Photo:
Events List Navigation
Party:
August 4, 5:00PM-8:00PM
Join us for the public unveiling of the 2022 Seattle Design Festival August 4, 5-8pm @ the Center, and learn more about what’s to come. Festival staff and organizers will provide an overview of this year’s festival—expanding on the key...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-26
The 2022 Seattle Design Festival will be all about CONNECTION. When thinking about design, there is something very tangible and physical in how things ‘connect’ – but there is also something very emotional that ‘CONNECTION’ taps into as well. CONNECTION...
Landscape Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Admire, pose with, read stories, even add your ideas, stories, or responses to this sculpture which will bridge people from all over the city! The members of Coyote’s Youth Advisory Board created their Teen Resilience Project as a way for...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Join us for a chaotic game of ping pong in the round. Grab a paddle and a friend or seven! Connect directly with other festival-goers by playing this group game. This round ping pong table with a motorized net was...
Visual / Art:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Track, chart and project your personal connection from where you are to where you’ll go to. This abstract framework, inspired by South Pacific Stick Charts, tells the story of the connecting paths we encounter in our journey through life. An...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
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...
Exhibit/Installation:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Visitors will see large painted textiles that are based on many indigenous cultures around the world. They are touchable, with rich mixed media inclusions. The artist will also tell stories about world events associated with their creation. Deer Creek Studio...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Leave your mark on our interactive art exhibit! For this first installation of City’s Canvas, we are exploring ‘Happy Accidents.’ We believe that connection sparks when two ideas, two people, or two groups come together around an idea. Progress is...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
In the Beat Roulette arena, your body movements double as instruments! Dance, have fun, and interact with others in the space to create new sounds and music! Beat Roulette highlights one of the most important ways in which we create...
Community Design:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Let’s imagine ecoTHRIVE Housing’s first resilient village together! Join us in visualizing a beautiful community-centered village that is affordable for today, for generations – for good. We will have a large-scale model of our 1.8-acre building site to help us...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Pick a thread of your choice! A connection is made once you weave yours onto a peg interwoven with other people’s threads, creating a beautifully woven design. This abstract connection relates other users’ interests and ideas anonymously to yours. A...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Push and pull different mechanisms along the wall to create a structure where openings and connections appear and dissolve through the interactions! Throughout history, walls have always been built to set boundaries and separate people spatially and socially. The rigid...
Landscape Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Explore how landscape architects use plants to design green, healthy, and inclusive future cities! Imagine what it would be like to be a plant yourself! And create your own radical botanical future landscape! What is your relationship to plants and...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Visit ‘Equipoise’ to connect and socialize! While you’re here, create artistic flags that will be attached to the installation for display throughout the festival! Rooted in Pacific Northwest summertime, ‘Equipoise’ seeks to embrace two identities intrinsically tied to our regional...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Come make a personal connection to the thing that sustains us all: our planet! Forest Net(work) is a pavilion helping us to create a more sustainable world through reforestation. Planting new trees is one of the most effective ways to...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Create a banner that captures elements your own intersectional identity to help build a collective tapestry of hidden connections with other festival-goers. Like the mycorrhizal networks that connect and strengthen apparently individual trees in the forest, this installation seeks to...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Share your favorite places, activities, and memories in and around Seattle through ribbons! Come learn and trade experiences with your neighbors. Discover new adventures in your local community and connect through each other’s experiences. Whether you’ve been in Seattle for...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Fling the foliage! Lob some leaves! Cast a canopy! Help re-leaf our tree. Loop strands over branches to collectively compose a canopy. Together, our combined contributions will weave an unexpected tapestry and result in emergent form. By creating in this...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20, 10:00AM-3:00PM
Foster community connections and collaborate with your neighbors through a shared map of your favorite Seattle experiences. What does post-pandemic look like? One thing that everyone can agree on is that simply emerging may not be enough. So, what is...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
View a diorama of the 1909 Seattle Fireboat Duwamish, then proceed across the park to see the real Seattle Fireboat Duwamish at the Historic Ships Wharf! Visitors will encounter an antique trunk sitting on a table in the park. There...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
What’ll Seattle’s residential neighborhoods look like in thirty years? Explore visions for new & reimagined housing types proposed by UW students. Explore student work, data points, and key takaways from a UW graduate architecture research design studio focused on re-establishing...
Graphic Design:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Follow the Burma Shave inspired road signs around the park until you reach the final destination: the Seattle Fireboat Duwamish, where you can take a free tour of the fireboat! The first set of signs will begin on one side...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Soundscape is inspired by the simple kid’s toy string can telephone, composed of two cans and a taut string. Playing with that concept, this pavilion features hundreds of tin can phones, where visitors can share playful interactions through abstract sound...
Visual / Art:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Come create a piece of art with us! Explore how we are connected to place, community, art, and self by composing a selection of cube faces, comprising a holistic image. The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) presents an interactive building...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Take a seat inside our cocoon or simply walk through and enjoin the beautiful wooden structure inside! The Cocoon is an all wooden structure designed to provide a space for refuge and rest for every visitor. Architecture students from the...
Community Design:
August 20, 10:00AM-2:00PM
Up for the Sink or Sail challenge? Design a toy boat, plan for the supplies you’ll need, construct your design and then see if it floats! Compete against other groups, or build on your own. The Sink or Sail: Boat...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Discover new ways to interact and build resilient, transcendent connections! When our world of constant motion was brought to a jarring halt by the pandemic, social interaction gave way to solitude, and ‘IRL’ connection, once the norm, became dangerous, indulgent,...
Exhibit/Installation:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
With a modern + elemental approach, a Koya simply becomes a canvas for your life. What would you do with more space? You are washed in muted light by day, while by night you create a low glow. Connect to...
Exhibit/Installation:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Our HOTHOUSE debuts neon glass as you’ve never seen it before! Come check out our freestanding sculpture featuring house and plant motifs! HOTHOUSE is a 6ft tall by 5ft wide by 6ft long neon glass tubing representation of a greenhouse...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
‘let’s play’ encourages people to interact with and examine the environment within which connections are built upon and reinforced. Through an array of apertures the installation unfurls an evolving tapestry of variation; close and open, conceal and discover, separate and...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Work together to solve this collaborative maze game installation! Labyrinth encourages an environment of cooperation and problem-solving. Participants stand on either side of the maze, one side where the maze is visible and one side where it is obscured. Attendees...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Tie threads throughout the installation to connect yourself with the community and others around you by creating a network of memories! Enjoy the sounds of these connections as they begin to tie into one another and create a web of...
Community Design:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
What happens when people come together and use deliberate relationship building and community engagement as a pathway to ending homelessness? Help build a BLOCK Home with The Block Project, a dignified, restorative, affordable, community-based solution to the homelessness crisis. Facing...
Architecture:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Explore the notion of hidden connections, the actions, and reactions that secretly connect us and affect the lived experience of others in our sphere of influence. We are inextricably connected to each other through the world around us and our...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-21, 10:00AM-7:00PM
Scale the elephant in the room, and learn about the community of survivors looking to re-enter the workforce. The hard work of defeating cancer is often seen as an unfavorable career gap. But fighting cancer is one of the toughest...
Community Design:
August 20, 11:00AM-6:00PM
Create chains of connection between meaningful places. Write on paper links about why a place is meaningful to you and add it to the map! Using large printed maps of the Seattle area, we will engage the public in creating...
Multidisciplinary:
August 20-21, 1:00PM-5:00PM
How can the edge conditions we value redefine Seattle for its post-pandemic era? This pop-up space will act as a conduit for bringing readers both new and existing to ARCADE’s collective dialogue and written work. Last year, ARCADE asked festival...
Performance / Experiential:
August 20, 4:00PM-6:00PM
Creativity fosters connection. Tap into your inner artist and help create a collective masterpiece! You are invited to contribute your own one-of-a-kind painted piece to help complete the larger image on the canvas. Festival-goers are encouraged to design and decorate...
Performance / Experiential:
August 21, 10:00AM-2:00PM
Examine how you engage with public space and come away with techniques that increase ease and fulfillment as well as greater relationships to the spaces we inhabit in daily life! This workshop will offer tools and strategies for increasing awareness...
Visual / Art:
August 21, 4:00PM-5:00PM
13 Rabbit is a band made up of veteran musicians, who also happen to be architects, designers, and contractors. Jam out to their mix of rock, soul, and blues! Great summer music is the perfect fit for this year’s Seattle Design...
Multidisciplinary:
August 22-24, 12:00AM-11:59PM
Spend your lunch (virtually) with SDF August 22-24! Log on from your desk as we stream design sessions and live discussions about CONNECTION with special guests. The mainstage will be a lively and engaging virtual show produced by the Seattle...
Multidisciplinary:
August 22-25
A series of programs from our Festival partners in Fremont August 22, Columbia City August 24, and Downtown August 25. Focused celebrations of Seattle neighborhoods and a chance to get to know the design community within them and how design...
Architecture:
August 24, 4:00PM-8:00PM
Columbia City Connections will feature several interactive tables of different scales highlighting design from small arts and graphic design projects up to site scale through to neighborhood planning! • There will be an interactive presentation of the Ferdinand Festival Street...
Community Design:
August 25, 11:00AM-1:00PM
We’re hosting a coffee-fueled networking event and brief conversation on low-waste journeys of two Seattle designers and manufacturers – from small wins to sticky hurdles. We’ll talk about the local network of resources for achieving low waste goals, and how...
Architecture:
August 25, 11:00AM-1:00PM
Children of all ages and their chaperones are invited to a drop-in modeling workshop with the Seattle Architecture Foundation! Seattle Architecture Foundation invites youth to take the lead in a design and modeling challenge inspired by our current exhibit at...
Architecture:
August 25, 11:00AM-1:00PM
Visit the Seattle Architecture Foundation’s 25th Annual Architectural Model Exhibit, “JUNCTION,” at the Center for Architecture and Design. On display now! JUNCTION is an exhibit hosted by the Seattle Architecture Foundation at the Center for Architecture and Design that features...
Multidisciplinary:
August 25, 4:00PM-8:00PM
Join IIDA NPC Seattle City Center in a downtown Architecture & Interior Design Firm Crawl! Through this group tour, we will visit three architectural firms and one furniture showroom in downtown Seattle. This year we’re part of the Seattle Design...
Multidisciplinary:
August 25, 6:00PM-7:30PM
What’ll Seattle’s residential neighborhoods look like in thirty years? Explore visions for new & reimagined housing types proposed by UW students. Join the UW Department of Architecture and the AIA Seattle Comprehensive Plan Work Group for this panel discussion. Explore...
Party:
August 26, 7:00PM-10:00PM
Join us for a celebration of our festival partners, volunteers, and supporters! More info coming soon!