May 17The Metropolis Conference @ ICFFJavits Center, New York City Are you reinventing yourself? Your practice? If you’re a designer, architect, business owner, manufacturer, or educator, you’re looking for inventive ways to navigate the new economy. On this day you’ll get useful insights into what other creative people are doing. Be part of this timely conversation! Click here for the full schedule.
OngoingWonderbrandsA strong visual identity is the key to presenting your brand successfully. Once again, Metropolis will gather design professionals to discuss the ever-evolving secrets to the language of branding. Is architecture is becoming the next Wonderbrand? Stay tuned for details…
March 17New Museum, New York City The third evening of the 27th annual Emerging Voices lecture series, featuring
Hayes Slade and James Slade of Slade Architecture and Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen of UrbanLab.
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March 18New York City At 6 p.m., Sanderson will speak at the City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, 141 Convent Ave. at W. 134th St., as part of the school’s spring lecture series. csauth.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/architecture
March 19—March 20University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St.
The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will host a conference, “Future of Urbanism,” on March 19 and 20. An international roster of speakers— academics and practitioners—will address some of the most critical issues facing our cities and their environs in six sessions, comprised of 15-minute segments and a panel discussion. Topics include: Urban and Regional Ecologies; Just Cities; MEGACITY / shrinking city; New Publics / New Public Spaces; Urban Imaginary; and Cities as Theaters for Conflict. taubmancollege.umich.edu/futureofurbanism
Through April 18The Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This exhibition brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists—with an emphasis on artists living in France—whose work contends with idealism, utopian thinking and, in counterpoint, the cynicism that follows failed revolution and the retreat of optimism in the face of pragmatic reality. The exhibition is inspired by the theoretical architecture of Yona Friedman, whose ideas were disseminated in the aftermath of World War II and have influenced subsequent generations. arts.uwm.edu/inova; www.frac-platform.com
Through March 19Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon In Signs of Change, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over 40 years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements. www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1455&list_type=2&cat=1&year=2010
Through March 26MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles This large-scale urban exhibition debuts new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles. Twenty-three artists working in the vein of California’s conceptual art movement have each been commissioned to create a new work that critically responds to the medium of the billboard, interpreting its role in the urban landscape. Investigating art as both an idea and media for critical intervention, the exhibition highlights the interaction of Pop, conceptualism, and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s. howmanybillboards.org
Through June 6Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium Rotterdam-born Richard Hutten is one of the Netherlands’ internationally successful designers. He graduated in 1991 at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. In his design studio he creates designs for furniture, products, interior design, and exhibitions. His level-headed designs are playful and humorous, but they are still well-thought-out, down to the smallest detail. Design Museum Gent offered Hutten the assignment of designing his own exhibition. Those who know Hutten will know that something special is in the making.
design.museum.gent.be/ENG/whats-new.php
Through June 6Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium The exhibition will visualize the results of the investigation into the influence of Scandinavian furniture on Belgian designers in the post-war period, and will treat the significance of Scandinavian modernism and its influence on Belgian modernism. Based on stylistic and technical parameters, a selection of Scandinavian furniture was made which served as an inspiration for a specific Belgian furniture item within the 1951-1966 timeframe. In a dozen cases, the Belgian furniture item is presented alongside its Scandinavian counterpart. design.museum.gent.be/ENG/whats-new.php
Submission Deadline: March 31SMIBE welcomes moving-image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing. SMIBE invites creative professionals, college and university students from architecture, landscape, art, industrial design, interior design, motion graphics and film to produce a three-minute, engaging, and entertaining moving-image story about about memorable characters and the infrastructures in their lives.
Submissions should not exceed three minutes in duration and can be produced in any motion image medium. Entry is free. Ten finalists will be chosen. www.smibe.org
Submission Deadline: April 16Through a juried competition, Suburbia Transformed, One Garden at a Time will assemble contemporary projects achieving the goal of exploring green technologies within the context of the aesthetics of human landscape experience on small residential sites. The emphasis is on how emerging sustainable strategies and tactics are used to create human landscape experiences that are beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and which might serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one garden at a time. jamesrosecenter.org/competition/index.html
March 19—March 20Ann Arbor, Michigan Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St.
The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will host a conference, “Future of Urbanism,” on March 19 and 20. An international roster of speakers— academics and practitioners—will address some of the most critical issues facing our cities and their environs in six sessions, comprised of 15-minute segments and a panel discussion. Topics include: Urban and Regional Ecologies; Just Cities; MEGACITY / shrinking city; New Publics / New Public Spaces; Urban Imaginary; and Cities as Theaters for Conflict.
taubmancollege.umich.edu/futureofurbanism
March 24—March 26Vancouver Convention Center, Canada
Every two years, over 10,000 professionals from 70+ countries come together at GLOBE for three days of sessions presented by world-renowned sustainability experts. The conference works to survey leading-edge environmental innovations and participate in unparalleled global networking opportunities. Topics
explore environmental goals such as corporate sustainability, climate change, carbon management, clean energy, sustainable finance, and greener cities. Special subthemes for GLOBE 2010 include: clean technology, water, a spolight on retail, and Auto FutureTech.
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