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
In the final installment of the Center for Architecture’s Craft and Architecture series, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien—recognized for their institutional projects, like the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia—will talk about their approach to material innovation.
New York, NY. June 20, 2016 at 6 PM.
Tuesday
A new conference launches at the Rhode Island School of Design this week. Design in Plastics 2016 will be a two-day event focused on collaboration between design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing and R&D in the product development process, with a focus on the emerging materials and technologies that will impact the way we approach design in the near future.
Providence, RI. On view through June 22, 2016.
Wednesday
The South Bronx Trades, an exhibition of Martine Fougeron’s photographic documentation of active industrial and manufacturing enterprises in Port Morris and Hunts Point celebrates the work of people who combine craft and labor and persist in an area that is rapidly starting to feel the effects of expansion and rezoning.
New York, NY. On view through June 26, 2016.
Thursday
Head to the Museum of Arts and Design for a special screening of The World of Buckminster Fuller, a documentary that captures the innovative designer—who was simultaneously an architect, engineer, geometer, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and the dymaxion car—at the height of his career through lots of rare archival material.
New York, NY. June 23, 2016 at 7 PM.
Friday
This year’s not-to-be-missed Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manus x Machina, explores how fashion designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear.
New York, NY. On view through August 14, 2016.
Saturday/Sunday
This Intro to Model Making Workshop will focus on real-world techniques that can be applicable for makers across various disciplines. The session will include demos, practical exercises and each attendee will learn how to cast and finish a custom urethane container, as well as sculpt and finish a top for the container.
Southfield, MI. Through June 26, 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/54021/Explore-the-World-of-Buckminster-Fuller-the-Future-of-Fashion-in-an-Age-of-Technology-and-a-New-Design-Conference-at-RISD