Community
Program
WE RECEIVED AN IMPRESSIVE 400+ SUBMISSIONS FOR REVIEW ACROSS ALL CYCLES! We’ll regularly update the Community Program and announce opportunities for participation on our Official Calendar of events as they become available!
Among the selected initiatives, you’ll discover a diverse range of projects, events, exhibitions, activations, and symposia, many of which will offer opportunities for your active participation and engagement. We’ll regularly update the Community Program and announce opportunities for participation on our Official Calendar of events as they become available!
31st Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival / Media Arts Center San Diego (MACSD)
Event
A Su Futuro/Advancing Students Forward / ReCREA – Repurposing Waste for Coastal Resilience
Event
a’23xSD AIA San Diego Conference / a’23xSD AIA San Diego Conference
Event
ACORN UAM / Asilos: Foro Internacional
Project
AIGA San Diego Tijuana / Placemaking: Downtown Education Corridor
Other
AIGA San Diego Tijuana / AIGA SDTJ Design Showcase and Awards Program
Event
AIGA San Diego Tijuana / International Design Summit
Event
Alvaro Andres Alvarez Bustamante / 46 Renacimientos
Exhibition
Amorphic Robot Works / Border Crossers
Activation
Anahuac University of México / Design From Peace / Design From Borders
Exhibition
Andrea Montejano, Tomas Perez, Karla Suarez / Redesigning Border Rescue Beacons
Project
Andres Edén Vargas Maldonado, UABC / 2da Asamblea Ordinaria DI-integra 2024
Program
Andrew Biros, University of San Diego / Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge
Event
ANFA Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture John P Eberhard / Student Design Competition ANFA
Other
Anne Porter / RESTORATION AND ACTIVATION OF CALLEJÓN RIO BRAVO, TIJUANA
Event
Antonieta Peregrina, Eduardo A. Sánchez, IRT / Iniciativa Río Tijuana
Project
Architectural Design Film / Festival Architecture & Design Film Festival
Event
Arroyo Solís Agraz / Building Bridges: A Cross-Border Construction Worker Training Workshop and Material Showcase
Program
Art Reach / Community Activated Mural
Project
Authentic Design / Borderless Design Swarm: Homelessness Challenge
Other
AZENTIVE / impACT SDTJ (Name subject to change)
Program
Barry Threw Organization, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts / A World’s Fair in Four Acts
Event
Basalto / Muestra Creativa
Event
Basile Studio/ Basile Studio Forum Panel
Activation
Benjamin T. Wilder, Next Generation Sonoran Desert / Border BioBlitz 2024
Event
Berry Good Food / Future Thought Leaders Panel Discussion
Event
Binational Race / BINATIONAL RACE 2024
Event
Bioregional Center for Sustainability Science, Planning and Design – University of California / San Diego Cali-Baja Bioregional Plan 2030
Project
Birch Aquarium at Scripps / Embodied Pacific
Project
BLK Box Gallery / Transborder Collective
Event
Bonita Museum & Cultural Center / Border Blasters, Border Radio and Television
Exhibition
Border Fusion Group / Public Mural Collaboration @ Ped East, McDonald’s Station
Exhibition
Bruce Appleyard / A Declaration of Interdependence for San Diego Tijuana
Event
Bruce Appleyard / International Geodesign Collaboration for the San Diego Tijuana to Strengthen our Coastal and Climate Resilience
Activation
Bryan Andrade Chilian / Transborder Design House 2024
Program
Carlos Luelmo / Binational tattoo design exhibition
Exhibition
Carmen Lopez. Medina / ANILLOS VERDES CONDENSACION DE MASAS VEGETALES PARA LA CONECTIVIDAD ECOLOGICA Y PAISAJISTICA DE TIJUANA
Project
Casa Familiar and Cog•nate Collective / How to Mend a Broken Heart
Activation
Casa Tamarindo / KELP!
Exhibition
Cat Chiu Phillips / Mirrored Art and Design in High School
Project
CDT – Consejo de Desarollo de Tijuana / Parque Natura
Project
CDT – Consejo de Desarollo de Tijuana / Tijuana Diseño al Margen
Activation
CDT – Consejo de Desarollo de Tijuana / CICLOVIA DEL RIO TIJUANA
Project
CDT – Consejo de Desarollo de Tijuana / Parque Deportivo y Recreativo Cerro de las Abejas
Project
CDT – Consejo de Desarollo de Tijuana / UMBRAL DE LAS AMERICAS
Project
CECUT – Centro Cultural Tijuana / Trienal de Tijuana:2 Internacional Pictórica
Activation
CECUT – Centro Cultural Tijuana / La Frontera. Joyería contemporánea
Exhibition
Center for Collaborative Design / Places We Love: San Diego Tijuana
Other
Centro Cultural de la Raza / Suturing the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo Retrospective
Exhibition
Cesar Giovanni Estrada Romero / No Cuerpo y la creación de un archivo digital sobre diseño, arte y cultura en la región transfronteriza Tijuana-San Diego
Exhibition
CETYS Universidad, Dr. Jose Francisco Sanchez, and Dr. Flavio Olivieri / ACELERART
Project
CETYS Universidad, Ingrid Kuri, Nataly Medina / WE DO & CARE
Event
CETYS Universidad, Instituto de Estudios del Noroeste A.C. / Prevención de la Contaminación: Jornadas de Reciclaje Comunitarias Zona del Arroyo Alamar
Project
CETYS Universidad, Promotora Bellas Artes / Casa de las Bellas Artes – CaBA
Other
CETYS University / Forum on Industrial Design
Event
City Gallery, San Diego City College / Architecture, Arquitectura
Exhibition
City Gallery, San Diego City College / Kumeyaay Design Exhibition
Exhibition
City Gallery, San Diego City College / Low VOC
Exhibition
City of Coronado – Arts and Culture Coronado Cultural Arts Commission / Coronado: The Fourth Wave
Event
City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture / Far South Border North: Artists and Cultural Practitioners in Community
Program
City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture / Public Art / Public Sphere: An Intensive for Artists
Program
Colectivo de Diseño Índigo / Faro: Puerto Creativo
Event
Colectivo Mover la Ciudad: Observatorio Ciudadano para la Supervisión Integral de Proyectos de Espacio Público y Movilidad en Tijuana / MOVER LA CIUDAD
Project
COLEF – Colegio de la Frontera Norte / El BC2. Fabricación de Aviones en Tijuana, 1927-1929.
Exhibition
Comic-Con Museum / ARTISTAS CÓMICOS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA
Exhibition
Consejo de Desarrollo Económico / Parque Natura
Project
Consejo de Desarrollo de Tijuana / Tijuana Diseño al Margen
Event
Coronado Historical Association Design / Coronado, An Exhibit Celebrating Cross Border Historic Architecture
Exhibition
Creative Mornings San Diego / Creative Mornings San Diego
Activation
Creative Mornings Tijuana / Creative Mornings Tijuana
Event
CUT – Universidad de Tijuana / Percepción y diseño de paisaje en lotes baldíos de Tijuana, Baja California.
Exhibition
Design for Emergency Management (DEM) / Strengthening resilience across borders: design to mitigate the worst case scenario
Other
Design Innovation Institute Organization / Retrospective Exhibition of Regional Design Work by Susan Merritt and Calvin Woo
Exhibition
Disco Riot / Queer Mvmnt Fest
Event
Don Norman Awards / Don Norman Design Awards
Event
Dra. Gloria Hernandez Fujigaki / Salud en la Frontera para todos
Project
Dra. Minerva Tapia / Diálogos en Movimiento
Activation
Dynamo Design Group (DDG) / Fabrik
Other
Eduardo Amezcua Altamira / Mirando Alto y Verde
Project
Eduardo Antonio Sánchez Castro, Maria Antonieta Peregrina / Iniciativa Río Tijuana
Project
Elizabeth Tobias Arts / Awakening Your Inner Designer through Expressive Arts
Activation
Enigma Creative / Tijuana Design Week
Event
Escuela Libre de Arquitectura / FROZEN MUSIC
Event
Espacio Migrante / Espacio Migrante: Resisting, Reimagining, and Redesigning the Border
Event
EXPO Mueble Baja / EXPO Mueble
Event
Forever Balboa Park / Design Programming for the Revitalized Botanical Building and Gardens
Activation
Frank Wolden / The Art of City Design – The work of Frank Wolden & Friends
Exhibition
Frida Moreno / Echoes from the Edge
Activation
Friendly Futures / Playdate for All Ages with Friendly Futures
Exhibition
Friends of Friendship Park / Designing an Archive for Friendship Park: Shaping Public Memory around Cross-Border Friendship and Resistance
Project
Fundación DIURNA / Kid Wind Challenge
Event
Gamacon, Medios Creativos /Gamacon 2024
Event
Generation STEAM / San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering
Event
Girl Scouts of San Diego – Girl Scout Troop 4940 / Girl Scouts Design Out Unwanted Pets
Project
Guillermo Antonio Sepulvea Gil, FCITEC – UABC Escuela de Arquitectura / ADUGenius a tool for afordable housing
Project
Hamlet Rubio / Tijuana Vertical Film Festival ( tjveff )
Event
Harvard Graduate School of Design / The House of Wise Words
Project
Humble Design San Diego / When a House Becomes a Home: The Intersection of Homelessness and Hope
Program
IBERO – Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana / LABORATORIO BINACIONAL PARA EL DISEÑO Y CONSTRUCCIÓN DE VIVIENDA ASEQUIBLE SUSTENTABLE
Project
ICBC – Instituto Cultural de Baja California / Cantos en Círculo: Diseñando una experiencia de música
Activation
IDA – International Design Awards / International Design Awards
Event
Ilan Lael Foundation / Cultural Diplomacy Through Design
Event
Ilan-Lael Foundation / James Hubbell Retrospective / Lado a Lado
Exhibition
IMAC – Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura / ZONA LIBRE : Convocatoria colectivo artistas San Diego Tijuana
Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego / Pinar Yoldas Exhibition
Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego / Melissa Walter Exhibition
Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego / Nathalie Miebach Exhibition
Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego / “Remote Pulse” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Project
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego / Manuel Alejandro Rodriguéz-Delgado Exhibition
Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego / SUPERFLEX: Beyond the End of the World Exhibition
Exhibition
Instituto INNSIGNIA de CETYS Universidad / V Seminario INNSIGNIA: Formando Jóvenes Emprendedores Para Impulsar La Región CulinariaBC
Event
Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura / Colectivo Mover la Ciudad
Other
Instituto Municipal de Participación Ciudadana / FORO Y GUIA SOBRE ACCESIBILIDAD Y DISEÑO UNIVERSAL, TIJUANA ACCESS
Event
Itza Vilaboy / The Transborder Library Project
Project
JN Tropea Design (Architecture and Interior Design Studio) / Innovating HOME: Exploring AI’s Role in Human-Centered Design
Event
Joan Kanter and George K Buck / A Place In Between
Project
Joel Hermosillo, City Center / BIDC Street Initiative
Project
Jorge Alberto Gutiérrez Topete. Instituto de Movilidad Sustentable / Sistema de Movilidad Segura para las Mujeres: Transporte Violeta
Project
Jorge Alberto Gutiérrez Topete. Instituto de Movilidad Sustentable / Proyecto de reordenamiento de transporte público del Blvr. Agua Caliente
Project
La Asociación Mexicana de Escuelas de Diseño Gráfico / ENCUADREXXXIV Encuentro Nacional de Escuelas de Diseño Gráfico
Event
La Jolla Historical Society / Order/Disorder: Belonging in Nature
Exhibition
La Jolla Historical Society Historic House Museum / Sacred Architecture of San Diego and Tijuana: Buildings and Beliefs
Exhibition
La Jolla Historical Society Historic House Museum / La Jolla Modernism & Architecture Week
Event
La Jolla Historical Society, Historic House Museum / Helen and Newton Harrison: The California Work, Getty PST Art & Science Collide
Exhibition
La Jolla Playhouse / Without Walls (WOW) Festival
Event
Lea Castillo / Centro 32Bebé bus: atención itinerante a primera infancia en contexto de movilidad en la ciudad de Tijuana
Project
Lea Castillo / Centro 32Psico-móvil: construyendo resiliencia en población migrante en Tijuana
Project
Ligia Santillán, Berenice Martínez / Art Scene Baja VIP Cultural Tours
Project
M A L U / Concerto #1 for electronic American violin and violin Mexicano – The undivided
Other
Maria E Curry / Architect Frank W Stevenso: Designing the California – Baja California region in the early 1900s
Event
Material Witness / Art Exhibition City Gallery, San Diego City College
Exhibition
Matiz Estudio / Talleres y Exhibiciones en Matiz Estudio 2024
Activation
Matiz Estudio / Comunitario Pai Pai
Activation
MDAP / Fronteras Simbioticas
Event
Melissa McClave / Compassionate Conversations/ Conversaciones Compasivas
Event
Miguel Aguirre, Border Fusion Group / Binational Ped Loop in a SD-TJ Cross-Border District
Other
Miguel Ángel Domínguez Cruz, Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño de la UABC / Examen Universitario de Sustentabilidad Enfocado a Los Residuos
Project
Milena Sorzano CETYS, Crissel Lugo UNISON, Yadira Flores UABC / Diseño de Emprendimientos Sostenibles para el Empoderamiento Económico de Mujeres Privadas de la Libertad.
Program
Mingei International Museum / La Frontera: Encounter Along the Border
Exhibition
Mitzi Salgado, TransFronterizo Institute / Transfronterizo Institute
Project
Museo El Trompo / Aniversario Museo El Trompo
Event
Museo El Trompo / BajaBot 2024
Event
Museo El Trompo / Noche De Estrellas
Event
Museo El Trompo / Semana Nacional del Conocimiento
Project
Museo El Trompo / Semana Mundial del Espacio
Program
Netherlands Consulate, San Francisco / Urban Dialogues
Event
Nissan Design America (NDA)2024 / WDC San Diego/Tijuana Youth Design Competitions / Summer School
Program
Observatorio Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos / VANTAGE POINT OBSERVATORIO
Program
Ocean Beach Town Council / DesBorder
Activation
Oceanside Museum of Art / Precious: My Intimate Partner
Exhibition
Olga Cecila Sanchez / Vāɡərē by Eclectique Mode
Exhibition
Pactful / Jacobs Teen Innovation Challenge
Event
Paula Intravaia / Bridging Time and Culture in Little Italy
Activation
Pigmento, Industria Creativa / Un portal sin fronteras
Project
Poetic Justice / Poetic Justice’s Exhibition: Voices on the Inside
Exhibition
Point Loma Nazarene University / Need. Want. Love. / Humans + Climate Change
Exhibition
Pragma Organization / Pragma presents: Planetary Frontlines – CityX Venic
Event
Promotora de las Bellas Artes / El mar nos une – The Sea Unites Us
Project
Proyecto Socioambiental del Río Tijuana / Las Voces del Río: Volumen II. Proyecto Socioambiental del Río Tijuana
Event
Public Architecture / International Friendship Park
Project
RA+. Oficina de arquitectura y urbanismo de la región transfronteriza / TJ/SDPark(ing) Day
Event
Rodolfo Argote Bibriesca / Circuito Centro Tijuana
Project
Rodolfo Argote Bribiesca / SALAA
Other
Rodolfo Argote Bribiesca / SALAA Rethinking Architecture Education in Latin America
Project
Rupa Dash, CEO, World Woman Foundation / WORLD WOMAN HOUR – 60 WOMEN X 60 STORIES X 60 WAYS DESIGN OUR FUTURE
Event
San Diego Architectural Foundation / SDAF KidSketch Program: Crossing Lines
Program
San Diego Architectural Foundation / Orchid & Onions Awards
Event
San Diego Dance Theater / Trolley Dances 2024
Event
San Diego Diplomacy Council / Binational Youth Summit
Event
San Diego Green Building Council / 2024 San Diego Green Building Conference & Expo
Event
San Diego International Airport Arts Program / Espacios & Lines
Exhibition
San Diego Jazz Ventures / San Diego-Tijuana International Jazz Festival
Event
San Diego Junior Theatre / Tomás and the Library Lady
Event
San Diego Museum Council, San Diego Museum Month Program, San Diego Pride Festival / San Diego Pride Festival – Designing an LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture City
Event
San Diego Sister Cities in collaboration with UCSD Global Initiatives, Vanguard Culture, My Chosen Vessels, and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues / The Sister Cities Indigenous Forum
Event
San Diego Unified School District / Friendship at Friendship Park
Project
San Diego Unified School District / Future Designers: Change Makers
Event
San Diego Youth Symphony / Theme for Great Cities
Other
San Dieguito Academy and Martin Chaker Architecture / Cultural Node
Program
SANDAG – San Diego Association of Governments / Cross-Border Connections: A San Diego and Tijuana Regional Summit of Mayors, Leaders, and Designers
Event
SANDAG – San Diego Association of Governments / Urban Core + Connections Design Showcase
Event
SANDAG – San Diego Association of Governments / Imaginando el Futuro: Envisioning the San Ysidro Mobility Hub through Design
Project
SANDAG – San Diego Association of Governments / Imaginando el Futuro: Envisioning the San Ysidro Mobility Hub through Design
Project
Sara Alejandra González Olachea, Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental / Participación comunitaria en el Parque de Conservación Los Sauces
Program
SD Design Treck / San Diego Design Trek
Event
SDSU – San Diego State University / Re:Border Conference 2024
Event
SDSU – San Diego State University / Vision 2074
Exhibition
SDSU – San Diego State University / Temporary Paradise
Project
SDSU – San Diego State University / Design Educators Forum
Activation
Se Hace Arquitectura / Recovery of Agua Caliente
Project
Secretaría de Cultura e Instituto de Cultura de Baja California / MUSEO DE LAS CULTURAS ORIGINARIAS Y MIGRANTES DE BAJA CALIFORNIA Y MERCADO DE ARTESANÍAS EN SAN QUINTÍN
Event
Secretaría de Cultura e Instituto de Cultura de Baja California / MUSEO DE SITIO DEL FERROCARRIL “ESTACIÓN GARCÍA” DE TIJUANA
Project
Secretaría de Economía e Innovación CDT / Baja Innovation Day
Event
Sew Loka Organization / Creating Clothing for the Next Generation
Exhibition
Sharlinee Ceniceros Toscano / Se Hace ArquitecturaMuseo del Muro
Project
Shinpei Takeda / PARALLEL REALITIES
Project
Sidney Portales & Carolina Limón / FRONTAPPProgramSpace 4 ArtCo-Creating A Community-Based Arts Center
Activation
Sparks Gallery / Holistic Design Weekend 2024 at Sparks Gallery
Event
Sparks Gallery / Open House San Diego
Event
Stacy Kelley and Katalina Silva / Here & There/ Aquí y Allá
Exhibition
Steinberg Hart Architects / Mega-Region (Bi-National) San Castle Exhibition
Activation
STEM4REAL / Wings Without Borders – An Immersive Journey
Event
Temporary Office / Twofold Encounters
Activation
The Design Academy Inc, Entrepreneurship / Measuring the Value of Design in the Tijuana- San Diego Region
Project
The Design Lab/D4SD Humanity Centered Design for Housing Issues / TEAMDesign Lab/D4SD Humanity Centered Design for Housing Issues
Project
The Downtown San Diego Partnership (DSDP) / Abalone Journey
Project
The FRONT Arte Cultura / Marcos Ramirez Erre Solo Exhibition
Exhibition
The FRONT Arte Cultura and IMAC Tijuana / Dia de la Mujer
Exhibition
The Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education / USDProject eSPAC3
Project
The Park-Way for a Day Coalition / Park-Way for a Day: Using Design to Reimagine the Public Realm
Event
The Salk Institute of Biological Sciences / PLANT TRANSFORMATIONS
Exhibition
The San Diego Museum of Art / Norman Foster + SDMA
Exhibition
The Urban Collaborative Project / The Urban Collaborative Project
Project
Tijuana Innovadora / Youth Symphony: Concierto de Anime (Sinfónica juvenil)
Event
Tijuana Innovadora / Feria Ambiental Académica Tijuana San Diego
Event
Tijuana Innovadora / Metrópoli 2024
Event
Tijuana Innovadora / Innovamoda
Event
Tulengua/ Welcome Tu Las Californias: A weekend with tulengua and friends
Event
UABC – Universidad Autonoma de Baja California / RE:BORDER
Event
UABC – Universidad Autonoma de Baja California / MINI PRESAS EN VALLE DE GUADALUPE + AGRICULTURA (AGTECH) 4.0
Other
UABC and New School of Architecture & Design / Forum on Industrial Design in the transborder context: a multiple voice dialogue
Event
UABC Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales / La Iniciativa Zaragoza Tijuana
Event
UABC, Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería y Tecnología / 4to Concurso de Diseño por Manufactura Aditiva
Exhibition
UABC, Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería y Tecnología / Solutionarum – Entrepreneurs Expo 2024
Event
UC San Diego Design Lab / Democratizing Design in our Cross Border Region
Project
University of Liverpool (XJTLU) / Waterless Composting Toilet: Sustainable Sanitation Solution for Cross-border Sewage Crisis
Project
URBAN INTERVENTIONS / Bay to Park Paseo
Project
Urban Land Institute San Diego – Tijuana 2024 / ULI Binational Symposium – Resilience by Design
Event
USD – University of San Diego / Converging Horizons
Project
Vanguard Culture / ENVZN Urban Takeover
Event
Via International / Somos La Voz: Somos La Voz: A Celebration of Chicano and Mexican Youth Activism, Art, and Cultural Legacy in San Diego
Event
Vicki Nienaber-Meadows Ph.D / XplorStem
Project
Visions Museum of Textile Art / Latine Entretejida – Interwoven
Project
Waylon Matson, 4 Walls International / Confluence of Change: A Binational Vision for Sustainable Urban Watershed Design
Project
Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative / Iniciativa Binacional para la Construcción de Paz y Resolución Pacífica de Conflictos
Program
Woodbury University School of Architecture / Designing Civicness
Exhibition
Yvette Roman / Animo Paisano
Activation