team: Alderik Gastmans, Maria De Jesus Arevalo-Martinez, Corey Smith, Craig Skipton, Daniel Ratkus, Juliana Hom, Kiera Eason, Matthew McFall, Meredith Sessions, Sarah Singleton Schroedel, Stuart Johnson, Trey Hernandez, Vasy Karp Pop Up Experience Unleash your creative energy to step into...
Team: Students from University of Washington, Department of Landscape Architecture Pop Up Experience Ever dreamed of designing your own playground? Join us for an exciting one day workshop where kids take the lead in exploring and designing play environments for...
Team: Gwen Lennox, SAF Volunteers Pop Up Experience What if you were involved in designing the layout of a city? What would you like to see included? Seattle Architecture Foundation (SAF) invites you to co-create a new city scape that...
Team: Rebecca Ustrell, Nicholas Aceves, Samuel Signer Built Installation Explore the possibilities of radical community collaboration. What if we collaborated? “Infinity” is an interactive, thread-bound paper sculpture exploring the possibilities of radical community collaboration. Read responses to the prompt “What...
Team: Cierra Higgins (NOMA|nw), Kaylah Meikle(NOMA|nw), Matthew Fujimoto (NOMA|nw), Darren Smith (Cater 2 U Construction) Built Installation Engage with our installation by contributing your own experiences and aspirations for equitable housing to our mind map. Use string to create a...
Team: Amber Shi, Ben Larson, Ben Rogers, Biwen Sun, Eric Pope, Erik Heironimus, Heywood Chan, Jacky Wong, Joe Clark, Joonhyuk Yun, Karie Gipson, Loren Supp, Marjorie Chang Fuller, Parker Meade, Philip Bergsieker, Queenie Lyu, Ryan Kaname, Steven Herron Built Installation...
Team: Steven, Kan, Solara, Melia, Dan, Donn, Brian, Teng, Nolan, Mai-Anh, Ghida Built Installation Make your mark and add to this collaborative facade! What if an architectural facade was designed to incorporate unique input from a wide audience. Could it...
Team: Saloni Agarwall, Bobo Yuansi Cai, Matt Campbell, Hope Freije, Sarah Lukins, Tyler Quinn-Smith Built Installation Send a postcard to your favorite Seattle “third place” and learn about the places Seattlies go to find connection and community. Together we will...
Team: Janelle Abbott, CRĒO Industrial Arts, Bianca Dyke, Justin Heu, Nicole Li, Simba Mafundikwa, Carolina Montilla, Kayla Quilantang, Krista Reeder, Eduardo Velasquez, Franci Virgili Built Installation “Loom to Bloom” invites you to bring your old and unwanted clothing and join...
Built Installation This installation opens discussion to the question: What if we could collaborate on ideas that transcend familiar ways of thinking? Storytelling is the exchange of ideas that transcend our understanding. Surrounded by books, the space created acts as...
Team: Brittany Porter, Sarah Rable, Austin Besse, Cody Lodi, Jiao Mei, Lara Tedrow, Marc Furst, Noah Scanlan Built Installation “What if structures could sing?” Timbre (pronounced tam-ber) is an immersive installation in which differing columns double as musical instruments brought...
Built Installation Join the team at Environmental Works and contribute your unique vision to the ever-evolving story of our city. This thought-provoking interactive installation will invite participants to reimagine the utilization of Seattle’s surplus properties—those hidden gems scattered throughout our...
Built Installation Step into the future of urban living with “Algae Arcology” an immersive installation that transforms the concept of a city into a vibrant, living ecosystem. This 3D-printed hydrogel city teems with life, featuring tiny shrimp swimming through translucent...
Team: Christopher Patano, Elizabeth Gilman, Jeff Ocampo, Brennan Kuhn, Caitlin Cypher, Radha Iyer, Dan Leckman, Megan Ryan, Eilish Cullen Built Installation Stop by to play the EPIC Raceway—a chance-based ball game illustrating the choices and challenges of the zero-carbon building...
Team: Brendan Connolly, Uwe Bergk, Evan Fleming, Alex Ayala, Nathaniel Smith, Veronica Macalinao, Laura Tittle, Carl Dominguez, Christian Runge, Bennet Song, Aaron Willette, Andrew Birklid, Ben Loshin, Ellen Li, Nitin Pauletti, Leah Guszkowski, Lucas Dubinski, Peter Burke Built Installation How...
Team: Aubrey Moore, Tyler White, Elisandra Garcia, Daniel Renner, David Dowell Built Installation Streams of Consciousness is an installation that explores the question “What if our cities could read our minds.” Through a colorful array of tubes, festival goers are...
Team: Tyler Sprague (UW Department of Architecture), Shannon Andino, Jonathan Bechtol, Felipe Cruz, Hajan Dunham, Siqing Han, Jahnvi Shah, Anthony Stoyanov, Zoe Willig (students) Built Installation RE-Material, RE-Structure is an exploration of an architecture from re-newable resources, or re-purposed/ re-newed...
Team: Bellevue College Interior Design Students Built Installation “What if structures could sing?” As we reflect on the idea of utilizing design to drive community, we ask: what if Seattle cultivated vibrant social ecosystems by increasing accessibility to third places?...
Team: Lindsey Heller, Cuiling Chen, Eli Winckler, Maria Gaviola, Ayden Nakamura, Team Chill Out – Montlake High School’s First Robotics Competition Team 1778 Built Installation Take a break from the heat and experience how we combined futuristic technology, ancient building...
Team: Alexandra Forin, Alex Mischke, Erik Peterson, Fangjie Guo, Matthew Bissen, Nicholas Miranda, Peter Sydloski-Tesch, Randal Bennett, Sam Schafer, Zichen Tian Built Installation What if existence were malleable? This installation proposes a series of folding planes creating unexpected and contrasting...
Team: Content Design: Yirim Seck; Project Design and Management: Connor Irick, Julian Uribe, Ekram Hassen, Stephen Yamada-Heidner; Build Partner: Crescent Builds Built Installation What if we listened to gain empathy and understanding? Through a presentation of video recordings, Story House...
Team: Keerthana Venugopalan Pop Up Experience What if… we create serendipity? A serendipity salon designed to spark joy and connection is a welcoming space that fosters meaningful interactions and delightful discoveries. Serendipitous moments ignite joy, as they inspire gratitude for...
Team: Urban ArtWorks Base Crew Pop Up Experience Pick up a brush and collaborate with youth artists from Urban ArtWorks! What if young people were given the power to design art that was seen by the general public in their...
Team: Erik Miller-Klein, Ani Joh, Alec Lindsay, Mesa Kelly, Drew Lodarek Pop Up Experience What if you could hear sound in relation to the frequencies and visualize the different impacts it has on your daily experiences.? Tenor Engineering Group has...
Team: Mushroom Tent Pop Up Experience Capture unforgettable moments next to an enchanting Mushroom Tent at the Seattle Design Festival. Step into a world where creativity meets nature, and snap photos beside this whimsical structure, a testament to the power...
Team: Meredith Pellon, Elise Meiners, Madeline Morser, Shayley Timm Block Party Mainstage Reimagine the stage over and over again, as you are invited into a calm but charged landscape of contemporary dance. Last Last Last is a contemporary dance work...
Join us at Lake Union Park during the SDF Block Party for the first-ever SDF Mainstage! These performances, talks, and demonstrations are happening live at the times listed below. Be sure to grab your seat before the program starts! Can’t...
Team: Jigyasa Tuli & Ana Mengote Baluca Pop Up Experience Join us to pause and reflect about your intentions, inspire, get inspired and connect with others. A Collective Manifesto aims to foster connections and conversations across different perspectives and beliefs...
Team: Isabella Medina, Isabel Nelson Pop Up Experience Join us speed-dating style to make friends through a rotating portrait drawing session. Our pop-up explores possibilities of what can happen when we use creativity to learn about others in our community....
Team: Bea Badipe, Sabin Timalsena Block Party Mainstage WHAT IF architecture could become the bridge between the physical and digital world? Explore the future of architecture as a bridge between the digital and physical worlds in this hallmark talk titled:...
Team: Meghan Oesterle, Akiksha Chatterji, Lisa Marcus, Art Quinones Pop Up Experience Help us create a “community of dreams!” What if Seattle ushers in a Green New Deal future and meets its climate goal to be Carbon Neutral by 2050?...
Team: Roy Hague, Tiffany Chang, Ryan Lascano, Arni Barnes, Karis Kim, Emily Dutton, Gunes Erel, Dana Lee, Nke Opoku, Catherine Park, Hely Parmar, Colette Reitenour, Justin Sze, Trevin Thompson, Sophia Vanderwarker, Athena Walker, Samantha Weissberg Pop Up Experience How could...
Pop Up Experience What if we could improve how we communily talk about and shape our past, present and future with AR/VR? Want to know how Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality(VR) experiences are designed and created? Stop by the...
Pop Up Experience Beep. Beep. Beep. Did you hear that sound? That sound when you badge into the office to comply with RTO policy? Beep. A day start. Beep. A coffee get. Beep. A day end. Beep. Beep. Why do...
Block Party Mainstage WHAT IF we embraced mistakes? Did I Do That? is podcast about graphic designers: the ups and downs they face in creative practice, because making design means making lots (and lots) mistakes. In this special live recording,...
Block Party Mainstage WHAT IF we could improve how we communally talk about and shape our past, present and future with AR/VR? Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are expanding the ways we can interact with our world and...
Team: Kim Anh Tran-Dinh, Augusta Milford, Brandon Milling Pop Up Experience Come imagine Seattle’s possible futures at the interactive pop-up, Balancing Act! Explore the region’s alternate realities by responding to “What If?” prompts and posing some of your own unconventional...
Team: Jessica Holman, Whitney Valerio, Kacy Jones, Lee Weihung Pop Up Experience Join us to create some fun crafts and engage in discussion! “What If…” it was second nature for unwanted materials to be diverted from the landfill and transformed...
Pop Up Experience Capture unforgettable moments next to an enchanting Mushroom Tent at the Seattle Design Festival. Step into a world where creativity meets nature, and snap photos beside this whimsical structure, a testament to the power and beauty of...
Team: Justin Dauer Block Party Mainstage What is design, if not ‘connection’ made manifest? Given the state of the world over the past few years, with designers navigating the global pandemic, mass layoffs, hybrid / remote work, and a struggling...
Pop Up Experience Send Slime Faxes from your mobile device at Seattle Design Festival this summer! Ever wanted to send a Slime Fax? Slime Fax is a functional, fictional office communication tool that sends unreadable messages by spraying fake “slime”...
Block Party Mainstage Break your mundane routine and reignite the curiosity and excitement for life that is so present in childhood in this Block Party Mainstage presentation. Brought to you by the creative studio Goopy Girls, Goopy Mag is a...
Pop Up Experience What if… we create serendipity? A serendipity salon designed to spark joy and connection is a welcoming space that fosters meaningful interactions and delightful discoveries. Serendipitous moments ignite joy, as they inspire gratitude for the beauty of...
Team: Paul Kuniholm Block Party Mainstage Join Paul Kuniholm for a percussive performance where he reverberates his Steel Heart sculpture designed to calm unwanted noise. What if sound were a precious treasure, nurtured in quietude? Can subtle sound at the...
Team: Aiken Bömers-Muller, Brad Muller, David W Halsell Block Party Mainstage What if we made an artist residency more accessible and lowered the barriers to participation? CAMPBIENT: The 44 Hour Sound Art Residency is annual event that brings together dozens...
Block Party Mainstage Imagine ‘what if’ possibilities for the future of how we can empower, engage and connect communities through pioneering the use of new tools, mediums and platforms. Human connection is one of the essential ways in which we...
Make connections at the SDF Mixers! WHAT IF? opens our minds to challenge the status quo, expand knowledge, develop new relationships, and make new discoveries. We invite you to bring that open mind to our Seattle Design Festival Mixers, a...
Join us for food, drink, and community at Pratt! Connect with Pratt artists, instructors, students, and staff within a space that highlights the bridge between fine art, function, design, and community. We will gather in the fusing/flameworking studio, but opportunities...
Join us at the Seattle Design Festival Mixer and explore our current exhibition, “A Better Way to Go: Toilets and the Future of Sanitation.” Join a tour, participate in take-action activities, and enjoy beverages, bites, and connection with one another!...
SDF believes that design is for everyone. Join in the conversation from wherever you are with our Virtual Mainstage. This restream can be found on the SDF YouTube channel, and will premier on August 20 and 21! Are you able...
Visit the new home of Gage Academy of Art, located in SLU right next to the Amazon Spheres! Expand your design community and connect with the Gage community over drinks, bites, and hands-on activities. We invite you to join us...
Come join us for the ultimate celebration to close out the SDF 2024 event! We’re throwing a party to wrap up the festivities in style at The Shop – LMN Architects. Get ready for an unforgettable night filled with music,...