Accelerating good design: DDF presents a week of creative happenings
The eight-day design festival will feature lectures, exhibitions, fashion shows, workshops, interactive installations, art battles, studio tours, and performances at 50 different venues across Detroit. Can you feel all that energy coursing through the city grid? We can.
The eight-day design festival will feature lectures, exhibitions, fashion shows, workshops, interactive installations, art battles, studio tours, and performances at 50 different venues across Detroit. Read Model D Startup editor Jon Zemke’s report here.
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DDF is the first-known crowd-sourced design festival in Detroit, meaning all of the ‘design happenings’ that are scheduled to take place during the eight-day festival were developed by, and will be executed by, designers and creative people from across the metro Detroit area.
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- Three Design Stars in Three Acts: What’s Your Latest Obsession? Sept. 22, 6 p.m. at the Fillmore Theatre, 2115 Woodward Ave, downtown Detroit. Three storied, award winning designers partners from Goodby Silverstein & Partners–Rich Silverstein, Keith Anderson and Christian Haas–gather to share what they are currently obsessing about in design.
- D’s Creatures Sept. 24, 6 p.m. at the Dagleish Cadillac Building, 6161 Woodward Ave., Detroit. A collection of large scale creatures (sculptures). Each represents a specific aspect of Detroit life, history, or culture that has been pulled from the minds of Detroit artists. Â
- EAT.SLEEP.DRAW. Sept. 24, 3-8 p.m. at Red Door Gallery, 7500 Oakland Street, Detroit. This event unmasks the cliché of the starving artist who simply eats, sleeps and draws each day of his or her life.
- Art Battle Sept. 28, 3 — 8 p.m. at the Alley Project (TAP) Gallery, 9233 Avis, Detroit. An art battle is about an experience of art in motion where the public is living through the process of what the artists is creating. It’s a mix of art and performance and is about raw art being created in a raw environment where much of the focus is on engaging the community.
The majority of the ‘design happenings’ are free to attend, however there are some that do have a fee. The schedule is up here.
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