CU Lecture - Common Ground: Current Themes in Scandinavian Architecture

02.21.11
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Craig Dykers, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Johan Celsing, Kenneth Frampton, Nicholas Adams
Scandinavia's contemporary architecture is lively, witty, and engaged with current issues of design, ecology, and accessibility. The panel will explore the rich traditions of Scandinavia's current architecture and design.

Johan Celsing, Architect + Professor, Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor, Stockholm
Craig Dykers, Architect, Snhetta, New York
Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Architecture
Moderated by Nicholas Adams, Architecture Historian, Vassar College


Organized in conjunction with the exhibit, "Nordic Models+ Common Ground" on display at the Scandinavia House through 3/9/2011
www.scandinaviahouse.org

Nordic Models + Common Ground
The First in a Series of ASF Centennial Exhibitions
October 29, 2010 – March 9, 2011

The American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Scandinavia House presents Nordic Models + Common Ground: Art and Design Unfolded, an exhibition organized by Norsk Form in collaboration with The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF). The exhibition is curated by the internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta, which also designed the installation, in collaboration with Situ Studio. The first in a series of programs marking the ASF’s centennial, Nordic Models + Common Ground offers a visionary look at contemporary Nordic art and design, examining nascent trends and their impact on the global art and design communities. All of the Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—are represented.

The exhibition examines architecture, product design, fine art, graphic design, fashion, and photography by thirty-five artists and designers. This diverse, boundary-crossing body of work demonstrates the many ways in which contemporary Nordic designers are embracing socially responsible design that reflects the egalitarianism inherent to their societies. Moreover, with projects ranging from a violin to textiles, from a public outdoor shelter to lamps made from dried codfish skin, the exhibition demonstrates not only functionality, craftsmanship, and the use of natural materials, but also humor, cultural commentary, and a focus on new technologies.

Francis Alys

http://www.francisalys.com/

CU Lecture - Temporal Pavilions

02.07.11
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Basar Girit, Charles Renfro, Galia Solomonoff, Liam Gillick, Shohei Shigematsu
Basar Girit, Situ Studio, Brooklyn; Charles Renfro, DS+R, NYC; Shohei Shigematsu, OMA, NYC

Moderated by Liam Gillick, Columbia University School of the Arts and Galia Solomonoff, Columbia GSAPP

Organized with Columbia University School of the Arts in conjunction with the Design Build Studio:
Temporary/Contemporary Pavilion as part of a joint programming initiative

The New City Reader

The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space
The New City Reader is a temporary newspaper that will be published from October 6, 2010 to January 9, 2011 as part of the Last Newspaper exhibition at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York.

The New City Reader is a performance-based editorial residency conceived to take place in the context of The Last Newspaper, an exhibition at the New Museum in New York in fall-winter 2010.
It proposes to temporarily transform a portion of the museum's galleries into an active editorial office combined with forum for discussion. In this space, an editorial team will execute — for the duration of the exhibition and in full view of the public — the entire process of conception, design, and production of a weekly newspaper. This newspaper's content will derive from a series of discussions, debates, interviews, and research into the spatial implications of epochal shifts presently occurring in the information industry.
What is replacing the newspaper's voice in the debate around the definition of urban policy? Is architectural criticism (as practiced by the great newspaper critics such as Martin Pawley, Wolf von Eckhardt, or Ada Louise Huxtable) dead, and if so what critical influences shape the built landscape today? How are today's content-gathering systems—diffuse yet micro-subjectspecific — and the arrival of ultra-portable, permanently networked information platforms (such as the iPad), that make information accessible everywhere, changing the way we experience and inhabit public space?
The New City Reader adopts the traditional format of the weekly newspaper, but only in part. Taking inspiration from a custom of hanging entire newspapers on boards in the streets or pasting them on walls in public places so they can be read collectively, this newspaper will be affixed in a multitude of locations around Lower Manhattan. Each week's edition‭ (‬of approximately 1,000‭) ‬will address a specific question or topic related to the spatial implications of the disappearance of the newspaper‭; ‬the majority will be disseminated in the New Museum‭; ‬20-30‭ ‬will be affixed in specific locations chosen either for their prominence and visibility to a large audience‭, ‬or for their proximity to sites mentioned in that specific issue‭. ‬The current issue will also be visible to the public on the wall of the‭ ‬'editorial office'‭ ‬in the New Museum‭.‬
A crucial aspect of this project is the scalable design of the newspapers‭. ‬They will be legible in two distinct formats‭: ‬as normal broadsheet-sized papers‭, ‬and as billboardsize posters‭, ‬designed to grab the attention of the passing public‭ (‬large type‭,‬ multipage graphics‭). ‬The content of the newspapers will be not just textual but also graphical‭: ‬illustrations‭, ‬photographs and supergraphics will be used as well‭.‬ This project is seen as an opportunity to take‭ ‬The Last Newspaper‭ ‬beyond the walls of the New Museum and out into public space‭, ‬engaging a broad audience and raising public awareness of the debates taking place in the museum‭.‬

article from http://newcityreader.net/

CU Lecture - The New City Reader

01.31.11
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Alan Rapp, Joseph Grima, Kazys Varnelis, Mark Wigley, Richard Flood
On news, space and politics: a post-mortem of the New City Reader, the first New York broadsheet to go under in 2011.

Richard Flood, New Museum; Joseph Grima, Domus; Alan Rapp, Author / Editor; Kazys Varnelis, Netlab, Columbia GSAPP and Mark Wigley, Dean, Columbia GSAPP

www.newcityreader.net

CU Lecture - Mediated Matter, Neri Oxman

01.24.11
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Neri Oxman

Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, Boston


Organized for Post Parametric 4: Bio

Moderated by David Benjamin, GSAPP and The Living and Michael Reed, Columbia Computer Science and Blue Sky Studios