Seattle Design Festival

MISSION

We unleash the design thinker in everyone to illuminate Seattle’s challenges and ignite action.

ABOUT

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.

The Seattle Design Festival was founded in 2011 as a strategic initiative of AIA Seattle to promote public dialogue and community engagement about the role and impact of design in urban life.

WHAT WE DO

Demonstrate the relevance of design thinking

• Propose design solutions to urgent community problems
• Create a vision for our urban future, elicited from everyone
• Inspire action

Empower communities to leverage design

• Engage youth in design thinking
• Involve underrepresented communities in the design process
• Improve co-design and community engagement processes
• Model design as a career option for youth from diverse backgrounds

Promote a culture of collaboration

• Encourage multidisciplinary problem-solving
• Create lasting connections and collaborations among design disciplines
• Celebrate design and our greater design community