Here are some screen captures of Daniel Eatock’s performance from last year’s Insights design lecture series. Watch this and other design lectures at the Walker Channel archive.
Enough of that. Let’s talk about the future:
Reinventions: Insights Design Lecture Series 2008
March 4: Marian Bantjes
March 11: Work Worth Doing
March 18: Project Projects
March 25: Ed Fella
Look for mini-interviews with the speakers as we get closer to March.
Several months ago, as part of the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, we asked you to tell us a story about your suburb and put it on Youtube for the world to see. We received over 30 submissions, which is extraordinary. We’ve whittled the list down to the best submissions, which will be shown in the “family room” in the exhibition at the Walker and featured on the Worlds Away exhibition wiki (more details on that here). Next week, I’ll be blogging about the interesting way we’re putting the videos in the gallery on the New Media blog. Congratulations are in order to the selected participants, and a huge thanks to all those who submitted their work. Here is a player with all the selected submissions and a list of them following:
I've been asked by Pub, the new CalArts student publication to send a message on its behalf. Below is a quick note from Pub. –Silas
Hey,
Hi. My dearest Walker Design Blog readers, It’s Pub. You may not know me, but I want to know you. So, I'll be honest. I'm small. Though don't let my 6 5/8″ by 9 1/2″ size fool you. 80 pages thick, one 16 page 4-color signature, 2 spot colors throughout, and printed in Canada--I'm more than just a series of measurements.
I am a publication for the graphic rabble rousers. On the other hand, perhaps I’m for the graphically timid? Be visually meek no longer! Gaze at my pages. Just don't take my copy at face value, okay? Really try to digest it. Thanks much.
Big names like Fella, Keedy, MicFetridge, and Toffe grace my pages. But so do big guns like Dulaney, Erdenberer, Fong and Gehlhaar. Johnson, Lebeda, Prinz, Robbins and Roettinger too. Julie Mattei is my mother, so I guess that makes me Parisian, but my soul is 100% California (via France, Germany, New York, etc).
Please note a single mother does not a pub make. We all know it takes a well designed Village--I was shepherded into the world by CalArts students, faculty and alums. I wouldn’t be what I am without their wondrous amalgamation of interviews, stories, photographs, drawings and heaps and piles of graphic design.
Please take a moment to order me. I do so love to travel.
Love,
Pub
The 2008 Emerging Green Builders Natural Talent Design Competition is focusing on the Southern Theater, the century-old landmark for performing arts in the Seven Corners area of
Multi-disciplinary teams of up to five designers can compete. Local winners will receive a $1,000 and an expenses-paid trip to
Join us Thursday, November 29 at 7:00pm for our latest installment of the Drawn Here series, featuring a lecture by VJAA's Vincent James and Jennifer Yoos. The two will discuss their "polyvalent approach" to design in which architectural forms respond to a specific impetus: a client's proclivities, prevailing climatic conditions, or the desire to reframe social interactions.
Although based in Minneapolis and known for local projects such as Dayton House (1997) and Minneapolis Rowing Club Boathouse (2001), the firm's geographically diverse work includes the Hostler Student Center at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon (2007); residential loft projects in New York and Chicago; and an upcoming gatehouse for the University of Cincinnati campus.
Free tickets for this event will be available at the Bazinet Garden lobby desk from 6 pm.
Just a quick note for those in Minneapolis this weekend:
Cliche is having an artist reception this Friday (Nov. 16th) from 7-9pm for stencil artist John Grider.
Grider is known for his large scale, vibrantly colored stencils and, outside of numerous shows within the Twin Cities, has also shown work in Australia, Israel, Nevada and New Mexico within the past year.
Do you live in a suburb?
Do you work or go to school in one?
What is your experience of the “burbs?”
Whether you love them or hate them we’re interested in your thoughts on the phenomenon of the American suburb. We invite you to make a 5-minute video about strip malls, cul-de-sacs, office parks, and green lawns or whatever suburbia means to you. A select number of videos will be chosen to screen as part of the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes in the Target Gallery from February 15 to May 18, 2008.
To participate, upload your video to YouTube and add the tag “walkerworldsaway” or post it as a response to our video above. We’ll feature all videos on the Walker’s YouTube page. To be considered for gallery screening, entries must be 5 minutes or less and be online by January 18, 2008.
Design Director and Curator Andrew Blauvelt will be selecting the videos to screen in the gallery. We’ll contact selectees via YouTube to notify them and follow up for any additional contact information.
If you have any questions, email witt(dot)siasoco(at)walkerart(dot)org.
P.S. Thanks to Witt and Brent for helping to create this video. Brent knows a lot of things about Maple Grove.
Join us this Thursday night (November 8) at 7:00 pm for the newest installment of our Drawn Here series, a lecture by architect David Adjaye. Adjaye founded London-based Adjaye/Associates in 2000, and has since garnered international acclaim for designs that explore the dualities of "private retreat and public engagement." Known for his residential and studio designs for international actors and artists (check out his project with Olafur Eliasson, and his project with Chris Ofili) the architect's civic buildings--libraries, multiresidential housing developments, and museums--explore the conditions of their public nature, providing answers to the architect's own query, "What is a public building in the twenty-first century?" Through projects such as the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway (2005), the new Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver (2007), and a planned five-star hotel and residences for downtown St.Paul, Adjaye addresses the challenges of designing multipurpose spaces for diverse communities.
Also, (landscape) designers Mike and Matt of Minneapolis firm Rolu Dsgn have a great design/art blog that I’ll be checking out regularly, with a nice post about the Adjaye lecture (that just happens to mention our blog as well!).
Art and architecture merge with miniature golf in this open call to create holes for the next
Walker in the Rough, which debuted in 2004, returns in 2008 to the grass that will house the
The course, which opens Memorial Day weekend and closes in early September, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the
Print or download an application here. For more info, contact Christi Atkinson, associate director of Education and Community Programs, at (612) 375-7572 or christi.atkinson@walkerart.org.
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