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For its tenth anniversary, the Seattle Design Festival, presented by Design in Public and AIA Seattle, will be held from August 15th to the 23rd. The nine-day festival regularly hosts over 30,000 visitors, including architects, designers, and business and civic leaders. The event explores how... View full entry
"'Are you going to do beautiful architecture or do-gooder architecture?' I want to do neither and both." [...]
"It's not like you're going to design some single product that revolutionizes the way people shape the world around them," Surface said. "You have to change fundamentally how your organization is structured, how your resources are allocated, stop thinking of yourself as a gatekeeper. It's about redistributing how power and decision making and resources are divided between people."
— thestranger.com
Prompted by her work with Design in Public in Seattle, this profile of Susan Surface dips into her professional and personal background to designing like she gives a damn, covering the diversity of ways she seeks to question the power structures that perpetuate socially irresponsible or... View full entry
