Left to right: Jess Zimbabwe, Jair Lynch, Frank Giblin, Gabriel Kroiz. (Amanda Kolson Hurley)

Last night, the Woolly Mammoth theater in downtown Washington, D.C. hosted a forum on design’s potential to affect social change, organized by the San Francisco nonprofit Public Architecture and sponsored by Teknion. Attendees filed into a rehearsal hall to hear four speakers from the public and private sectors who are using design to effect change on different scales.

Continue reading after the jump.