Deanna Van Buren
APRIL 10-12, 2024
ARCHITECT / DEVELOPER / ADVOCATE FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
Oakland, California
Strong Towns: Charles Marohn
FEBRUARY 21-23
CIVIL ENGINEER, LAND USE PLANNER, AUTHOR, ACTIVIST
Brainerd, Minnesota
Ellen Lupton
December 6-8, 2023
GRAPHIC DESIGNER, TYPOGRAPHER, EDUCATOR, AUTHOR
Baltimore, Maryland
Erin Moore
Oct 4-6, 2023
ARCHITECT
Eugene, Oregon
ADF + ANCHORAGE DESIGN WEEK
Join us for a special edition of PechaKucha night, focused on the topic of housing.
THURSDAY, FEB 22 @ SEED LAB
Happy Hour @ 5:30pm
pechakucha presentations @ 7pm
presenting our 2022 SPEAKER SERIES
This season, we explore hidden meanings in the designed environment, ambiguity and mystery in branded imagery, incognito uses of public space, and design secrets that hide behind the surface of the things.
THANK YOU to all of our sponsors, speakers, and supporters for another wonderful season! We look forward to announcing our 2023 Speaker Series soon.
Casper Mork Ulnes
NOVEMBER 9/10/11
ARCHITECT | San Francisco, CA + Oslo, Norway
Learn more at morkulnes.com >>
Wade and Leta
8/25 - Anchorage - SEED Lab - 6:30pm
8/27 - Cooper Landing - Camp K - Register Here
BRANDING / EXPERIENTIAL / PHOTOGRAPHY / DESIGN
Brooklyn, NY
Learn more at wadeandleta.com >>
2021 SPEAKER SERIES
The Alaska Design Forum is excited to announce our 2021 lecture series. "PLAY" seeks to investigate the power of play. Similar to design with its power to provoke human emotions and experiences, the power of play has an innate humanistic allure that provokes excitement and desire.
Rosan Bosch
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
ARTIST/DESIGNER/PLAY CONSULTANT
Copenhagen, Denmark
Learn more at rosanbosch.com >
Ronald Rael
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
DESIGNER, ACTIVIST, ARCHITECT, AUTHOR
California
Miriam Shevland
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Hobart, Tasmania, AU
Learn more at playstreet.com.au >
Neil Durbach
NEW TIME: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
ARCHITECT
Sydney, AU
Learn more at durbachblockjaggers.com >
2020 Speaker Series
Revised Utopias
The Alaska Design Forum invites our community to join a conversation in 2020 around the theme of REVISED UTOPIAS. Picking up from 2019’s POLAR SHIFT theme, we seek to engage a discussion of the adjusted ideals that come after radical change, the re-worked goals that result from unforeseen events, and the evolving landscape of optimism in design.
Chris Drury
12/08/2020
LAND ARTIST // UK
Tucker Viemeister
February 17, 18, 19 - 2020
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER // NY
Günther Vogt
09/01/2020
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT // ZURICH
Michael Ford
11/05/2020
HIP HOP ARCHITECT // MADISON, WI
Bill Posters
10/06/2020
HACKTIVIST & STREET ARTIST // LONDON
Nathan Shafer
03/31/2020
DESIGNER & EDUCATOR // ANCHORAGE, AK
2019 Speaker Series
Polar Shift
We live in a time of massive change, of human culture and technology and consequently, of our biosphere. The effects of change are magnified at the poles, at the extreme ends of both ideology and geography.
In our POLAR SHIFT lecture series, we explore the implications of shifting paradigms. How do designers respond to shifts in landscape, institutional thinking, climate and economics? And can designers enact their own shifts in our notions of what is possible, prudent or necessary?
In Alaska, we live at one polar extreme of the rapid changes that are defining a new northern reality. POLAR SHIFT is about expanding our view from melting glaciers to the myriad patterns of human action and reaction that underlie the visual symptoms.
Alaska faces real consequences from global warming. A change in thinking is necessary in terms of the way we manage and respond to changes in Alaska’s vast landscape, with our municipalities and cities, with our farms and our seaways, our infrastructure and our forests.
David Buckland
Artist / Dorset, England
Klein Dytham
Architect / Japan
Bryan C. Lee, Jr.
Designer, Design Justice Advocate / New Orleans
Stefan Sjöberg
Architect / Sweden
SITU Studio
Architecture / New York
Biotope
Architecture / Norway
Michael Murphy (MASS Design Group)
Architecture / Boston
David Garcia, MAP Architects
Architect, Educator & Researcher / Copenhagen
Matthew Burtner, Ecosono
Composer & Eco-Acoustician / Virginia
Fly By Design: Australia
NOVEMBER 2019
Fly By Design: AUSTRALIA took place on November 3-10, 2019. The tour explored the cultural capitals of Eastern Australia. Guests spent four nights in Sidney and three nights in Melbourne, and experienced architectural icons, met design practitioners and explored art, cuisine, landscape, music and fashion – to better connect with the places and culture.
Pecha Kucha 2019
Three evenings of the high-energy series of short presentations.
ANC Design Week
ADF collaborated with the Anchorage Museum and AIGA Alaska on programs for Anchorage Design Week 2019.
2017/18 SPEAKER SERIES
Automata
With AUTOMATA, we were interested in understanding how embedded technology and automation change our perception of and experience in the built environment. We also wondered how robotics and advanced materials and construction methods are being utilized by designers. Our lecturers included artists and designers who employ automation in their work as well as those whose design ideas take advantage of ambient technologies.
Hugh Broughton
Architect / London
Wolfgang Buttress
Artist / Nottingham
Skylar Tibbits, MIT Self-Assembly Lab
Cambridge, MA
Maura Rockcastle and Ross Altheimer, Ten x Ten Studio
Landscape Architects / Minneapolis
Dave Pigram, supermanoeuvre
Architect & Innovator / Zurich
FLY BY DESIGN 2018
Japan
Fly By Design: JAPAN took place in March, 2018. The first half of the tour was based in Tokyo, where guests took in layers of history and architecture ranging from traditional shrines and 1960s Metabolist concrete superstructures to the creations of contemporary visionaries who push boundaries on today’s built environment.
The second half of the journey transported guests on the Shinkansen Bullet Train and a marine ferry to the countryside islands of Naoshima, Teshima, and Inujima. Contrasting the serene natural environments, guests visited museums and art installations by respected architects and artists, including Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Tadao Ando, James Turrell, Lee Ufan, Walter De Maria, Yayoi Kusama, and Claude Monet. Staying at the Benesse House provided special access to the wonders of these surreal art islands.
2016/17 SPEAKER SERIES
Nostalgia
NOSTALGIA celebrated the ways in which designers and artists embrace, reject or leverage the human tendency towards nostalgia, or the yearning for a previous time, place or experience.
We explored how nostalgia affects the design process consciously or unconsciously. Is there any truth to “everything old is new again”? Are there new ideas or just new re-interpretations of previous thinking?
Hugh Broughton
Architect / London
LOCAL LEGENDS: Charles Bettisworth, Larry Cash, Wayne Jensen, John McCool
Architects / Alaska
Cas Holman
Toy Designer / Rhode Island
Duffy
Graphic Designers / Minneapolis
Judith Clark & Adam Phillips
Fashion & Psychoanalyst Author collaboration / London
Joel Salatin
Farmer / Virginia