Seattle Design Festival 2024
In collaboration with Gensler and Creo Industrial Arts
“We’re challenging our relationship to architecture in order to provoke new ideas of sustainability. We need radical ideas that go beyond reducing and offsetting carbon. So how can we inspire new thinking at a two-day festival? We decided to partner with creative practices adjacent to architecture that offer unique points of view on sustainability.
Our bare-bones pavilion provides a structure for zero-waste fashion designer and artist Janelle Abbott to lead a weaving project. The architecture serves as a loom where discarded clothing will be cut and woven into intricate tapestries by festival attendees. In this way, the pavilion’s appearance will be shaped by the community’s participation.
After the festival, the pavilion’s structure will be donated to the Beacon Food Forest, where it will serve its next life as a shelter and trellis. As a place for planting, growing, and relaxing, the pavilion will become part of the community garden itself.
Our goal with the pavilion is for participants to walk away with more questions than answers. Questions that open our collective minds to new possibilities.
What if…”
