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Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Sam Jacob

2021-08-20T12:42:00-04:00

Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus concludes today with our conversations with the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Today's final episode is a conversation with Sam Jacob .

Sam Jacob Studio is a London-based practice that works at a variety of scales from urban planning to architecture, design objects, art, and curatorial work. Sam Jacob also currently works as a Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and as a columnist for Art Review. Sam's installation for Exhibit Columbus is located on Washington Street. He treats the six city blocks as a design object in his project titled "Alternative Instruments," telling a story of Utopia from the perspective of both history and fiction, referencing a 16th century novel by Thomas More through symbolism, mapping, and the typography of the Utopian alphabet.

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Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Olalekan Jeyifous

2021-08-16T15:40:00-04:00

Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus continues with sharing conversations with the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Today's episode is a conversation with Olalekan Jeyifous .

Olalekan, who also goes by LEk, as Paul refers to him in the conversation, is a Nigerian-born visual artist with an architecture degree from Cornell. His work has been widely exhibited at institutions including the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA, Vitra Design Museum and the Guggenheim Bilboa. His work ranges from large-scale art commissions in public spaces and festivals to commercial installations. His contribution to this year's Exhibit Columbus is a fascinating hybrid of physical and virtual space entitled Archival/Revival. The installation directly references exhibits at the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library, the site of the installation, from 1970, celebrating the Black and African arts.

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Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Future Firm

2021-08-09T14:20:00-04:00

Future Firm is a Chicago-based architecture and design research office founded in 2015. Their work spans a wide array of scales, framed by their tagline, "We design on behalf of the secret lives of cities." In the case of their installation for Exhibit Columbus, Midnight Palace, the secret lives represent the nocturnal community in Columbus, Indiana. The sidewalk installation will bring together people that work in manufacturing, one of the most common jobs in the regions, with restaurant workers, truckers on I65, parents of newborns, dedicated stargazers, students, and residents with families overseas.

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Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Ecosistema Urbano

2021-07-30T12:33:00-04:00

Ecosistema Urbano is a design and consulting company operating within the fields of urbanism, architecture, engineering, and sociology, with offices in Madrid and Miami. Their work often addresses climate head-on, while incorporating strategies of working with micro-climates to educate communities through public spaces. This focus was applied to Cloudroom, their contribution to this year's Exhibit Columbus. Cloudroom consists of an inflatable "cloud," floating over a wooden structure, acting as a space for education, play, and interaction for middle school students.

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Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Dream the Combine

2021-07-27T09:00:00-04:00

Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus continues this week as we introduce the winners of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. This series was introduced last week with Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, the curators of Exhibit Columbus. If you're not yet familiar with this year's Exhibit Columbus designers and programming, we encourage you to take a listen to last week's episode. To begin our first episode featuring the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize, we're sharing my conversation with Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of Dream the Combine.

Partners in work and life, Jennifer and Tom's Minneapolis-based practice explores metaphor, imaginary environments, and perceptual uncertainties that cast doubt on our known understanding of the world. Their installation for Exhibit Columbus starts off with addressing the name Columbus, and the various associations with the controversial name. The project is aptly titled "Columbus Columbia Colombo Colón."

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Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Part 1: A Conversation with the Curators

2021-07-20T08:27:00-04:00

Today, in partnership with Exhibit Columbus, we're introducing Next Up: Exhibit Columbus, our 5-part series of conversations with the curators of Exhibit Columbus and the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize.

The designers awarded the Miller Prize were each selected for their commitment to the transformative power that architecture, art, and design have to improve people’s lives and make cities better places to live.

Each designer, or team, was tasked with creating a site-specific installation in and around the city of Columbus, Indiana. Our conversations touch on each project within the context of the designer's body of work, the process involved during the research and development, and finally discussing each installation in detail.

The installations will be unveiled in person with a preview party on August 20th and will be open to the public from August 21st to November 28th.

To begin, our conversation today is with Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, co-curators of the ...

Take a look at Exhibit Columbus' 2020-21 Miller Prize Installations

2021-03-31T18:56:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus recently presented the featured designers of the 2020-2021 exhibition cycle in an accessible four-session virtual format. Curated by Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger, this year's theme New Middles: From Main Street To Megalopolis, What Is The Future of The Middle City? highlights the work of the most recent J. Irwin and Xenia Miller Prize winners, University Design Research Fellows, and a Columbus High School Design Team.

To learn more about the thirteen design teams, check out Archinect's coverage of the March 19th and March 26th Design Presentations.

2020-21 Exhibit Columbus J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Installations

In Part 1 of Archinect's installation preview, we took a look at the upcoming creations by the seven University Design Research Fellows and the High School Design Team.

Listed below are the proposed site-specific installations by the five 2021 Miller Prize-winning designers, Dream the Combine of Minneapolis, ecosistema urbano of Miami and Madrid, Fut...

Exhibit Columbus' 2021 site installations showcase the work of University Design Research Fellows and nine high school students

2021-03-31T09:00:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus' virtual presentations allowed the public to join in online and listen to thirteen presentations from the event's University Design Research Fellows, High School Design Team, and J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize winners.

Exhibit Columbus has shared project renders for eight site-specific installations developed by the University Design Research Fellows and High School Design Team for an exclusive preview.

2020-2021 University Design Research Fellowship Installations

For this year's iteration, seven fellowships were awarded to leading professors of architecture, landscape architecture, and design from seven universities. Each installation highlights the research of each individual. Fellows were selected for their "ability to tackle specific sets of issues germane to the future of the city and the Mississippi Watershed region, such as sustainability and material reuse, non-human habitat, watershed ecologies, emergent technologies, and migration."

Derek Hoeferlin — W...