Unlike models of finished buildings, this exhibition displays three-dimensional expressions of design thinking.

Designers from across the country will participate in a juried competition for a Street Seats freestanding pavilion to be created and installed during the 2013 Portland Design Festival.

The first annual Center For Architecture photography exhibition features the work of local photographers Laurie Black, Richard Lishner, Michael Mather, David Papazian, and Josh Partee. The exhibit explores natural and built environments concerning the practice of framing urban visualscapes.

The Opening Night Party will feature food, drinks and entertainment by Dig-A-Pony, Sweet Hereafter, and the Bye and Bye: three local establishments with a focus on Portland Design. 

Portland is alive with its community of artists, activists, and craftspeople whose creations are thought-provoking, diverse, quirky, and well-considered. How does this reality impact our creative output and the identity of designers who operate nationally and internationally?

Explore Portland's striking building facades and architectural details through your camera lens! This two-hour walking tour will commence at the Center for Architecture, and will then guide you to the most photo-friendly structures around NW Portland.

The event will celebrate the famed landscape architect Lawrence Halprin’s “Portland Open-Space Sequence” – a series of four urban fountain plazas that culminate in the dramatic Forecourt Fountain(now called Keller Fountain) – described by New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable as “one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance”.

Peter Meijer and Becca Cavell, co-founders of the Oregon Chapter of DoCoMoMo and leaders of two Portland architecture firms, will reprise a debate they first presented at a Modernism symposium in Florida earlier this year.

Join us for a presentation featuring a retrospective of environmental graphic design including prominent designers and projects.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland.

Shaping space with light, playing with the qualities of transparency, refraction, reflection and color spectrum, this feature of lighting designs from regional artists, designers and makers will lead into and through the darkest months of the year.

Explore Portland’s most interesting studios, retailers, makers, workspaces, offices, and firms. Check out the Open House app, coming in September! Visit Design Week Portland for more information!

MoCC is pleased to feature Jason Sturgill for October's Davis Street Residency. Join us at The Gallery Story, Museum of Contemporary Craft.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Everyone has ideas. But what where do they come from? And what ensures they keep coming? How do you sort the genius ideas from the useless ones? Why invest all this hope and energy into making things in the first place?

Randy Hunt is the Creative Director at Etsy, where he leads a team of designers creating the end-to-end experience, both online and off. Hunt feels strongly that designers must be able to build what they design, a perspective that fits naturally with Etsy’s culture of making and the love of craftsmanship.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Dissecting Design seeks to understand how great design is achieved using processes and design systems that take us from an understanding of client or consumer need to initial designs to iteration to the production of the final product.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Join 600 colleagues to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of Benson Industries, an Oregon company that is a sought-after provider of custom systems for some of Oregon's and the world's most intricate and interesting buildings.

Mark Ray (owner and executive creative director of NORTH, founder of Undertow Music Collective) and Dave Allen (NORTH’s Director of Interactive Strategies and bassist for post-punk band Gang of Four) will head up a panel discussing, among other things.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Businesses of all kinds are considering a shift from the commodity-oriented selling of goods to a more service-oriented selling of experiences. How will designers play a role in shaping retail’s future, and designing for it?

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

A three-day immersive, interactive experience, Blurred Lines features installations by the region’s leading design studios, each creating interactions that incorporate light, sound, images, motion, culture and history.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Beth Aala’s debut documentary is an inspiring and enjoyable tale of an urban renewal success story, charting an inevitable journey from decay to gentrification to commercialization.

This year's focus for the annual Green Champion Summit is a call to action for designers to reclaim a position on civic engagement, advancing urban policies and environmental leadership.

Co-sponsored by Bitch Magazine and Museum of Contemporary Craft, this event is a two-fold investigation into conversations relating to women in the field of design, both as creators and as consumers.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Friday Forums give complex subjects relevance and clarity, and keep Oregonians informed about the most pressing issues of our time. City Club welcomes members and nonmembers to Friday Forums.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Columbia Sportswear has been a part of the Portland design community for 75 years since 1938 and has created and produced some innovative technologies in the outdoor world, from hats, to ski jackets, to fishing vests. We want to celebrate Columbia’s artistic and talented design by curating a show that expresses our outdoor creativity.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

"The Shape of Story" is a technological framework designed to capture and visualize audience feedback in a theater setting. When coupled with content that encourages civic engagement, this technology has the potential to advance the role of journalism to share stories and information and to identify potential shifts in sentiments. Within a moderated setting, this framework can facilitate conversation and discourse to empower the community to have a voice on a local or national issue.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

The evening will feature risk-taking 8 storytellers that you'll recognize from the design world including ADAM ARNOLD, KATE BINGAMAN-BURT, ARTHUR BRADFORD, NICOLE J. GEORGES, LEATHER STORRS and more announced soon!

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

This year's Design Matters: A Tour of Exceptional Portland Homes is focusing on small and smart homes designed by Portland Architects.  This one of a kind tour provides design enthusiasts with a rare glimpse into unique area residences designed by Architects. 

Join furniture maker turned woodworking tool designer John Economaki as he and other guests discuss entrepreneurship in Portland.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Join us to celebrate the process of making, the spirit of community and design in action. Proceeds from this event will go to support All Hands Raised First Octave, a grant to raise money for arts and music education in the under-served Portland and Multnomah schools.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

Presented by urbanlabPDX, this charrette/competition explores potential solutions for covering the City of Portland's Mt. Tabor water reservoirs.

Using handwoven carpets and textiles for hands-on demonstration, Atelier Lapchi along with an expert in contemporary weaving will give an informative talk on the different weaving techniques used in carpet production, as well as on the quality and sustainability of the materials used, dyes and dying techniques and how these practices vary from country to country.

Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron takes us to the party atmosphere of mealtime among the grape-pickers in the dining hall designed by Herzog & de Meuron in Pomerol for one of the most prestigious vineyards in the world.

A beautifully shot documentary that unfolds with Zen-like calm, offering a sublime and informative study of modern Japanese architecture, its roots in Japanese tradition and its impact on European architecture, particularly in the Nordic nations.

In its fourth year, Live the Revolution is the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s annual evening of live storytelling to celebrate bicycling culture and design. Whether finding the perfect balance of form and function in a new bicycle frame, or crafting routes to work around existing bicycle facilities and infrastructure, bicyclists have deep, lived experience of design.

An Evening With the Jury provides both members and the public to meeting leading architects from around the country and learn more about their work and their approach to design.

Join us at Leftbank Annex for Portland’s “festival season” after-party!

Iñaki Alday is founder and principal with Margarita Jover of aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje, a multidisciplinary practice based in Barcelona, dedicated to the creation of public spaces, landscapes, and buildings, and focused on the integration of scales, non-traditional programs, and social and environmental ethics.