The theme for this year’s festival is “CONNECT” - a concept that invites artists, designers, architects, and creatives to explore how ideas and communities can be brought together through design.
Connect signifies more than just physical or structural links. It encompasses emotional, cultural, historical, and social relationships that define how we engage with our surroundings and with each other.
Join us for interactive installations, collaborative workshops, and engaging conversations, to help us consider how design can establish new relationships between people, places, and ideas.
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The Winnipeg Design Festival is committed to building upon the culture of design in Winnipeg, one to rival that of other great design capitals around the world. Winnipeg is recognized internationally as a city with unique artistic and cultural offerings. StorefrontMB’s ambition is to cultivate and celebrate local design culture and further propel Winnipeg’s reputation as a cultural hub.
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The Winnipeg Design Festival builds interdisciplinary relationships and partnerships with industry, like-minded organizations and institutes that promote the value of design and the city. It also endeavours to connect professionals, designers, artists and industry with the broader community in order to foster design-based dialogue. Festival events are the primary mode of engagement and include lectures, forums, interactive installations, tours, and exhibits.
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