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 11Falvey Hall, Brown Center, Baltimore 6:30-8 p.m.
Debating how the issues of social justice and advocacy will impact the way artists conceive and execute their visual environment, a panel of top designers and editors looks at the future of design practice. Panelists include Emily Pilloton, founder, and Matthew Miller, project manager, of Project H Design, a non-profit dedicated to bringing product design to those who need it most; John Bielenberg, founder of Project M, an immersion program created to inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers, and other creative people to do work that can make a difference; and Julie Lasky, editor of Design Observer’s Change Observer department, which covers socially aware design. Baltimore-based architecture and design writer Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson will moderate the discussion. This free panel is a part of the Design Revolution Road Show, an initiative of Project H Design. It’s presented by MICA’s Center for Design Thinking and co-sponsored by D:center Baltimore and Urbanite magazine. designrevolutionroadshow.com
Through January 1, 1970New York City At 6 p.m., Whalley 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
Through March 11Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio The young French artist Cyprien Gaillard asks viewers to confront the many contradictions of our built environments in his seductive and haunting films and photographs. Gaillard (b. 1980 in Paris), who lives and works in Berlin, is fascinated by the strangeness of our contemporary landscapes, and the way we interact with them propels his work. In Disquieting Landscapes, you will see photographs and film/video works made in the last five years that swerve between documentary observation and extraordinary theatricality. www.wexarts.org/ex
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
March 20—May 7Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris This solo show from Daniel Arsham features a series of drawings depicting kangaroos, owls, and donkeys staring at or interacting with floating architectural forms. The animals appear both perplexed and intrigued with these human objects and seem to be lost in contemplation. “Animals have a unique relationship with architecture because it is not built for them,” Arsham says. “When we are confronted with the animal’s ambiguous connection to a world designed for humans, we are better equipped to ask questions about our own relationships to architecture.” www.galerieperrotin.com/
April 8—September 6Canadian Centre for Architecture This exhibition presents three projects dealing with the idea of an adventurous journey that started 40 years ago, after the mission to the moon in 1969: the now legendary project by Alessandro Poli and Superstudio for a highway to connect the earth and the moon; Los Angeles-based architect Michael Maltzan’s design of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Administration Building for NASA that challenges existing models for housing scientific research and proposes a new type of physical environment to facilitate a collaborative research process; and Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn’s research and design project for new terminals on both the earth and the moon, which will connect travelers between the two locations. www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions
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
Through March 12 Syracuse, NY
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry partners with the U.S. Green Building Council, New York Upstate Chapter, to host the annual Green Building conference. The conference mission is to promote, educate, and support green building, design, construction, and processes.
www.esf.edu/greenbuilding/
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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