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. We are multidisciplinary, socially engaged and civic minded.
2021 – EMERGE
SDF 2021: EMERGE
With this year’s festival theme, EMERGE, we invite participants to explore the opportunities of adaptation and change as we move forward with what we’ve learned from 2020. As the summer of 2021 came into focus we were excited to move into this Festival season with optimism and hope. We wanted to focus on what we, as a community, are emerging TO as our community heals – as we navigate changed perspectives – and as we think about new ways to leverage design. EMERGE isn’t just about a physical re-entry, it can be iterative and reflective as well. It doesn’t require a floodgate of immediate change or response. Even with ongoing challenges associated with our continued pandemic, it still felt very timely and appropriate.
FUNDERS
National Endowment for the Arts | Artsfund | 4Culture | Office of Arts & Culture | ArtsWA
GOLD
LMN
SILVER
Applied | Artefact | CallisonRTKL | DLR Group | Encore Architects | GGLO | Krekow Jennings | Mahlum | Miller Hull Partnership | Minka | Mithun | Olson Kundig
Substantial | Swenson Say Fagét | VIA
BRONZE
Bassetti Architects | IKEA Renton | Johnston Architects | Lumiere Group | ScharrerAD
IN-KIND
Abracadabra Printing | citizenM | Gray | MG2 | Recology | The Stranger