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Design by Protest, The Future of Affordable Housing and How Designers Will Shape Our Food Futures

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.

Monday

“What is the place of materiality in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms?” Join Giuliana Bruno, professor at Harvard University, for Material Encounters: Surface Tension, Screen Space, a presentation of the research that went into her latest book, Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.

New York, NY. February 22, 2016 at 6:15 PM. 

Tuesday

Opening today at the Museum of Art and Design, In Time (The Rhythm of the Workshop) examines the manufacturing process through the lens of three contemporary filmmakers. In meditative shots, they capture “the tempo of the workday, process as durational performance, and objects of labor as measures of time.”

New York, NY. On view through May 22, 2016. 

Wednesday

New York has a long history of attempting to find sustainable solutions for affordable housing, but in today’s real estate market, what is the future of affordability in one of the world’s most expensive city? Join community and urban policy leaders for The Politics of Affordable Housing, a panel discussion exploring how lessons from the city’s past may be able to inform the housing market of the present/future. 

New York, NY. February 24, 2016 at 6 PM. 

Thursday

Designers have a unique skill set that can pave a way forward for solving the world’s impending food crisis. Join MOLD founder and Core77’s own managing editor, Linyee Yuan and the School of Constructed Environments for How Design Can Feed a Hungry Planet, a wide-ranging discussion on the future of food, touching on topics like product design for entomophogy, 3D food printing, and reducing food waste.

New York, NY. February 25, 2016 at 6:30 PM.

Friday

Objection! opens today at the Vitra Design Museum—an exhibition that explores the act of civil disobedience through the objects such movements create, while foregrounding the potentials of design as an agent of change in politics, communication and social innovation.

Weil am Rhein, Germany. On view through May 29, 2016. 

Saturday/Sunday

Treat your eyes to a visual feast this weekend with Misha Kahn’s humorous and surreal installation at Friedman Benda, a survey of the varied sources the 27 year old designer draws inspiration from. Among the eclectic works on view is a 12-foot wide hand-woven mohair tapestry depicting a landscape inspired by Jell-O-molds,  a China-cabinet made of woven basketry and a UFO-chandelier of spun copper.

New York, NY. On view through April 9, 2016. 

Upcoming Deadlines

February 28 - A’ Design Award and Competition

March 1 - 2016 Future of Money Design Award

March 1 - 2016 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

March 1 - Olivetti Design Contest 2016

Plan Ahead

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute will present Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology this spring (opening on May 5, 2016). Through 120 examples, dating back to 1880 and running through the present, the show will re-examine the idea that the hand and the machine are discordant tools in the creative process by juxtaposing the traditional handiwork of haute couture (think: embroidery, featherwork, artificial flowers, pleating, lacework, and leatherwork) alongside innovative technological processes, such as 3D printing, circular knitting, computer modeling, bonding and laminating, laser cutting and ultrasonic welding. With the show’s emphasis on process, the galleries will be outfitted to resemble a traditional maison de couture with ateliers of tailoring and dressmaking. OMA New York’s Shohei Shigematsu will lead the exhibition design in collaboration with the Met’s Design Department.

What Design Can Do (WDCD), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the IKEA Foundation invite designers and creative thinkers from all countries and disciplines to take part in The Refugee Challenge—a call for entries focused on accommodating, connecting, integrating and helping the personal development of refugees. The challenge specifically focuses on refugees in urban areas, as nearly 60 per cent of the world’s 20 million refugees now live in urban areas. Submissions remain open through May 1, 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.