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
Muriel Cooper is best known as a pioneer of computer-based graphic design and digital interfaces through her work as founder and codirector of the Visible Language Workshop at the MIT Media Lab. In the small exhibition Information Landscapes we get a chance to see her work—recently acquired by MoMA—in a museum for the first time.
New York, NY. On view through June 12, 2016.
Tuesday
If It’s a Chair, currently on view at Patrick Parrish Gallery, is a group show of contemporary Danish design exploring what happens when art/design pieces “strive towards the freedom that allows the object rather than the definition to be the center of attention.”
New York, NY. On view through June 6, 2016.
Wednesday
We first encountered Jenny Sabin’s work at this year’s Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Beauty, and were instantly inspired by her inter-disciplinary, experimental approach to architecture. Combining architecture with theories from biology and mathematics, she’s hit her stride making installations with high-tech, high-performance composite fabrics. In this conversation with Cooper Hewitt curator Ellen Lupton, Sabin will discuss her work and process.
New York, NY. June 1, 2016 at 7 PM.
Thursday
Opening this week inside the historic Kraftwerk Berlin, this year’s DMY Berlin Design Expo will turn the former industrial power plant into a wide-ranging investigation of the current state of design. Under the festival’s theme of “Odyssey,” particular attention will be paid to designers who are blurring the lines between distinct disciplines, investigating how design will become a bridge to our future.
Berlin, Germany. On view through June 5, 2016.
Friday
If you’re in or around Zürich, don’t miss your last chance to catch Jasper Morrison’s retrospective show, Thingness. Combining finished products with documentation of the beloved designer’s process as well as some of his favorite historic design objects, the show aims to show that “good design is ‘super normal.’”
Zürich, Switzerland. On view through June 5, 2016.
Saturday/Sunday
Recently open at the Guggenheim in New York, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present is the first US retrospective of the artist’s work in 50 years. Beyond the 300 works on view, highlights include the Room of the Present, a mockup of an exhibition space conceived by Moholy-Nagy in 1930, and a replica of his kinetic Light Prop for an Electric Stage, originally designed in the same year.
New York, NY. On view through September 7, 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.
http://www.core77.com/posts/53500/Explore-the-Future-of-Textiles-in-Architecture-Muriel-Coopers-Pioneering-Digital-Interfaces-and-Jasper-Morrisons-Super-Normal-Design