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
Join La Triennale di Milano and The Milano Design Film Festival for a A Talk with Alejandro Aravena. The Pritzker Architecture Prize winning architect will discuss how architecture can improve people’s lives.
Milan, Italy. July 18, 2016 at 6:00 PM.
Tuesday
Manifesto Series: In Our Time – The Sharing Movement (Part II), is the second event in a two-part series presented by Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Participants will discuss the concept of ‘the sharing movement,’ a contemporary and ubiquitous movement that is increasingly influencing the exchange of goods, data, images, services and spaces of residence/work.
New York, NY. Tuesday, Part II: July 19, 2016 from 6:30 – 9 pm.
Wednesday
You don’t want to miss MoCA Detroit’s interactive exhibit, Methexis, a series of design studies, maps, and abstract design codes that reimagine processes of demolition and preservation, specifically focusing on the tens of thousands of vacant houses in Detroit. This extensive collection of studies focuses on demolition alternatives for publicly owned vacant structures.
Detroit, MI. On view through August 28, 2016.
Thursday
Japanese furniture company, Hida Furniture, is holding a design competition for wooden products. The goal of this competition is to create a wooden product that looks toward the future, while drawing on tradition. The only catch? Submitted products must be made with domestic lumber.
Hida-Takayama, Japan. Competition open through August 22, 2016.
Friday
Over the last few years, the reaction GIF has emerged as a form for communicating with short moving images in response to, and often in lieu of, text in online forums and comment threads. While many reaction GIFs are created, deployed, and rarely seen again, some have entered a common lexicon after being regularly reposted in online communities. Explore the topic of here now, gone later communication further at The Reaction GIF: Moving Image as Gesture at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Astoria, NY. On view through July 31, 2016.
Saturday/Sunday
The Art & Design Atomium Museum's Eames and Hollywood reveals one of the lesser-known hats worn by the designer couple, Ray and Charles Eames: photographers. Armed with a camera, the duo immortalized life behind the scenes of Billy Wilder’s Hollywood film sets.
Brussels, Belgium. On view through September 4, 2016.
http://www.core77.com/posts/54701/The-Hidden-Photography-Talents-of-Ray-n-Charles-Eames-Demolition-Alternatives-For-Vacant-Homes-and-the-Strange-Concept-of-the-Reaction-GIF