This years Seattle Design Festival runs from Sept 12-25.
This year's Seattle Design Festival runs from Sept 12-25. Trevor Dykstra/Seattle Design Festival 2014

The fifth annual Seattle Design Festival comprises two weeks of over 40 excellent workshops, performances, talks, parties, and more events celebrating the way design can contribute to a better world. All of those events are in one place on our Seattle Design Festival calendar.

If you haven't heard of it, here's Charles Mudede on why you should go:

"This might be the most important Seattle Design Festival ever, as it addresses one of the most important urban questions of our time: housing as a matter of equality. By intersecting social justice, urban planning, ecology, and capital, Design for Equity, this year's theme, transforms design into a moral issue.

For the most part, design is a matter of aesthetics. But bad design must be seen as design that leads to greater and greater economic inequality. A building is ugly when it is expensive. We need to learn to see things this way. We need to change our values. Do not miss this festival."