Past Events

Event 3

New Haven: 6-8pm EST on Thursday February 22

Celebrating Lunar New Year With Drinks & Design

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Join A Rising Tide and aapiNHV to celebrate Lunar New Year in New Haven. Hosted by September in Bangkok, this event brings our community together over drinks, food, and fun design discussions to imaging the future of our city.

A Rising Tide works to cultivate leadership and increase visibility of Asian and Pacific Islanders working in design for the built environment.

aapiNHV is an intergenerational, pan-Asian collective in New Haven.

Event 2

New York: 6 - 8pm EST on Thursday May 18

San Francisco: 5-6:30pm PST on Friday May 5

Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Design

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Join A Rising Tide, and AAPI Design Alliance for an event during NYCxDESIGN to celebrate Asian and Pacific Islanders in design. Hosted by the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, this event, timed to coincide with Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, will feature short presentations by emerging API design firms and a networking hour for interior designers, architects, makers, and landscape architects. Reception will feature API-founded drink and snack companies.

A Rising Tide is a new organization working to cultivate leadership and increase visibility of Asian and Pacific Islanders working in design for the built environment. The Asian American Pacific Islander Design Alliance (AAPIDA) is an organization and collective that engages, promotes, and empowers Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders working within the home and design industries to foster visibility, collaboration and representation industry-wide.

Event 1

6pm EST/3pm PST on Friday September 23

A Rising Tide: Learning from Leading Asian and Pacific Islander Designers

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Please join us for our first event, A Rising Tide: Learning from Leading Asian and Pacific Islander Designers at 6pm EST/3pm PST on Friday September 23. The event begins with an online panel, and for those in NYC, SF, or New Haven will continue with an in-person community gathering. In our panel, we'll be discussing the founding and goals of A Rising Tide, and we'll be hearing from our panelists about their journey as designers as they navigate culture, heritage, and design practice.