Community

Program

Initiatives featured in our Community Program are fully produced and led by the project leads and rooted in their ongoing efforts to connect, celebrate and amplify design in our region. WDC is proud to feature their work in our official calendar of events.

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


Cans4Books & Tracy Dezenzo / DesBorder

Activation


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


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