How will you flex your creativity today?

Where everyone is a designer

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Education

Workshops are hands-on sessions (pre-set or customized), online or in-person, where you can leave with skills or object(s).

Materials may be included, or at an additional cost.

1.5 to 2 Hour Sessions

Experiences

Events organized or presented by the Design Gym and local design + creative community.

Free and registration required events.

2+ Hour Experiences

Expertise

Contracted services for program/project design and development, program/project strategy and implementation, communications, or facilitation.

Available year-round

Design is everywhere

Whether it is architecture, fashion design, graphic design, industrial textile design (and more!), EVERYTHING IS DESIGNED! From the phone you’re holding, to the logo on your shirt, and the sidewalk you walk everyday.

We are providing access to design through fun (and educational) experiences in communities and neighborhoods of Philadelphia.

Photo credit: Kendon Photography PARK(ing) DAY Philadelphia 2021

Everyone is a designer, solving problems and making an impact

We are a platform to nurture every designer, as an individual and as a collective–young, multi-generational, emerging, current, past, educated, trained, professional, veteran, future, and beyond.

It’s through creative problem solving that we innovate and make an impact, small and big changes!

Become a designer or a design advocate, you choose

We want to open the door to the world of design by making things, taking walks, playing, or talking about stuff with professionals or peers.

You came as you are, and we will be there to embrace it and welcome you!

Photo credit: Kendon Photography PARK(ing) DAY Philadelphia 2022

Young black girl playing with blocks. PARK(ing) DAY 2022, photo by Kendon Photography

We envision a world where you see designers that look like you