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Seattle Design Festival 2020

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Seattle Design Festival 2020

8.15-23

12:00AM-11:59PM

2020 is a big year in many ways– the Seattle Design Festival is turning 10! Our anniversary comes at a pivotal moment in time. This year’s theme, About Time, sought to...

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Multidisciplinary

Seattle Design Festival 2020

Aug 15-23

2020 is a big year in many ways– the Seattle Design Festival is turning 10! Our anniversary comes at a pivotal moment in time. T...

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Online,
Seattle WA

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Community Spotlights

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Community Spotlights

8.15-23

12:00AM-11:59PM

Community Spotlights are physical displays and experiences throughout the city that are visible from the public right-of-way and can be visited safely and with social distance....

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Multidisciplinary

Community Spotlights

Aug 15-23

Community Spotlights are physical displays and experiences throughout the city that are visible from the public right-of-way and c...

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Various Locations,
Seattle WA 98104

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Thinkercyze
Weekly Design Challenge

Multidisciplinary
Thinkercyze Weekly Design Challenge

8.15-23

12:00AM-11:59PM

Sharpen your skills and expand your thinking by engaging in our weekly virtual design challenge THINKERCYZE is a weekly virtual design challenge from some of our favorite...

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Multidisciplinary

Thinkercyze Weekly Design Challenge

Aug 15-23

Sharpen your skills and expand your thinking by engaging in our weekly virtual design challenge THINKERCYZE is a weekly virtual de...

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Online,
Seattle WA

This event is free

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Partner Programs – Ongoing Virtual Programs

Multidisciplinary
Partner Programs – Ongoing Virtual Programs

8.15-23

12:00AM-11:59PM

The following Partner Programs include virtual experiences as well as indoor and outdoor activities that will be running the length of the festival, August 15 - 23. Links out to...

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Multidisciplinary

Partner Programs – Ongoing Virtual Programs

Aug 15-23

The following Partner Programs include virtual experiences as well as indoor and outdoor activities that will be running the lengt...

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Online,
Seattle WA

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Partner Programs – Live Webinars & Discussions

Multidisciplinary
Partner Programs – Live Webinars & Discussions

8.15-23

12:00AM-11:59PM

The following Partner Programs are live stream webinars, discussions, and other virtual programming that will occur on specific days and times. Some events will require...

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Multidisciplinary

Partner Programs – Live Webinars & Discussions

Aug 15-23

The following Partner Programs are live stream webinars, discussions, and other virtual programming that will occur on specific da...

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Online,
Seattle WA

This event is free

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2020 is a big year in many ways– the Seattle Design Festival is turning 10! Our anniversary comes at a pivotal moment in time. This year’s theme, About Time, sought to...

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Time to Garden (Physical Display)

8.15-23

As a reflection of our specific time in history and our human need to interact with each other and nature, SHKS Architects and Site Workshop have collaborated to construct a...

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It Is Time We Connect

8.15-23

Visit Rolluda Architect's event website at any point during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Matthew Budinger, Tracy Law, Mark McCarter, Brett Barbakoff, Zamzam Arale, Karina...

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Reimagine in Color

8.15-23

Visit Reimagine in Color website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Weber Thompson - Erin Hatch, Brittany Porter, Tom Geeslin, Cody Lodi, Aaron Swain,...

Visual / Art

On the Record – Mural (Physical Display)

8.15-23

Team: Kendra Azari, Malcolm Wolfdelux Procter, Kevin Snoddy (artists) Lia Coleman, Alana Zakroczemski, Simon Budker, Brooke Cheng (organizers) "ON THE RECORD" is a mural...

Visual / Art

We Are One (Physical Display)

8.15-23

Team: Jacob Young, Isaac Greenetz, Sidney Burton, Noah Firth “We Are One” aims to use creative and thoughtful design to demonstrate the many faces and voices that make up...

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This Moment in Time: a Creative Response

8.15-23

Visit the This Moment in Time: a Creative Response website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: KPFF - Diana Timpson, Huitt-Zollars - J. Ulrich, Gannett...

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Listen Now

8.15-23

Visit the Listen Now website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Sunny Zhang, Stacey Crumbaker, Claudia Saunders, Anne Schopf, Violette Yang Each of us...

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Amp’ Up Seattle (Physical Display & Online)

8.15-23

Team: EJ Deocampo, Gargi Kadoo, Hannah Estrich, Nicholas Zurlini, Parker Meade, Simba Mafundikwa, Stuart Jones How do we spend time together, or spend time apart? Coming...

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The Antibody to the Pandemic of Fake News

8.15-23

Visit The Antibody to the Pandemic of Fake News event website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Yuansi Li, Catherine Chang, Alex Banh "The Antibody to...

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Running Dry: How Water Will Design Our Future

8.15-23

Visit the Running Dry: How Water Will Design Our Future website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Aaron Argyle, Malika Kirkling, Rob Misel, Casey...

Architecture

Dreamscapes

8.15-23

Visit the Dreamscapes website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Orlando Orozco, Eduardo Silva, Astrid Garcia, Hannah Lim & Alonso Cantu Our...

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Connection in Time

8.15-23

Time is a connection—connection between past, present, and future, connection between an individual and the other, connection between one generation and another. Through time,...

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WE BELONG TO EACH OTHER.

8.15-23

Visit the EMI website every morning at 8:30 am (PST) during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Lisa Ehli, Brandon McNerney, Randy Larsen, Laura Salmela, Toby Wong, Nathaniel...

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Positive Negative (Physical Display)

8.15-23

Team: Thomas Cheney, Julie Hale On March 23rd, Washington state Governor Jay Inslee issued proclamation order 20-25 'Stay Home Stay Healthy.' In light of the global pandemic,...

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A Poetics of Living: Biomimetic Blueprints

8.15-23

Northwest Film Forum presents an interdisciplinary film program and interactive community vision board collectively contemplating the poetry of pace, process, and performance in...

Visual / Art

15th Avenue East’s Past, Present, & Future (Physical Display)

8.15-23

Team: Gretchen Claire, Shannon Carrico, Leslie Batten, Chris Parker COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter are highlighting the inequity that has persisted in our city for centuries....

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It’s About Time We House Everyone

8.15-23

Visit the It's About Time We House Everyone website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Third Place Design Cooperative, Sheri Newbold, Bruce Parker AIA...

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Travel in Place (Physical Display)

8.15-23

As a person walks down a Seattle street, she catches a glimpse of someone waving at her in the reflection of a storefront. A glance left and right reveals that no one is around,...

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SAF: Design At Your Desk

8.15-23

Design at Your Desk at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! About time! We’ve all been spending a lot more time at home recently because of COVID-19. By now you are...

Visual / Art

Vortices of Myrkott På Reutersvard – Mural (Physical Display)

8.15-23

Vortices of Myrkott På Reutersvard is a projection of a hand-drawn animation on a mural, both animation and mural are artworks created by Paul Kuniholm. The animation depicts the...

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Iterations

8.15-23

Traditionally, Architecture is presented as a finished product, exact in its completion. However, each project is a body of work with a life of its own, changing over time and...

Architecture

Urban Harmony Seattle

8.15-23

Use the Urban Harmony Seattle mobile application at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: NBBJ In addition to the health impacts of COVID-19, the pandemic also...

Multidisciplinary

Seattle Happy Places

8.15-23

Visit the Seattle Happy Places website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Hannah Rudin and Rosie Sabaric Seattle Happy Places invites you to find Happy...

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Sharing Stories of Racism & Resistance in Seattle

8.15-23

Visit the Sharing Stories of Racism & Resistance in Seattle website, or the physical exhibit at the Seattle Municipal Tower, at any time during the Seattle Design...

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Duwamish Crossing

8.15-23

Visit the Duwamish Crossing website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Matt Wittman, Angela Yang, and Canan Sevim We all need to cross the Duwamish...

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How Do We Want To Live?

8.15-23

Visit the How Do We Want To Live? website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Abbie Drake, Candon Murphy, Willie Mak, Ellen Dulweber, Ryan Lascano, Isabella...

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Created then, Here now, Envisioning for the future.

8.15-23

Visit the Created then, Here now, Envisioning for the future website at any time during the Seattle Design Festival! Team: Whitney Valerio, Jessica Cody, Madi Thomas, Anna...

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Community Spotlights

8.15-23

Community Spotlights are physical displays and experiences throughout the city that are visible from the public right-of-way and can be visited safely and with social distance....

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Scavenger Bingo Time

8.15-23

Team: Tara Brooks, Emilia Cabeza De Baca, Yue Chen, Miranda Karli, Liz Szatko, Genevieve Theriault, and Michelle Yates This time is one of undeniable environmental, economic,...

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Thinkercyze Weekly Design Challenge

8.15-23

Sharpen your skills and expand your thinking by engaging in our weekly virtual design challenge THINKERCYZE is a weekly virtual design challenge from some of our favorite...

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Partner Programs – Ongoing Virtual Programs

8.15-23

The following Partner Programs include virtual experiences as well as indoor and outdoor activities that will be running the length of the festival, August 15 - 23. Links out to...

Multidisciplinary

Partner Programs – Live Webinars & Discussions

8.15-23

The following Partner Programs are live stream webinars, discussions, and other virtual programming that will occur on specific days and times. Some events will require...

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Seattle Architecture Foundation App Launch

8.15-23

The Seattle Architecture Foundation just launched a new tool for exploring Seattle's built environment! The new Seattle Architecture Foundation App includes profiles of over...

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Seattle Street Sink

8.15-23

Team: Elizabeth Golden AIA of UW Architecture, Jeff Hou of UW Landscape Architecture, Brice Maryman - Principal Landscape Architect with MIG, Tiffani McCoy - Lead Organizer at...

Performance / Experiential

Yolanda DID

8.15-23

This film will be available throughout the run of the Seattle Design Festival! Team Members: Sarah Lisette Chiesa, Terence Chiesa (father), Aaron Chiesa (VFX artist), Julia...

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BEECON/BEACON – August 15 (Physical Display)

8.15

8:00AM-8:00PM

Team: Justin Panganiban, Doug Sharpe, Trevor Mauro, Victoria Kovacs, Solaja Ratcliffe, Isaura Perez In times of chaos and uncertainty, regenerative healing is deeply inherent...

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8.15

10:00AM-12:00PM

Join us for Architect’s Role In The Civic Conversation For Design Justice, a 2-hour panel discussion furthering the conversations of the impact design professionals have on the...

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Press to Express – Waterfront (Physical Display)

8.15

11:00AM-4:00PM

Team: Trevor Dykstra, George Zatloka, Mike Hua, Letao Tao, Kai Curtis, Allison Shroeder, Allana Zakroczemski, Ken Roepe, Lia Coleman, Joy Jin A roving mobile printing press...

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This Bitter Earth Project

8.15

5:30PM-6:30PM

Join us for This Bitter Earth Project, a short film that brings together dancers from around the world in response to social inequality and the global health crisis: Artists...

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BEECON/BEACON – August 16 (Physical Display)

8.16

8:00AM-5:00PM

Team: Justin Panganiban, Doug Sharpe, Trevor Mauro,Victoria Kovacs, Solaja Ratcliffe, Isaura Perez In times of chaos and uncertainty, regenerative healing is deeply inherent to...

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Creative Rituals: Designing for the New Normal

8.16

10:00AM-11:30AM

Join us for Creative Rituals: Designing for the New Normal, a 90-minute virtual panel! Team: Madeline Macdonald, Ezgi Emiroglu, Carly Williams, Kate Morsink While Seattle...

Community Design

Interstitial Community Bonding (Physical Display)

8.17-21

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Performance / Experiential

Be Bold: Design-Build Your Pyramid of Courage

8.17

1:00PM-4:00PM

Team: John E. Perkins, PhD in Organizational Change, Principal in Keep the Change Consulting. Only boldness can deliver from fear. ~ Carl Jung Let’s fully own our...

Urban Design

Defense of density after COVID-19

8.17

4:00PM-5:30PM

Join us for Defense of density after COVID-19, a 90-minute panel discussion. Team: Crisann Brooks, Family Support Program Director, Refugee Women’s Alliance; Brent Butler,...

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Reimagining Retail in the Time of Coronavirus

8.18

10:00AM-11:30AM

Join us for Reimagining Retail in the Time of Coronavirus: What will the role of the store be in our post-pandemic world?, a one-hour live stream panel. What will the role of...

Community Design

Time to Learn: Shaping the Future of a State Agency Focused on Opportunity Gaps

8.18

1:00PM-2:30PM

Team: Carrie Basas, Director; Sam Blazina, Senior Ombuds; Sean Heans, Community Engagement Specialist The Governor's Office of the Education Ombuds has worked with families,...

Visual / Art

On the Record – Live Stream Q&A

8.18

6:00PM-7:00PM

Team: Brittani Anglin, Kendra Azari, Kevin Snoddy (artists) Lia Coleman, Alana Zakroczemski, Simon Budker, Brooke Cheng (organizers) This is the online live-streamed event...

Visual / Art

Art & Design at the BAM (Physical Display)

8.19-23

This space is open to the public from 11am – 5pm, Wednesday-Sunday. The Steven Holl-designed first-floor Forum at Bellevue Arts Museum is one of King County's most impressive...

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We The Future: Young Leaders of Social Change

8.19

1:00PM-2:30PM

Team: Noah & Michaela, Youth Ambassador Program Members We the Future showcases the stories of ten young leaders working to build an equitable and inclusive world through...

Multidisciplinary

Designing for Behavior Change

8.19

5:00PM-6:30PM

Join us for Designing for Behavior Change, a 90-minute virtual program that will review concepts important to designing for behavior change and explore ethical considerations of...

Community Design

Spontaneous Production: When Seattle Boards Up – Artists Show Up (Panel Discussion)

8.19

6:30PM-8:00PM

Be sure to attend this 90-minute panel! Join us for a unique experience where we take you on a journey through recent history. 2020 has been a difficult year for all but...

Technology

What Day Is It? A Conversation with Microsoft Design

8.20

9:00AM-10:00AM

You may have found yourself wondering recently: What day is it? What year? Who even am I? As designers, we are constantly thinking about the implications of time throughout...

Technology

About time – Remembering the Past for Future Driven Education

8.20

2:00PM-3:00PM

Join USC Shoah Foundation & Substantial for an hour-long online program + Q & A. We are experiencing changes in education more quickly than ever. How can...

Architecture

Steven Holl – Making Architecture

8.20

5:00PM-6:00PM

Join us for Steven Holl - Making Architecture, a one-hour virtual Q&A session from the Bellevue Arts Museum. Renowned American architect Steven Holl joins...

Visual / Art

Time Well Spent (Physical Display)

8.21-23

Team: Aaron Ladd, Carmen Scraper, Daniel Scully, Ian Stevens, Jenny Prieto, Michael Beck, Patrick Dodson, Sarah Ellen Jodway, Sherif Sugiyama, and contributions from Stephen C....

Visual / Art

Vortices of Myrkott På Reutersvard – Lecture Q&A

8.21

10:00AM-10:40AM

Vortices of Myrkott På Reutersvard is a projection of a hand-drawn animation on a mural, both animation and mural are artworks created by Paul Kuniholm. The animation depicts the...

Multidisciplinary

Scavenger Bingo Time (Live Program)

8.21

5:00PM-6:00PM

Team: Tara Brooks, Emilia Cabeza De Baca, Yue Chen, Miranda Karli, Liz Szatko, Genevieve Theriault, and Michelle Yates This time is one of undeniable environmental, economic,...

Performance / Experiential

UTOPIA: touch | Aug 21

8.21

7:00PM-8:00PM

Join us for UTOPIA: touch, an hour-long, live, durational performance with 9 dancers in isolation exploring the tendernesses of unity and rebellion. Team: Vladimir Kremenović...

Multidisciplinary

Press to Express – Gas Works/Fremont (Physical Display)

8.22

11:00AM-4:00PM

Team: Trevor Dykstra, George Zatloka, Mike Hua, Letao Tao, Kai Curtis, Allison Shroeder, Allana Zakroczemski, Ken Roepe, Lia Coleman, Joy Jin A roving mobile printing press...

Technology

Empathy is Not Enough: How to Take Action Towards Inclusion

8.22

11:00AM-12:00PM

Join us for Empathy is Not Enough: How to Take Action Towards Inclusion, a one-hour participatory session. Design thinking has helped teams gain empathy and create better...

Technology

Built Reflection (Physical Display)

8.22

8:00PM-10:00PM

Team: Erica Bush, Juliette Dubroca, Mariana Gutheim Central Collective will project silent short moving images meant to showcase Seattle designers from...

Performance / Experiential

UTOPIA: touch | Aug 23

8.23

11:00AM-12:00PM

Join us for UTOPIA: touch, an hour-long, live, durational performance with 9 dancers in isolation exploring the tendernesses of unity and rebellion. Team: Vladimir Kremenović...

Urban Design

Towards a Region of Short Distances

8.23

3:00PM-5:00PM

Join us for Towards a Region of Short Distances, a 2-hour virtual panel discussion. Team: Elijah Coley, Adam Bettcher, Lisa Awazu Wellman Before the Second World War,...

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