Textile Hive Opening & Panel
‘Designing a Living Archive’ aims to foster cross disciplinary exchange, introduce Textile Hive’s evolving role as a hub for textile research and creative collaboration, and strengthen connections across Portland’s design and fashion communities. Through tactile experiences, material storytelling, and shared exploration, the opening champions AIGA PDX’s mission to support the craft of design and expand its cultural relevance.

The evening includes an opening reception from 5:30 to 6:30 with light refreshments, followed by the panel discussion from 6:30 to 7:30.

Attendee Takeaways:

• Discover how archives and material libraries can inform contemporary design, fashion, and research practice

• Engage with the design of the new Textile Hive space and explore the possibilities it offers for collaboration, learning, and creativity

• Connect with fellow creatives and professionals working at the intersection of textiles, fashion, and design in Portland.

PANEL
This panel discussion brings together designers, archivists, and cultural practitioners to explore the evolving role of archives as living, designed environments. Anchored by the newly completed Textile Hive space in Portland, the conversation will center on how physical space, memory, material knowledge, and creative process intersect to support accessible, participatory, and responsive design systems.

The event will examine how archives can be activated through intentional design, both spatial and digital, to serve as platforms for education, collaboration, and dialogue. Panelists will share insights from their respective fields and discuss the challenges and possibilities of creating archives that are open, dynamic, and community engaged. The conversation will highlight how design decisions shape how memory is preserved, accessed, and interpreted, and how archives can support new forms of storytelling and collective making.

Panelists include: Patricia Gohier, an interior designer and the founder of Gohier Design; Ingemar Hagen Keith, a spatial designer and co-founder of Marmar Studio; Daniel Wallace, the Executive Director of Northwest Designer Craftartists and contributor to Textile Hive; and Caleb Sayan, founder of Textile Hive and Portland TextileX Month. 

Together the event panelsists bring intersecting approaches from interior design, experiential spatial design, curation, and archival innovation. Their dialogue will illuminate how space, memory, material, and process come together to shape archives as living and participatory environments.