Santa Fe Design Week 2006, the city's annual design showcase, is comprised of over 80 events taking place during eight compelling days of community-inspired design, creativity and innovation. The finest in traditional, contemporary, and innovative architecture, interior design, green-build technology, renewable energy, graphic design, furniture, fashion, and sustainable resources will be on display and under discussion, October 22-29, 2006.
Santa Fe has established itself as a center for forward-thinking design and is America's First UNESCO Creative City in Design and Folkart. This year's Design Week will coincide with an international Planning Conference of UNESCO Creative City delegates who will be meeting in Santa Fe to explore ideas for creative tourism and resources for cultural entrepreneurs. The UNESCO conference and Design Week's forum for new ideas and technologies create a synergy of influences that will bring far-reaching effects to both Santa Fe and the international community in the use of creativity and design for a new, emerging global economy.
Last year's Design Week event attracted thousands of visitors and locals interested in updating their home's décor with the latest interior design trends and products, learning what's new in green and sustainable design, and how to implement new techniques in home construction. For 2006 there will be an even larger presentation of ideas for the built environment during the Design Expo. The expo will showcase interior design products and services, landscape concepts, renewable energy technology, water catchment systems, workshops, artisanal furniture, tiles and fixtures, and innovative interior treatments. In addition, there will be a juried furniture show, a runway fashion show, green design and sustainable building tracks, and an Architectural Design competition. The Design Expo will take place October 27-29 at the Museo Cultural in the Santa Fe Railyard.
Escorted tours will be an important part of Design Week, showing first hand the origins of the region's distinctive design and how modern concepts are implemented in the real world. Most significantly, a five day tour of architecture past and present will be conducted by Italo Lupi, internationally renowned architect, designer, and publisher of the Italian design magazine, Abitare. The five day, all-inclusive tour will take in 18th Century Mission churches, earthships, biotectures, a visit to pre-Columbian Chaco Canyon, various museums, contemporary Santa Fe homes, and much more. Registration for this tour is through Seven Directions tour company, 505-820-3305. For more information, www.santafedesignweek.com/program_tourNNM.php
Bus tours of American Institute of Architecture award-winning projects in commercial, affordable housing, and interior categories will also be conducted during Design Week. Plus, a tour of fabulous local homes by well-known local designers will take place on October 26 in conjunction with a presentation by internationally-renowned designers David Sutherland and Western Interiors & Design Magazine editor Michael Wollaeger. David and Michael will discuss the most current trends in design, their sources of inspiration, and how designers work with interior designers to create custom products. For more information,
www.santafedesignweek.com/program_tourinteriordesign.php
The list of keynote speakers is extensive and includes internationally known design experts: Italo Lupi, Italian Architect and Editor in Chief of Abitare magazine; Ed Mazria, Santa Fe-based architect and creator of Challenge 2030 (a national plan for reducing and ultimately eliminating the carbon footprint of new construction); Hazel Henderson, futurist and founder of Ethical Markets Media; Elaine Dundon, author of The Seeds of Innovation; and many more.
Santa Fe Design Week is also about community. For 2006, several design competitions were created to have long-lasting effects in Santa Fe and serve as models for similar projects that can be applied anywhere.
Santa Fe's new administration has vowed to put the city at the forefront of green, sustainable, and energy-efficient design, backing up the commitment by being the first city to sign on to Challenge 2030; a plan adopted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through better construction techniques. While the city has been a shopping resource of western interior designers for years, and has led the nation in per capita water conservation over the last several decades, it is expanding its reach. Santa Fe Design Week is a natural progression in the city's evolution, pairing its reputation as a place of history, culture and art with a growing commitment to defining the future through thoughtful design.
For further information:
Linda Milanesi
Grace Communications
505.438.8735
505.699.1110
lindam505@earthlink.net
For Design Week photos email janet@gracecom.ws, Grace Communications www.santafedesignweek.com
Santa Fe has established itself as a center for forward-thinking design and is America's First UNESCO Creative City in Design and Folkart. This year's Design Week will coincide with an international Planning Conference of UNESCO Creative City delegates who will be meeting in Santa Fe to explore ideas for creative tourism and resources for cultural entrepreneurs. The UNESCO conference and Design Week's forum for new ideas and technologies create a synergy of influences that will bring far-reaching effects to both Santa Fe and the international community in the use of creativity and design for a new, emerging global economy.
Last year's Design Week event attracted thousands of visitors and locals interested in updating their home's décor with the latest interior design trends and products, learning what's new in green and sustainable design, and how to implement new techniques in home construction. For 2006 there will be an even larger presentation of ideas for the built environment during the Design Expo. The expo will showcase interior design products and services, landscape concepts, renewable energy technology, water catchment systems, workshops, artisanal furniture, tiles and fixtures, and innovative interior treatments. In addition, there will be a juried furniture show, a runway fashion show, green design and sustainable building tracks, and an Architectural Design competition. The Design Expo will take place October 27-29 at the Museo Cultural in the Santa Fe Railyard.
Escorted tours will be an important part of Design Week, showing first hand the origins of the region's distinctive design and how modern concepts are implemented in the real world. Most significantly, a five day tour of architecture past and present will be conducted by Italo Lupi, internationally renowned architect, designer, and publisher of the Italian design magazine, Abitare. The five day, all-inclusive tour will take in 18th Century Mission churches, earthships, biotectures, a visit to pre-Columbian Chaco Canyon, various museums, contemporary Santa Fe homes, and much more. Registration for this tour is through Seven Directions tour company, 505-820-3305. For more information, www.santafedesignweek.com/program_tourNNM.php
Bus tours of American Institute of Architecture award-winning projects in commercial, affordable housing, and interior categories will also be conducted during Design Week. Plus, a tour of fabulous local homes by well-known local designers will take place on October 26 in conjunction with a presentation by internationally-renowned designers David Sutherland and Western Interiors & Design Magazine editor Michael Wollaeger. David and Michael will discuss the most current trends in design, their sources of inspiration, and how designers work with interior designers to create custom products. For more information,
www.santafedesignweek.com/program_tourinteriordesign.php
The list of keynote speakers is extensive and includes internationally known design experts: Italo Lupi, Italian Architect and Editor in Chief of Abitare magazine; Ed Mazria, Santa Fe-based architect and creator of Challenge 2030 (a national plan for reducing and ultimately eliminating the carbon footprint of new construction); Hazel Henderson, futurist and founder of Ethical Markets Media; Elaine Dundon, author of The Seeds of Innovation; and many more.
Santa Fe Design Week is also about community. For 2006, several design competitions were created to have long-lasting effects in Santa Fe and serve as models for similar projects that can be applied anywhere.
- An international architecture ideas competition to revitalize a mixed income neighborhood will lead the way in defining sustainable community. By bringing the best practices in green building and neighborhood design, the Hopewell Mann subsidized/workforce housing project will be revisioned, integrating architecture with an urban landscape to create connections to the community and the surrounding neighborhood. A consensus building forum was held with neighborhood residents to collect their ideas about what the new design should include. In this way, architecture is being seen from the inside out, beginning with the community.
- The Chairs for Charity project will contribute funds to an artist's favorite charity from the sale of a recycled chair that's been turned into a fanciful creation. A silent auction will determine the winner in professional, novice, and student designer categories. In conjunction with Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival.
- The Furniture Design Competition is a chance for New Mexico furniture craftsmen and non-furniture artisans to display their work in a juried format. Judging will be done in four categories: Traditional New Mexican; Contemporary; Collaboration between two or more artisans using two or more materials; Collaboration between a designer and an artisan. The winning pieces will be displayed throughout Design Week.
- Last year's playground workshop at Design Week led to a new children's playground being built in Santa Fe this fall in the Pueblos del Sol neighborhood. Another playground design will be created during this year's Design Week with the hope that these projects will be an annual part of future Design Weeks.
Santa Fe's new administration has vowed to put the city at the forefront of green, sustainable, and energy-efficient design, backing up the commitment by being the first city to sign on to Challenge 2030; a plan adopted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through better construction techniques. While the city has been a shopping resource of western interior designers for years, and has led the nation in per capita water conservation over the last several decades, it is expanding its reach. Santa Fe Design Week is a natural progression in the city's evolution, pairing its reputation as a place of history, culture and art with a growing commitment to defining the future through thoughtful design.
For further information:
Linda Milanesi
Grace Communications
505.438.8735
505.699.1110
lindam505@earthlink.net
For Design Week photos email janet@gracecom.ws, Grace Communications www.santafedesignweek.com