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A weeklong festival celebrating multiple facets of design is returning to Portland this weekend with hundreds of events, tours, educational opportunities and workshops. Design Week Portland, now in its seventh year, will include a wide swath of programming encompassing practices including architecture, landscape, interior and urban design.

This year, however, things have changed. The conclusion of the week’s events will also serve as the start of year-round programming on the part of Design Portland, the nonprofit organization that created and runs Design Week.

鈥淏asically, we just found ourselves doing a lot of the work that we would do in concentrated form before the festival,鈥� said Tsilli Pines, president of the newly rebranded Design Portland. 鈥淚t felt like the community was asking us to do more of that in between, so the idea was just to formalize what we were doing in the background. It was a response to popular demand.鈥�

Design Week Portland 2019 is offering hundreds of workshops, charrettes and other interactive events during the coming week, starting with an opening party Saturday evening at the Jupiter Next hotel. From there, more than 350 more events will be held through Saturday, April 13.

Design Week tends to capture the design trends of the moment, meaning themes and direction shift from year to year. 聽A number of events this year are focused on emerging technologies including augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

One event, 鈥淗umans, AI and the Future of Transportation,鈥� will feature a panel of experts in AI and transportation technology discussing changes in transportation design as AI becomes more capable. 聽At 鈥淒emocratizing VR for More Livable Cities,鈥� attendees will be able to explore VR models before a panel discussion on ways to use the technology as a community resource.

鈥淓very year we kind of put out a call for the most interesting things happening in everyone’s domain,鈥� Pines said. 鈥淎nd we’re not really very heavy-handed with a theme or something we’re calling for. Largely what we try to do is put an open call out to see what is bubbling up.鈥�

A select list of notable events is below, and the full schedule is available at . 91视频 are open to the public and include many free and low-cost options.

Saturday, April 6:
Opening Party, 7-11 p.m., Jupiter Next, 900 E. Burnside St.; $10.

Sunday, April 7:
Restorative Design: The Confluence Bird Blind by Maya Lin, 10-12 p.m., The Sandy River Delta, Troutdale, OR; $10.
Walking Tour: South Portland: Design, Development, Displacement, 2-4 p.m., Corner of Southwest First Avenue and Arthur Street; $30.
Kenton Women’s Village 2.0 Open House, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Corner of North Argyle Way and Columbia Boulevard; free.

Monday, April 8:
Accessible Design: Empathy in a World with No Averages, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Phase2, 514 N.W. 11^th Ave., Ste. 203; $15.
Women + The Future, an immersive experience in AR and VR with an all-female panel, 6-8 p.m., 52 Limited, 135 N.E. Ninth Ave.; $35.
New Tols for Interior Designers: Reimagining the Handmade Rug, 6-8 p.m., Lapchi Rug Design Studio, 809 N.W. Flanders St.; free.

Tuesday, April 9:
Next UI: Understanding the Business Case for Augmented Reality, 8-10 a.m., OSU College of Business, 555 S.W. Morrison St., Boardroom #2002; $30.
Placemaking for a Sustainable Future, 5-7 p.m., EYELEVEL, 1615 S.E. Third Ave., Fourth Floor; $5.
Democratizing VR for More Livable Cities, 5-8 p.m., Open Signal, 2766 N.E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd; $15.
Transportation as Liberation, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Vestas, 1417 N.W. Everett St.; $35/$10.

Wednesday, April 10:
Designing Equity 鈥� Leveraging the AIA Guides for Equitable Practice, 3-7 p.m., AIA Center for Architecture, 403 N.W. 11^th Ave.; $5.
What’s the Future of O’Bryant Square?, 5-7 p.m., Hennebery Eddy Architects, 921 S.W. Washington St., Ste. 250; free.
Humans, AI and the Future of Transportation, 6-8 p.m., Particle Design, 1001 S.E. Water Ave., Ste. 490; $15.

Thursday, April 11:
Technology and Livability: Designing Cities for the Future, 8:30-10 a.m., White Stag Building, 70 N.W. Couch St.; free.
Pre-Panelization and Virtual Design: The Creative and Practical Implications of Offsite Fabrication, 2-5 p.m., Portland Design Studio, 2609 S.E. 6^th Ave.; $10.
She Built This City: The Women of PDX Design and Architecture, 2-5 p.m., The Eleanor, 1605 N.W. Everett St.; free.

Friday, April 12:
Walking Tour: Mid-Century Modern and Minimalism in Portland, 11-1 p.m., Northeast corner of Southwest Third Avenue and Oak Street; $30.
Who Gets to Decide?, schoolchildren get to design the city through their eyes, 3:15-5:30 p.m., Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School, 4906 N.E. Sixth Ave.; free.

Saturday, April 13:
Walking Tour: Designing Death, River View Cemetery, 10 a.m. 鈥� 12 p.m., 0300 S.W. Taylor’s Ferry Road; $30.
AIA Portland Homes Tour, 10-4 p.m., locations throughout Portland; $45.
Walking Tour: Albina: Design, Development, Displacement, 2-4 p.m., Northeast Williams Avenue and Russell Street; $30 full price/ free subsidized tickets.