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
Get Green at: Homes That Give More Than They Take
This talk will explore how a Canadian-Danish collaboration spearheaded by Great Gulf and VELUX Canada embraced a building concept that enables new buildings to give back more than they take. The first certified “Active House” house in the world is located in Toronto—it’s defined by its use of natural daylighting and ventilation, energy-efficient strategies and an overarching concern for human comfort and health. The family currently living in the house will tell stories about the house’s pros and cons.
Toronto, ON. November 24, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM.
Tuesday
Escape the Cold By Attending: Plan Your Trip To: Satellite Art Show
Satellite is an alternative art fair that presents new and exciting projects that span the gamut of art, music, performance, installation, new media and tech. You can expect to see colorful, out-of-this-world art at the retro Miami feeling Parisian Hotel. Winter is approaching fast, so use this as an excuse to get out out town for a long weekend.
Miami Beach, FL. December 1, 2016 through December 4, 2016.
Wednesday
Take a ‘Vacation’ to: Crochet Coral Reef
Okay, it might be a fake and rather dark vacation, but this beautiful crochet creation by sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim and their Los Angeles–based organization, the Institute For Figuring is worth the visit. Mixing crocheted yarn with plastic trash, the work fuses mathematics, marine biology and craft to produce large-scale coralline landscapes. At once figurative, collaborative, worldly, and dispersed, the Crochet Coral Reef offers a tender response to the dual calamities facing marine life: climate change and plastic trash.
New York, NY. On view through January 22, 2017.
Thursday
Explore a Galaxy Far, Far Away at: Space Program: Europa
World-renowned sculptor Tom Sachs and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts have set their sights on the next frontier of space exploration with Space Program: Europa. This maiden voyage to the untouched, icy moon of Jupiter will be Sachs’s longest space mission to date, following successful journeys to the moon and Mars. Space Program: Europa will fill YBCA with everything Sachs’s astronauts need to successfully complete their voyage, including mission control, a full size Apollo-era landing module, a mobile quarantine facility, and equipment for conducting scientific experiments and tea ceremonies.
San Francisco, CA. On view through January 15, 2017.
Friday
Explore Artificial vs. Natural at: The Living Room
The Living Room, created by Dunbar’s Number, focuses on the processes of transformations of the natural and cultural. The exhibition dissolves the line between the artificial and the natural, and it focuses on design as a process. Objects in the exhibit are in an ephemeral state and are subject to continual change.
Vienna, Austria. On view through December 23, 2016.
Saturday/Sunday
Calm Yourself After a Stressful Thanksgiving At: Water Meditations
What better way to decompress before Christmas, Hanukkah and the likes roll around than to visit ultra soothing sculptures by Korean artist, Byung Hoon Choi?
New York, NY. On view through December 17, 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/58123/Secure-Your-Ticket-To-an-Alternative-Art-Show-Meditate-With-Water-Sculptures-Post-Thanksgiving-and-Go-to-Jupiter-With-Tom-Sachs