Design Week – October 18-22!
As a proud member of the Salt Lake City creative community, Sparano + Mooney Architecture is excited to welcome the 2021 edition of Salt Lake Design Week! This year’s event will be held in-person from October 18-22 at various downtown locations. As Salt Lake City architects deeply committed to producing, experiencing and helping inspire high-caliber design, we are eager to sample the multitude of events that this stellar event will offer.
Salt Lake Design Week promotes and celebrates the creativity of Utah architects and designers across a multitude of media, including architecture, product, interior, graphic, photography, digital, motion, fashion and advertising. This forum provides a vital platform for designers, businesses, professionals, students and members of the public to engage and interact with the region’s diverse and thriving design scene. The series of collaborative and inspiring events seeks to build a stronger local creative community, in turn raising awareness of the impact of design throughout the state and beyond. Significantly, Design Week is inclusive of all people and disciplines, and continues to engage, educate and motivate diverse participants in critical thinking about design.
The keynote address will be from The Office of Ordinary Things, a socially and environmentally-conscious design studio based in San Francisco that has been recognized by Creative Review, Dezeen and Fast Company. Additional events will include: “The Future of Design is Circular”, a panel discussion from Principal Design Company and Clever Octopus Creative Reuse Center exploring how to design in order to divert materials from landfills; “Make-a-Mari”, a workshop in which each participant will build their own Sedia 1 chair by renowned Italian designer Enzo Mari, facilitated by the Wasatch Design Collective; and “Designing for Non-Profits”, a collaborative session focusing on how the scale of social impact design relates to the scale of architectural and graphic design interventions; and several studio and agency tours, which form an integral component of Design Week. Tour stops this year include Gantry, Riso Geist, Struck and Made by Fell at Design Dairy. These tours offer eye-opening insight into the creative processes honed by some of the city’s most notable design firms. And, as part of Salt Lake Design Week, we invite you to visit the online Design Arts ’21 Exhibition, which features the award-winning Oikos Residence project designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture!
Salt Lake Design Week is hosted annually by the Salt Lake City chapter of AIGA, the Professional Association for Design, and is presented by digital design and development agency, Underbelly. For more information, and to purchase tickets to selected events, please visit the Salt Lake Design Week website.
We’ll definitely be checking out this year’s events, but if we don’t have the chance to meet during Salt Lake Design Week, we’d love the opportunity to discuss our design philosophy and to create a unique work of sustainable architecture for your next cultural, civic, institutional, worship or residential project in the American West!