designinquiry
Futurespective
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Aliveness

Futurespective Perspectives : Real-time in the galleries

Under the DI tenet that “Everything is a Project,” this ongoing series of artists and designers are invited to work on discrete projects in the Gallery.

Designers in Residence

These are individuals and/or collaborators who offer unique approaches to a design practice (broadly interpreted). This dedicated time is an invitation to test and produce work that offers alternative, future-oriented ideas within the gallery.

Cinder Block Printing Press Steve Bowden and Peter Evonuk install a 2,500lb. participatory sculpture surrounded by a collection of objects and remnants that examine and illuminate undervalued and unrecognized units of our everyday lives.

Bread making in the gallery using Charles Melcher’s bread machine, and documenting current and past DesignInquiry bread making explorations toward a publication from Maia Wright, Associate Professor, Design & Computation Arts, Concordia University, Montreal Canada.

Exploration of bird migration patterns and urban form with Nick Liadis, Pittsburgh-based architect, banding technician, safe bird design specialist, through in-gallery presentations and in-the-field architectural and birding expeditions.

First Friday Art Walk performative dance piece featuring o t i t o (a palindrome); from Sondra Graff and Petra van Noort.

Workshops and activities exploring the “Futurespective” of the graphic design discipline (cooking, making, printing) led by North Carolina State University Master of Graphic Design students, with Denise Gonzales Crisp, Futurespective Co-Curator, Professor, Graphic Design, MGD Program Director, and drummer.

MECA School Wide Visiting Artists

odney Sayers, a Hupacasath artist from Ahswinis, Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada; Matt Soar, Intermedia Artist, Filmmaker, and Writer from Montreal, Québec, Canada; and Bethany Johns, Print + Publication Designer for the Arts, Providence, RI., are invited who critically engage history within contemporary practice, with diverse and international approaches to their subject matter to inform and inspire the broad MECA community.

DesignInquiry Pop-Up Gathering Currency

DI’s Currency Inquiry invites up to 50 participants from multiple disciplines through an open call for proposals to challenge and explore the topic Currency over one weekend, inside the Gallery. Pecha-kucha length public presentations, intensive prototyping and making, on-site cooking, adaptations to the exhibition installation, and the production of an in-situ publication on Currency are all part of the (un)expected outcomes from this very special Inquiry weekend. Regarded as a homecoming for past DesignInquirers and a locus for of-the-moment meeting of the minds and exchange of ideas.

DesignInquiry Convivium [Symposium]

Neither an academic symposium nor a design conference, the Futurespective Convivium is a congenial day-long gathering in which we will debate and discuss and ruminate and celebrate the significance of a futurespective perspective in design and culture.

DesignInquiry Universal Lunch Common Hours

In person and via teleconference for the run of the exhibition, Common Hours are an opportunity to join the conversation with a madcap tag team of interesting thinkers and makers, all with fascinating, disparate practices. Taking place weekly, a changing roster of scheduled and drop-in conversationalists will interact with gallery visitors.

Universal Lunch Common Hours tweaks DesignInquiry’s “Moø0ooOC” format (not a Massive Online Open Course, rather, a Miniature Online Open Conversation) specifically for the Futurespective, asking participants to discuss the present and future of design (as they see it), with any and all visitors and with each other--and prompts for discussion will circulate ahead of time and be posted in the gallery. Common Hours also feature weekly hosts (a personable mashup of cabaret MC, Oxford don, and museum docent) who will keep things lively, fielding questions and offering commentary about design futures, DesignInquiry, and work/activities in the exhibition as it unfolds. DesignInquiry Common Hours will be streamed, recorded and archived online.

Universal Lunch (Out of Office (Un)Common Hours) Live Stream

Each Thursday, from 11:30–1:30, the ICA will host a limited-run live-streaming web series produced by DesignInquiry on the occasion of Futurespective. Each conversation will feature Gabrielle Esperdy and Jimmy Luu in conversation with designers and contributors. You can watch the livestream in the ICA, or at youtube.com/designinquiry.

Calendar of Events September 30 – October 4, 2019

  • Residency: Install curatorial team
  • Residency: Steve Bowden and Peter Evonuk Wednesday, October 2, 2019: 6PM
  • MECA&D Visiting Artist Lecture: Rod Sayers Friday, October 4, 2019: 5 – 8PM
  • Opening Reception & First Friday Art Walk October 4 – October 13, 2019
  • Residency: AK/OK (M. Wright & Kate Jarboe) October 10 – October 13, 2019
  • DesignInquiry Pop-Up CURRENCY October 28 – November 3, 2019
  • Residency: Nick Liadis October 31, 2019: 6PM
  • MECA&D Visiting Artist Lecture: Matt Soar November 1 – November 5, 2019
  • Residency: Denise Gonzales Crisp + The Fugacious Collective (NCState MGD students) November 2, 2019: 10AM – 5PM
  • Convivium [Symposium] November 4 – November 10, 2019
  • Residency: Tricia Treacy and Arzu Ozkal December 5, 2019: 6PM
  • MECA&D Visiting Artist Lecture: Bethany Johns December 6, 2019: 5 – 8PM
  • First Friday Art Walk featuring performative dance from Sondra Graff and Petra van Noort December 6-7, 2019: 5:30 – 10PM
  • Not the Holiday Sale: A public sale of works and components from the Futurespective exhibition and participants December 6 + 7, 2019: Friday, 5:30 - 10:00 PM | Saturday, 10:00 AM - 5:00PM
  • MECA&D-GD HOMECOMING CROCKPOTLUCK: A gathering for Maine College of Art & Design Graphic Design alumni December 13, 2019: 5:00 - 7:00 PM