Design Week Portland, which opens closed-to-the-public creative studios, returns April 21-29 with events in all corners of the city.
A Saturday night opening party will rock Revolution Hall, the music venue and design offices at Southeast Portland’s former Washington High.
The jam-packed series of Design Week Portland activities that follow are organized to celebrate creativity in all disciplines, from architecture to graphic design, film to interior design, photography to industrial design.
Design Week Portland
Organizers of the five-year-old, nonprofit Design Week Portland have scheduled hundreds of events, many are free or low cost. There are lectures, discussions and plenty of parties.
Design Week Portland’s headquarters will move from Pioneer Courthouse Square to Portland’s dynamic east side. Doors to the information hub and gathering space at The Redd (831 SE Salmon St.) will be open from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. from April 24 through 28.
At headquarters, there will be a streetscape prototype and a large-scale interactive map of the Green Loop, the proposed six-mile pedestrian and bike promenade linking the city’s east and west sides. The project was designed by Untitled Studio, winners of last year’s LoopPDX competition.
The public is invited to weigh in during the exhibition before the project faces final City Council consideration this spring.
The encompassing festival kicks off with a two-day Main Stage conference at Revolution Hall with Ted-style talks from 24 leading tech innovators, visual creators and branding experts. Tickets to the two-day conference are the most costly of all events: $395 or $295 for students (register online at designweekportland.com).
Speakers include sustainable food expert Anya Fernald of Belcampo, architects Hsinming Fung and Craig Hodgetts of Hodgetts+Fung and Marcelino J. Alvarez and James Keller of the design and engineering firm Uncorked Studios.
“We’re facing a frontier in technology, in civic growth and in political landscape,” said festival’s director Tsilli Pines in a news release. “Our programs this year reflect that and ask designers to consider all the ways their work engages with these new realities.”
As in past years, everyone will find activities to match their curiosity.
Speakers at the Main Stage conference illustrate Design Week Portland’s breadth of creative expertise:
- Adele Naude Santos of Santos Prescott and Associates, founder of the Center for Advanced Urbanism, will address the global affordable housing crisis and the demand for solutions.
- Charlie Brown of Context Partners will speak on the design of movements, and the role each of us is most needed to play.
- Wendy Red Star, an artist who explores the intersection of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, will talk, about intergenerational artistic collaborative.
The full festival schedule for 2017 is available online. Information is also available in The Journal video installments.
— Janet Eastman
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