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Detail of "Dear Seattle" installation, 2011
Seattle Design Festival; Studio Matthews
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AIA Seattle Launches
Design in Public
AIA Seattle members have been
working hard over the past two years to bring you a new affiliate nonprofit
organization, Design in Public, creator of the Seattle Design Festival.
Design in Public is a multidisciplinary organization that promotes the role
of design in improving our community. Inspired by successful models in
cities around the world, the organization was founded in 2011 by AIA
Seattle in direct response to feedback from our members about the importance
of an elevated discussion of design in the public realm.
The annual Seattle Design
Festival is the region's largest interdisciplinary design event. This
year's theme, "Engage Your World," explores ways that design can
improve and increase our interactions with the urban environment. The
four-day event features activities, exhibits, films, tours, speakers, and a
pop-up "Design Block," the hub of this year's festival, in South
Lake Union.
Design in Public plans to
expand its public programming beyond the annual Design Festival to a set of
comprehensive, year-round offerings that enable creative thinking and
relevant, design-based solutions to community challenges.
As Steven McKay, Principal,
DLR Group said at a recent fundraiser for Design in Public, "Great
design can be inspiring, beautiful, innovative, efficient and functional,
but the measure of truly great design... is [whether it] engages and
elevates the human experience." Design in Public has the power to be a
"catalyst" for a movement in our city and region that changes its
course.
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