SDF2015: Block Party

The Seattle Design Festival celebrates the ways design makes life better. Community members, city officials, citizen-experts, and designers all come together at workshops, performances, tours, exhibitions, talks, films, gatherings and more to exchange ideas.

This year, the Seattle Design Festival explores how design can contribute to a more equitable society. From buildings that everyone can move through, to apps that enable participation by people in every location and language, to cities where we can all afford to live – design is the vehicle of innovation. Design for Equity challenges us to question our biases and assumptions and work toward ensuring that everyone in our society – from every background, ability, race, age, gender, location or economic status – can access the same opportunities and outcomes, both now and in the future.

The Seattle Design Festival Block Party takes place at Occidental Park on September 12 & 13, 2015.

Saturday, September 12:

Rumble Installations:

• Alleycat Acres x Pike Place Farmer’s Market x Howard S. Wright Rumble Installation
  
  Alleycat Acres • Pike Place Farmer’s Market • Howard S. Wright
• Marketshare x Mallet Inc Rumble Installation
  Marketshare • Mallet Inc
• Taskar x Hoffman Construction Rumble Installation
  Taskar Center for Accessible Technology • Hoffman Construction
• Feet First x Waterfront Seattle Rumble Installation
  Feet First • Waterfront Seattle
• Skate Like A Girl x Lease Crutcher Lewis Rumble Installation
  Skate Like A Girl • Lease Crutcher Lewis

Block Party Exhibits:

• Aricature
  Gelotte Hommas Architecture
• CityBrix
  VIA Architecture
• Equitous Bike and Pedestrian Ramble
  AIA Seattle Urban Design Forum
• Get Gardening!
  Architectures Without Borders
• Housing Equity
  Schemata Workshop
• Imagine Africatown – #HackingGentrification
  Africatown-Central District Preservation & Development Association
• International Living Future Institute
  International Living Future Institute
• People’s Choice Urban Design Awards
  City of Seattle, Design Review Program
• Traveling Tinker Tank
  IXDA Seattle
• Walking with Trace
  Feet First • Daniela Rosner
• What I bring to Seattle
  Parita Kapadia

Block Party Installations:

• An Equitable Bench
  MAKERS
• Beyond Another Brick in the Wall
  Ashley Branca
• Design for Good: Food Equity Farmer’s Market
  AIGA Seattle
• Equity Means Connection
  Dinah Dimalanta
• I <3 this place
  4Culture
• If the city is for everyone, we need more opportunities to rest
  HSquareDesign
• Lend Your Voice
  Weber Thompson
• Parklet: Hole Pavilion
  Robert Hutchison Architecture
• Refract/Reflect
  Seattle Design Nerds
• Smaller/Smarter: A study of Housing Equity for Seattle
  Clay Anderson
• Threshold of Equity
  Saucy Studio
• Transient Youth
  Miller Hiyashi Architects • Youth Care

Exhibits:

• Play for All
  Integrus Architecture

Performances: