Vancouver Blueprint Week(End) Starts Friday!
Thursday, 11 May 2017
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Vancouver's official interdisciplinary pattern festival is back. After a successful kickoff installation inwards 2014, Vancouver Design Week (VDW) is returning to showcase Vancouver’s defining pattern talent. This year’s festival volition endure an abridged programme - a Vancouver Design Week(end), leading upwards to a 10-day programme inwards 2018. VDW volition kicking off alongside a world launch political party Fri May 12th, co-presented yesteryear VIVA Vancouver, HCMA, the DVBIA, Roaming Dragon, Faculty Brewing as well as others; as well as volition follow alongside ii days of opened upwards door programming , featuring: Open Studios, Open Buildings, Tastings as well as an Open Call. Together these events volition allow earth to engage alongside over 45 established as well as emerging talents from across the wide spectrum of Vancouver’s pattern community.
Three Major Design Districts as well as Lots to See
The highlights of this twelvemonth include: opened upwards studios at Patkau Architects, MGA, Burnkit, the Aviary, Casrscadden, Perkins+Will, PFS Landscape Architects, Yew Woodshop, alongside particular workshops as well as programs including an in-studio presentation alongside Nicole Bridger, as well as live-shoemaking at Westerly handmade shoes; opened upwards edifice tours of 430 House yesteryear D’Arcy Jones (in collaboration alongside Vancouver Special as well as Rise Kombucha); Telus Garden yesteryear Henriquez Partners Architects, the novel Crosstown Elementary schoolhouse yesteryear Francl Architecture, as well as Adler University yesteryear Public Architecture as well as Communications; as well as Tastings at Small Victory Bakery alongside designer Leckie Studio, as well as a Pantone tea blending cocktail sense yesteryear Tealeaves at Fairmont Pacific Rim - a PalletteForYourPalate.
These events as well as to a greater extent than are organized into 3 major districts. Venues inwards East Vancouver,
Railtown, as well as Strathcona volition opened upwards their doors Sabbatum May 13th from eleven to 2pm; venues inwards Gastown, Chinatown, Crosstown, Downtown as well as Yaletown Sabbatum from 1 to 4pm; as well as all locations South of False creek Dominicus May 14th from 1 to 4pm (after Mother’s 24-hour interval brunch).
“We choose globe cast pattern talent living as well as working inwards our city, as well as Vancouver Design Week(end) is a unique chance to larn nigh the creative talent shaping it. With almost l pattern events inwards ii days - you’ll require to programme your trip earlier you lot become to gibe it all in.” says Jennifer Cutbill , manager + co-founder of the VDW. ‘Vancouver Design Week is actually [about] bringing [design] to the public. Not the highbrow conversation that happens behind museum walls, simply the conversation that happens on the jitney inwards the morning.’ —MICHAEL GREEN, MGA
Feature Participants
“Vancouverites appreciate intelligent design. Design that is useful, beautiful inwards a to a greater extent than natural way, simple, sustainable as well as made well”, says eco fashion designer Nicole Bridger equally player of Vancouver Design Week as well as continues, “We practice non choose onetime traditions of manufacture similar other countries. It liberates us to create whatsoever nosotros want.” Architect D’arcy Jones adds “Vancouver pattern has the greatest touching on when it embraces regionalism, our greyness climate, our nature as well as pluralism, stirring the pot to build something new.”
The total number listing is on their site, alongside all venues easily located alongside a custom interactive map (designed yesteryear foundational VDW organizing squad members Denim&Steel).
Part of a Global Network
Since 2015, Vancouver Design Week (VDW) has been a player inwards the World Design Week Network (WDWN). Officially launching equally an international organization during Helsinki Design Week this fall, Vancouver’s formal membership inwards the WDWN volition connect it to cities across the globe - from established pattern centres similar London, Milan, Barcelona as well as Tokyo to emergents similar Reykjavik, United Mexican U.S. City, as well as Portland. These cities sympathize the advantages of supporting as well as celebrating a strong pattern civilisation - from boosting their economy, edifice their build to creating healthier as well as happier cities inwards which to live, operate as well as thrive.
“ The Great Britain has a National Design Council. Helsinki has a Chief Design Officer. Barcelona has a Design Centre - alongside a mandate to invest inwards pattern equally a strategic tool for innovation, economical excellence, as well as improving character of life. Beyond attracting international attending to our globe cast pattern talent; participation inwards the WDWN gives us the chance to convey dorsum inspiring examples of what’s possible when cities invest inwards the transformative ability of design. ” comments Jennifer Cutbill , manager + co-founder
About the VDW Platform
Vancouver Design Week is a not-for-profit social enterprise, created yesteryear a passionate squad of volunteers from across pattern disciplines; alongside the back upwards of generous contributions of time, talent as well as resources from the larger pattern community. In collaboration alongside some of the city’s most renowned designers, pattern institutions, entrepreneurs, educators, thinkers, as well as makers, Vancouver Design Week has been willed into existence yesteryear a shared belief that pattern is imperative to improving the character as well as potential of our city.