Recipients of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize and University Design Research Fellows (UDRF) have been announced for the fifth cycle of Exhibit Columbus ahead of next year’s event in Columbus, Indiana.

Each will produce installations responding to the previously announced theme 'Yes, And', which calls for participants to "work from existing materials to shape positive change.”

The four Miller Prize recipients will work with a paired institution at sites around the city to create installations that serve as the focal point of the 2025 exhibition. They include:

• Adaptive Operations (Chicago, Illinois) Site: The Crump Theatre
• AD—WO (Brooklyn, New York)  Site: The former Irwin Block Building
• Studio Barnes (Miami, Florida) Site: The Jackson Street Parking Garage
• Studio Cooke John (New York, NY) Site: The First Christian Church Sunken Courtyard

Five curatorial partners were able to choose from 50 submissions to a national open-call. The six teams they selected will each expand on current research efforts while matched with a local organization. They include:

• Chandler Ahrens, Constance Vale, and Kelley Van Dyck Murphy (team lead) of Washington University in St. Louis
• Sarah Aziz of the University of New Mexico
• Akima Brackeen of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• César A. Lopez (team lead), Jess Myers, Amelyn Ng, and Germán Pallares-Avitia of the University of Virginia, Syracuse University, Columbia University, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
• Suzanne Lettieri (team lead) and Michael Jefferson of Cornell University
• Andrew Fu, Aaron Goldstein, Aleksandr Mergold (team lead) of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

A two-day symposium will take place across three sites in downtown Columbus and include a feature discussion with the Miller Prize recipients and UDRF group on October 24th and 25th. Further details will be announced next week on the Exhibit Columbus website.