good neighbor's 6th Annual Design Camp

"FROM BALTIMORE TO THE WORLD"

september 14 - 19

Our 6th annual Design Camp is back from September 14th to 19th for another year of deep conversation, community connection, and endless inspiration.

This year's theme, "From Baltimore to the World," is a celebration of our city as a global design hub. Free and open to the public for inspiration, learning, and connection, Design Camp '26 highlights the design diversity in Baltimore through talks, art installations, community-building events, and workshops. In keeping with this year's theme, Design Camp '26 will bridge design cultures from around the world.

Each day, experience design through the lens of different countries' understanding of design while joining your neighbors for conversations from the top artists, designers, and makers in their respective practices.

daily camp activities

  • PHILLIPINES & PUERTO RICO - BALTIMORE

    9a - 11a
    Perfect Memory Radio - Harbours, Harana & Bomba at guesthouse by good neighbor

    A journey through the music, stories, and shared artistic traditions of the Philippines and Puerto Rico, tracing how island cultures, migration, and performance continue to shape Baltimore's creative landscape.

    7p - 9p
    Evening Inspiration w/ Anna Davinagracia, Ana Teixeria & Ciarra Walters at good neighbor

    Each evening we will highlight luminary voices in the fields of art, design, photography, textiles, and archival to dive into their process and connect the craft that goes into each.

    Free RSVP

  • KOREA - BALTIMORE

    9a - 11a
     Perfect Memory Radio - Mountains, Moons & Memory at guesthouse by good neighbor

    From Korean folklore and contemporary art to Baltimore's own traditions of storytelling and community-making, PMR explores how memory travels across generations and geographies via textiles and ancient craft

    6p - 8p
    Evening Inspiration w/ Rosa Chang, An-Phuong Ly & Kenya Miles at good neighbor

    Each evening we will highlight luminary voices in the fields of art, design, photography, textiles, and archival to dive into their process and connect the craft that goes into each.

    Free RSVP

  • EGYPT - BALTIMORE

    9am - 11am
    Perfect Memory Radio - Songs for Sirius     at guesthouse by good neighbor

    Inspired by the star that guided ancient and contemporary Egyptian cosmology, this conversation connects Egyptian music, visual culture, and diasporic imagination to Baltimore's artists, musicians, and makers

    6pm - 8pm
    Evening Inspiration w/ Jackie Milad, Ayman and Osama Abdeldayem, & Sharif Farag     at CARPET CAFE by good neighbor (100 E North Ave)

    Each evening we will highlight luminary voices in the fields of art, design, photography, textiles, and archival to dive into their process and connect the craft that goes into each.

    Free RSVP

  • SUDAN - BALTIMORE

    9am - 11am
    Dust to Water: Afro Blue     at guesthouse by good neighbor

    Each morning listen to a live broadcasted DJ and conversation with host Elissa Blount Moorhead and a special guest each day. Following the path of the Nile to the Chesapeake, this program explores Sudanese music, poetry, and cultural memory alongside Baltimore's rich traditions of Black artistic expression, escape, care and sanctuary.

    6pm - 8pm
    Evening Inspiration     w/ Atheel Elmalik and Fatima Wardy at good neighbor

    Each evening we will highlight luminary voices in the fields of art, design, photography, textiles, and archival to dive into their process and connect the craft that goes into each.

    Free RSVP

  • INDIA & PAKISTAN - BALTIMORE

    9am - 11am
    Perfect Memory Radio - Color of Frequencies: Bashment     at guesthouse by good neighbor

    Flowing between the Indus, the Ganges, and Baltimore's harbor, this broadcast examines how music from Bhangra and Bmore Club and artist such as Charanjit Singh to Ultra Nate film, poetry, and migration create new cultural rhythms across South Asian and Black diasporas in the city

    6pm - 8pm
    Evening Inspiration     w/ Noormah Jamal, Shradha Kochhar, Joya Mukerjee Logue at good neighbor

    Each evening we will highlight luminary voices in the fields of art, design, photography, textiles, and archival to dive into their process and connect the craft that goes into each.

    Special menu, Chaat Night by good neighbor's food and bar team.

    Free RSVP

  • OPEN HANDS DAY

    A day celebrating and Baltimore's designers. A studio crawl of our favorite makers at designers across the city from 9:30a to 6p including 2 paper lamp making workshops with New York's COMO DEMO.

    9:30am - 11:00pm
    Parkdale Studios (3500 Parkdale Avenue)

    11:30am - 1pm
    Lunch break at Mera Kitchen Collective (1301 North Calvert Street)

    12pm- 2pm
    COMO DEMO     Paper Lamp Workshop, 1st session (at Library19, 606 S Ann Street) 
    Get tickets here.

    1:30pm - 3pm
    BLifted Art Stvdios

    3:15pm - 5pm
    Reference (at Library 19, 606 S Ann Street)

    3:30pm - 5:30pm
    COMO DEMO     Paper Lamp Workshop, 2nd session (at Library19, 606 S Ann Street)
    Get tickets here.

    5:30pm - 7pm
    Closing party featuring food & bar by good neighbor and an Open Film Screening, Library19 (606 S Ann Street)

    RSVP for the studio crawl

our sponsors

Wide Angle Youth Media
MICA
Forest House West Virginia
Okay Everything Studio