Jumpstart your week with our insider’s guide to events in the design world. From must-see exhibitions to insightful lectures and the competitions you need to know about—here’s the best of what’s going on, right now.
Tuesday
Living Wall, designed by Mia Lehrer + Associates for the Los Angeles Natural History Museum
LA-based landscape architect Mia Lehrer will present a sampling of her diverse practice, which includes both private and public projects. In Recalibrating the City: Advocacy by Design, Lehrer will speak to her emphasis on working closely with local communities and stakeholders to create works that transform parks, streetscapes and campuses into spaces that “meet the diverse needs of the people who will visti them."
New York, NY. February 16th at 7PM.
Wednesday
Walt Disney presenting the plans for EPCOT in Bay Lake, Florida, 1966 (completed in 1982).
Opening at Storefront for Art and Architecture this week is Closed Worlds, an archive of 41 historical prototypes of closed resource regeneration systems—think, space capsules, submarines, etc. By charting these projects, the exhibition draws attention to the larger trend of synthetic naturalism, where the laws of nature are displaced into buildings and cities.
New York, NY. On view through April 9, 2016.
Thursday
Face Dish (Boku), 1952. Shigaraki stoneware.
In honor of the upcoming exhibition, Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony (which will include a display of more than 300 of Sachs’ handmade porcelain tea bowls), the Noguchi Museum is exhibiting Isamu Noguchi: Functional Ceramics, a selection of his more "functional” ceramics: plates, bowls, trays, and other traditional forms.
New York, NY. On view through July 24, 2016.
Friday
The Drawing Center’s gallery will transform into a simulated studio for the next month, highlighting the graphic design process in Please Make This Look Nice. Throughout the run of the show, a variety of professionals will set up shop in the space temporarily, working in unique design assignments and engaging the audience in discussion.
New York, NY. On view through March 20, 2016.
Saturday/Sunday
Designers in all fields can stand to benefit from learning an architectural approach to problem solving, and that is just what you can glean from DIY Like an Architect: 11-Step Method. Through a series of brainstorming exercises, collaging and diagramming, you’ll learn how to move through the ideation process from concept to solution.
Pasadena, California. February 21 and 28, 2016 at 1 PM.
Upcoming Deadlines
February 21 - Cooper Hewitt’s Student Design Challenge #ThinkOutside
February 22 - Call for Submissions: AZ Awards 2016
Check out the Core77 Calendar for more design world events, competitions and exhibitions, or submit your own to be considered for our next Week in Design.
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