This event is organized and presented by University of the Arts.

The University of the Arts School of Design will hold workshops for high school students and their teachers on site on Saturday, October 14, 2017. High schools with curriculum in design and/or design thinking will be invited to participate in the design workshops. 

The workshops will be led by University design and education faculty, who will be assisted by high school art/design teachers. Students from the University of the Arts School of Design and Art and Design Education Program will assist each workshop leader as peer tutors and technical assistants for the high school students.

The day long workshops culminating in a professional critique will be followed by a double-lecture by two Philadelphia-based thought leaders in design. The public is invited to the evening lecture free of charge to be held at the University of the Arts, 211 South Broad Street, Kaplan Recital Hall, 16th Floor. 215-717-6000

This event is organized and presented by Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater.

Describe a design of yours that floundered and/or flew – a life design, love design, work design, art design.

Inspired by your anonymous responses submitted pre-show, this unique unscripted theater ensemble instantly performs a montage of hilarious and heartbreaking scenes and monologues exploring the human experience.

Post-performance Q&A with cast; includes discussion: ‘how is improv designed?’

“Dazzling.” Inquirer.
“Hilarious….and fearless.” Phila Weekly.
“Will explode your expectations of what improvisation can be.” Phawker.
“Improv or not, this is great theater…acted with soul-baring sincerity, intelligence and humor. Go see this!” City Paper.

Tongue & Groove Artistic Director Bobbi Block is offering an Applied Improvisation workshop on Oct 14, 1 - 3pm: $18.  Buy both a show and the workshop together:  $25

This event is organized and presented by PhillyRow.

Join us for a family friendly exhibition and celebration. PhillyRow will be debuting limited edition prints featuring homes from Fishtown, Passyunk Square and Spruce Hill. Our "One-Brick Rowhouse" crafting station will be stocked with paint, stencils and other art supplies so kids of all ages can paint their own One-Brick Rowhouse. Prints available for purchase. . Bring your smocks, this may get messy!

This event is organized and presented by Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater.

Improvisers know that creating something out of nothing is a process of discovery, not invention.  
Being Present. Being open to outcome. Releasing internal scripts.  Being comfortable in the unknown. Accepting change. Flexibility in the face of disruption. Listening.
These are the skills of the improviser.  And they can be learned and applied to every aspect of work and life.

Come play in the world of improv and practice these skills! The workshop is designed to create a safe, comfortable environment in which you can release fear and explore.  No one is singled out — the activities are collaborative and supportive.  This is not about performing — it’s about learning the skills that performers use, and applying them to your own needs.  No experience necessary; Design Thinkers, Artists, and the Improv-curious are all encouraged to play.

This event is linked to Tongue & Groove's performance 'BY DESIGN.' Combine both the workshop and a performance for only $25! Purchase a ticket to the show and receive a discount code to use when purchasing the workshop. 

This workshop is taught by Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater’s Artistic Director Bobbi Block; Tongue & Groove performs BY DESIGN on Oct 13 @ 8pm and Oct 14 @ 4pm: $18.   Buy both a show and the workshop together:  $25  

This event is organized and presented by the Center for Architecture and Design.

Roll up your sleeves and get ready to plan and build the paper metropolis of your dreams! This 90-minute workshop was custom designed for the Center for Architecture and Design by a Stanford d.school professor. Kids will warm up with some rapid prototyping and 3-dimensional thinking exercises, then dive deep into their imaginations to collaboratively plan and build their dream city using Paper Punk kits (think LEGO meets Origami). "Design Thinking" concepts and techniques will guide the kids to a visually delightful hands-on model building experience. Yes, you can be anything they want to be…and for 90 minutes, everyone gets to be an architect! Ideal for ages 8-12

This event is organized and presented by the Center for Architecture and Design.

Most people cannot see ghosts. Can you? Join us for a reading of Mac Barnett's delightful tale about a helpful spirit: "Leo, A Ghost Story", illustrated by Christian Robinson. Following the reading, make your very own pop-up card featuring a ghost of your own design. Will anyone be able to see your ghost? Ideal for ages 5-8 

This event is organized and presented by Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater.

Describe a design of yours that floundered and/or flew – a life design, love design, work design, art design.

Inspired by your anonymous responses submitted pre-show, this unique unscripted theater ensemble instantly performs a montage of hilarious and heartbreaking scenes and monologues exploring the human experience.

Post-performance Q&A with cast; includes discussion: ‘how is improv designed?’

“Dazzling.” Inquirer.
“Hilarious….and fearless.” Phila Weekly.
“Will explode your expectations of what improvisation can be.” Phawker.
“Improv or not, this is great theater…acted with soul-baring sincerity, intelligence and humor. Go see this!” City Paper.

Tongue & Groove Artistic Director Bobbi Block is offering an Applied Improvisation workshop on Oct 14, 1 - 3pm: $18.  Buy both a show and the workshop together:  $25

This event is organized and presented by Philadelphia Emerging Architects, a committee of AIA Philadelphia.

Find out "What's next for Philly" from a lineup of presenters as they Fast Forward through their bold ideas and budding ventures in six-minutes-forty-seconds flat. The conversation continues offstage over light refreshments. "$5 online and at the door - FREE if pre-registered by 9/29/2017. Learn more at fastforwardphilly.blogspot.com

This event is organized and presented by Architecture Demarest.

The world around us is held to standards to ensure security and equality. How designers meet this standard is a seemingly endless series of combinations and creative problem solving. Presented by Architecture Demarest this workshop, we will work with models to showcase these spatial requirements that our built environment is molded around and explore new design solutions.

This event is organized and presented by Main Line Art Center.

Jenny Drumgoole’s Digital Artist in Residence debut coincides with Main Line Art Center’s Happily Ever After Opening Reception and Artist Talks on Friday, October 13 from 5:30-8:00pm.

Main Line Art Center is proud to announce our 2017 Digital Artist in Residence, Jenny Drumgoole. Selected by Main Line Art Center's Artistic Advisory Board through a competitive application process, Drumgoole is a Philadelphia video-based performance artist who inserts herself into marginal spaces for pseudo-celebrity within popular culture. Her most recent work involves physically and virtually infiltrating competitive events with subversive art actions, which are meant to question our obsessions with celebrity, desire and the limits and illusions of individuality in popular culture. The 2017 Digital Artist in Residence is part of the biennial festival Panorama: Image-Based Art in the 21st Century, a Greater Philadelphia-wide celebration of photography and digital art, coming in the fall of 2018.

For more information please visit www.mainlineart.org or call 610-525-0272.

This open house is a part of the Fishtown Design Crawl. Explore design businesses all around the neighborhood from 4-7pm on October 13th.

Firth & Wilson Transport Cycles is a full-service bicycle shop and retail showroom specializing in transportation and cargo bicycles. Now located at 1105 Frankford Avenue in Fishtown, the shop caters exclusively to the urban cyclist with a full range of bike accessories and bicycles from Breezer, Brompton, Linus, Pashley, Pure Fix, Pure City, Simcoe, SE, Xtracycle, Yuba, Babboe, Gazelle, Nihola, & Larry Vs. Harry. The option of a custom fabricated bicycle is also on offer, designed by the shop's owners under the labels David Wilson Industries (DWI) custom cargo bikes and Hanford Cycles custom frames.

This open house is a part of the Fishtown Design Crawl. Explore design businesses all around the neighborhood from 4-7pm on October 13th.

Bluecadet is based in an 8,400-square-foot office and production studio in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood as well as a studio in the Chelsea section of New York.

Participants will be able to see how we work on every aspect of our projects, from roadmapping, to development, to design and quality assurance.

This open house is a part of the Fishtown Design Crawl. Explore design businesses all around the neighborhood from 4-7pm on October 13th.

Metal Inc is a community Design/Build metals studio in PortRichmond. Join us, see our sculptures and what we offer in classes. Even try making something!  Light refreshments and blacksmithing demonstrations. 

This open house is a part of the Fishtown Design Crawl. Explore design businesses all around the neighborhood from 4-7pm on October 13th.

Erdy McHenry Architecture is an award-winning firm located in Northern Liberties. We invite you to tour our studio, view on-going work, network with colleagues and meet our staff over refreshments.

This open house is a part of the Fishtown Design Crawl. Explore design businesses all around the neighborhood from 4-7pm on October 13th.

At Home Modern specializes in vintage modern furniture, art and objects from the second half of the 20th century. Come browse a carefully curated selection of our finest finds, and learn about our interior styling services.

This open house is a part of the Fishtown Design Crawl. Explore design businesses all around the neighborhood from 4-7pm on October 13th.

I am a brick sculptor, whose concepts derive from the brick as a clay/earth unit. Guests can see my studio and various permanently and temporarily installed work, plus images of sculptures in various locations throughout the USA and England.

This open house is a part of the Fishtown Design Crawl. Explore design businesses all around the neighborhood from 4-7pm on October 13th.

Singletary Design Group is a small graphic design and production studio with 12 years of experience in the healthcare industry. We're excited to open our doors to the design community for the first time. Come check out our studio, meet the group and see our work. Refreshments will be available.

This open house is a part of the Fishtown Design Crawl. Explore design businesses all around the neighborhood from 4-7pm on October 13th.

GDLOFT is an award winning collaborative design studio based in Philadelphia, specializing in elevating the visibility and accessibility of creative, cultural, and educational institutions and individuals. For 15 years, we have worked with local and international artists, higher education institutions, cultural art institutions, nonprofit organizations, and much more.

This event is organized and presented by the Tyler School of Art Alumni Association.

Art Market at Tyler is a non-profit art and craft fair designed to support the regional arts community by providing artists, artist collectives, students, and businesses who serve artists a venue for sale of work, self promotion and networking. We provide an easily accessible space for holiday shoppers and collectors to find new works by emerging and established artists. Visitors will enjoy complimentary food and drinks from Victory Brewing Company during our “Crafts & Drafts” happy hour, and access to participate in maker classes and watch demonstrations. Art Market at Tyler is promoted heavily by Temple University as a signature event for Homecoming Weekend’s “Night of the Arts”. Complete schedule with information for buyers, party goers and looky-loos coming soon.

This event is organized and presented by Drexel.

HUMAN CENTERED Exploration:

o Morning Student Run Parallel Sessions: 10:30a.m. - 12p.m. | A Session showcasing participatory processes in service to the Design Research Thesis Projects.  

o USER-CENTERED RESEARCH: Lunch & Guest Speaker: 12:30-2 p.m. | KNOLL WORKPLACE RESEARCH: Kimberly Bombery Smith, Senior Director Workplace Strategy, Knoll | Introduced by Suzanne Linus Miller, Architecture & Design Manager, Knoll

o USER-CENTERED REFLECTION: Breakout Sessions: 2:30-3:45 p.m.

       · OLIN RESEARCH LAB: “Designers as Users”  

       ·  DESIGN FUTURES LAB

       · HEALTH DESIGN RESEARCH for Innovation Session: Scattergood Projects

 o IDEATION and ITERATION: Panel Discussion: 4:00-5:30 p.m.

 · Gabriela Marcu: Drexel Empathic Lab: http://www.empathicdesignandtech.org/

 · Nicole Feller Johnson: DSRE Student: http://nicolefeller-johnson.com/ 

· Daniel Newman: Architect, Adjunct Instructor MSIAD Program;                     http://www.droneactionfigure.com

· Raja Schaar: http://drexel.edu/westphal/about/directory/SchaarRaja/

· Liz Zack, Global Design Innovation, PepsiCo: http://www.pepsico.com/

· Moderated by Joshua Longo http://www.longoland.com/

o   Design Exhibit Reception: 5:30-7 p.m. THINKING_MAKING_DOING | Presenting an exhibit showcasing the iterative in design across research labs and practice:

•  Design Futures Lab
•  Olin Labs
•  Mio Design
•  Empathic Research Group
•  URBN STEAMlab
•  Raja Schaar
•  Daniel Newman Studio
•  Rosalind Sutkowski 
•  Claire King
•  Nicole Feller Johnson
• Joshua Longo

Today, artists and designers are pursuing work and creative expression that pushes the boundaries of traditional disciplines requiring interdisciplinary collaborations, the mastery of new technologies, and intensive research to unearth new solutions to practical and aesthetic problems. Join us for a symposium that examines the process of design through both collected objects and discussions.

Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design is a leading design and applied art school, ranked the fifth best applied art and design school in the nation by College Factual and with top ranked programs in Fashion Design, Interior Design and Architecture, Digital Media, and Product Design. The Westphal College Master’s program in Design Research draws upon the strengths of an outstanding faculty, superb facilities, and an extensive ongoing research portfolio. We invite you to learn more about Design Research at a free to the public symposium on Friday, October 13th being presented as part of this year’s DesignPhiladelphia Festival.

“Design Research is an exciting field, with many possibilities and a range of practices, especially in Drexel’s dynamic urban environment. The Design Research Symposium will highlight the diverse work of Drexel design researchers, and their collaborators. Attendees will have the opportunity to examine the impact of this type of work on research in technology, health and the built environment and consider where their own interests might fit into this exciting field.”

D.S. Nicholas RA, AIA, NCARB, Program Director, MS Design Research

To sign up to attend all or any part of this day of events, please email Dee Nicholas at dsn35@drexel.edu 

This event is organized and presented by Urban Consulate, 5th Square & Knight Foundation.

Join us at National Mechanics during DesignPhiladelphia for a showcase of creative citizen-led urban design projects in Philadelphia & Detroit. What are imaginative, low-budget ways to activate public space? Come hear new ideas to enliven our neighborhoods & bring people together. 

This event is organized and presented by Jefferson.

“We only sustain what we love”: This 2.5 hour lecture/workshop builds on our innate human spatial preferences, their origins, purpose and relevance for designers in meeting today’s environmental and health challenges. It introduces the science, building blocks, patterns and elements of Biophilic Design, where the experience of physiological well-being reveals itself as the most viable path to sustainability and indeed resilience. 
Participants will engage in a guided hands-on biophilic intervention and as a ‘take-away’ will have a sense of biophilic methodology. They will begin the process of experiencing a profound paradigm shift in their own design approach.

This event is organized and presented by Stantec.

Strong, long-lasting relationships directly impact the success of our communities. Stantec’s Philadelphia office has deep roots in our local neighborhoods, not only through design projects, but with community installations, events, and fundraisers. 
Last fall Stantec partnered with The Covenant House to support Philadelphia’s homeless youth. Learn how the partnership earned us the ranking of Top 10 Art Installations in Philadelphia for 2016 with the #AmICutOut art installation, in collaboration with Conrad Benner at Streets Dept, and how it impacted The Covenant House.

Please join us for a studio tour of Stantec’s Philadelphia office and learn more about who we are and what we do. Refreshments, in-house music, and great conversation will be offered.

This event is organized and presented by Tell Me a Story + Design Activist Institute.

Telling stories leads to a deeper human connection. This 90 minute interactive workshop will explore the use of personal narrative as a means to call to action, convey a message, and invite others to listen and share stories of their own. Participants can create one original story or artistic piece. Discover how to use your radical imagination to work with others for justice and ecology. 

About Tell Me A Story
Storytelling isn’t just a buzz word, it’s the root of human consciousness. Everyone has a story to tell – whether it is about your own personal background and interests, or the story of your work or organization. Tell Me A Story will introduce you to a new way of public speaking. Communicate true stories, build relationships, and connect to your audience like never before.

About Design Activist Institute
The Design Activist Institute is a Philadelphia-based, intersectional, autonomous, grassroots collective of designers working for radical, utopian resistance and building a better world. A commitment to horizontal organization with affected communities is at the core of our approach. The Institute works with other community organizers, using strategic design thinking, investigative research, and community engagement to implement design interventions that lead to lasting, palpable change.

About Hillary Rea (Facilitator)
Hillary Rea an award-winning storyteller living in Philadelphia. She is the host and producer of shows, Tell Me A Story and Fibber. Hillary is a New York City Moth StorySlam winner and has performed with the How I Learned Series, Story Collider, The Soundtrack Series, Real Characters, Speakeasy DC and more. 

Hillary is a 2016 Independence Foundation Fellow in the Arts and was a 2011 Artist-in-Residence for Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. In 2013, Hillary assistant directed 1812 Productions’ It’s My Party: The Women and Comedy Project, an interdisciplinary storytelling and theater piece.

Hillary founded Tell Me A Story in 2011. In addition to producing live storytelling, events, TMAS runs monthly storytelling classes and corporate workshops. Past clients include Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity, Dreamit, Penn Jersey Paper, Hungry Education, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pennsylvania Innocence Project, gsk, and PwC.

This event is organized and presented by the Center for Architecture and Design.

IALD, AIA, IIDA, DVASE, APAPASE, IFDA, AIGA, PA-DE ASLA, IDSA, APT, ASCE… whew! What do they all mean? Let’s break design discipline silos. Come out and meet designers across Philadelphia over drinks and snacks. Chit chat, share ideas, and hear short lightning speed presentations from local representatives of The International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA), International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), International Interior Design Association (IIDA), American Institute of Architects (AIA), Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers (DVASE), American Planning Association, Pennsylvania Chapter, Southeast Section (APAPASE), Association for Preservation Technology (APT), Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), the Pennsylvania-Delaware American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

This event is organized and presented by Cohere.

Transformational change is underway in Midtown Village, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the BID. Learn about the 1M square feet of commercial development that is changing the fabric of our city.

This walking tour will focus on the places where Philadelphians live, work, and play in Center City. Hear from developers, restaurateurs, and more on the next wave of development in Midtown Village. We’ll take a hard hat tour of Midtown construction sites, including Brickstone Realty projects the Steele Building, Swartz Building, and Hale Building. We’ll end on 13th Street, hearing from restaurateurs and enjoying a cocktail. Ticket price includes first drink.

This event is organized and presented by Health Promotion Council.

FitCityPHL is an annual full-day symposium that explores design strategies in workplaces, neighborhoods, and cities that improve health. It brings together individuals representing the sectors of public health, architecture, planning, design, landscape architecture, development,  research and evaluation, academia, philanthropy, and government to learn about how the built environment can have a positive impact on the negative health trends currently facing communities – particularly obesity and other chronic conditions.

At this year’s symposium, attendees will interact with public sector leaders in a town hall format, learn about community engagement and workplace active design strategies, and participate in several walking tours highlighting local examples of active design.

6.25 AIA LU/HSW credit available

Confirmed speakers include: Michael DiBerardinis, Philadelphia Managing Director: Joanna Frank, Executive Director, Center for Active Design, New York City; Sharon Roerty, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, Chair, Montgomery County Commissioners; Loren Robinson, Pennsylvania Deputy Secretary for Health; Dalton Paxman, Regional Health Administrator, United States Department of Health and Human Services; Christina Miller, Executive Director, Health Promotion Council, and David Ferris, Assistant Program Officer, Philadelphia Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

FitCityPHL 3 is organized by a Planning Committee comprised of representatives from Health Promotion Council; AARP Pennsylvania, Inc.; American Society of Landscape Architects - DE/PA and PA Chapter;  Center for Architecture and Design; Community Design Collaborative; Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission; Drexel University; Montgomery County Planning Commission; PennPraxis; Philadelphia City Planning Commission; Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation; Philadelphia Department of Public Health; Philadelphia Local Initiatives Support Corporation; Pennsylvania Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics; Pennsylvania Department of Health; and United States Department of Health and Human Services.

After the symposium, please join The Fabric Workshop and Museum next door at 1214 Arch Street for a Healthy Happy Hour and Fitness Tour of their current exhibtiion, Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture. Participate in physical challenges such as climbing FWM's eight flights of stairs and enjoy a healthy shot of wheatgrass.

This event is organized and presented by Collab at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Center for Architecture and Design.

Collab at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Center for Architecture + Design invite you to meet Tyler Hays, founder of BDDW. A visionary designer and 21st century craft entrepreneur, Tyler has won accolades from the design community and beyond for his ability to marry the fine craftsmanship of a luxury atelier with an appealingly rustic American aesthetic that appeals to a wide (but discerning) audience. He has been described in the pages of the New York Times as an “obsessive, eccentric master craftsman,” and Tyler’s Philadelphia studio produces furniture, ceramics, clothing, beer, one-of-a-kind turntables and other objects for his high-end Milan and Soho showrooms, BDDW and M.Crow.

At this special DesignPhiladelphia event, Tyler will talk about his career as a painter, sculptor, designer and maker of many things, who is forging a sophisticated aesthetic while working in a homegrown, vernacular style.

Guests will then be invited to embark on a treasure hunt in the Museum’s 17th and 18th century decorative arts galleries, where they will seek and find some of Tyler’s pieces temporarily positioned within the elegant sweep of design history.

This event is organized and presented by Go Welsh  / AIGA Philadelphia

Referencing archival engineering drawings from the early 20th century we have designed a new font, Stack. It is historically true to the spirit of industrial chimney (smokestack) lettering of the period. Masonry chimneys in the industrial age provided strong, clear brand identities for companies and townspeople alike. As the visual language of the industrial age acquiesces we strive to keep the sense of permanence alive that industrial chimney lettering once so clearly expressed.

In our presentation we will:
01) Review the historic aspects of the origins, materials, and size/scale of the industrial chimney lettering
02) Demonstrate the flexibility of the Stack font - horizontal, vertical, ornaments, patterning, borders

Go Welsh and AIGA Philadelphia are exhibiting STACK at Bluecadet, 1526 Frankford Ave. A First Friday opening reception is October 6, 6-9pm.