ByDesign Festival 2021
ByDesign Festival 2021
March 19 – 28
Co-presented with Northwest Film Forum + Design in Public
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
ByDesign Festival is a cross-cultural exploration of people, structures, and ideas at the intersection of design and the moving image.
Featuring a broad, inclusive selection of films, performances, and interactive activities, ByDesign invites festivalgoers to interrogate their own relationships to personal and collective identity, by examining how humanity’s understanding of itself is central to the ways in which it creates the physical world.
VDC + NWFF offerings
Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story, With Narration by Martha Stewart
Guided by recent developments in neuroscience, Built Beautiful presents ideas, architects, and researchers who have a scientific interest on the built environment’s impact on societal health and individual well-being. Using a wide selection of trends and patterns from all over the world, the documentary reflects on past architectural choices and highlights the emerging paradigm shift towards more human-conscious design.
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BODY-BUILDINGS w/ The Sweetheart Tree
“There’s a TedTalk interview with Siamak Hariri, the architect and genius behind the new Baha’i temple in South America, where he speaks about how to build a sacred space. He mentions a man who is so touched by a concrete building and how spaces can touch us as humans. It is from here that I decided to create a piece exploring the idea of sacred space and how any space can be sacred if you pay attention to what’s happening within it. This piece is a beginning idea of much larger projects to come in the future.” — Amanda Morgan
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Within | Between | Among: Short Film Program
In Chanel | Sharing all my colours with you, Dutch-Surinamese dancer Chanel Vyent removes society’s imposed straitjacket and steps outside — to freely explore her body’s relationship to architecture, shape, color, and form.
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