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Looking up: Armstrong Ceiling Design Competition
Beatty Hall Douglas D. Schumann Library
Wentworth Institute of Technology
550 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
Please check the website for hours at https://library.wit.edu/visit/
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The Armstrong Ceiling Student Design Competition exhibition takes place in the Wentworth Institute of Technology's library. The exhibition displays five Interior Design student designs selected from the Competition. Students designed for a month in their senior-level studio taught by Professors Lynette Panarelli and Nancy Harrod. The goal of the competition was to think inventively and creatively about ceilings and all that they entail: grids, materials, lighting, sprinklers, diffusers, and speakers.
Armstrong Ceiling Design Competition
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The Architecture of Time
Boston Society of Architects
290 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02110
Exhibition is free and open through May 15, 2020
Details at https://www.architects.org/
Part of a series of rotating photography exhibitions that will take place at BSA Space. Exhibitions feature a roster of photographers exploring themes related to architecture, the built environment, and the power of design to transform and improve people’s lives. The Architecture of Time features photography that represents creative perspectives on the built or designed environment dealing with time or history through an architectural lens.
The Architecture of Time
Joni Lohr, "Blue Windows", 2018. Ruins of the Fisher Body Plant 21, built in Detroit in 1919.
Ongoing Throughout Boston Design Week
Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives
McMullen Museum at Boston College
2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02135
Exhibition is free and open through May 31, 2020
Details at www.bc.edu/sites/artmuseum
Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives features videos, collages, paintings, sculptures, interactive installations, and photographs by renowned artists whose deep ties to the lands surrounding the Indian Ocean inform their work. In the exhibition, artistic narratives are in conversation with the findings of scientists as animations, maps, films, and interviews illuminate the unusual geology of the Indian Ocean and the myriad, catastrophic effects of climate change in that region and across the globe.
Indian Ocean Current
Penny Siopis (b. 1953), Warm Waters [8], 2018–19. © Penny Siopis, courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Cape Town
Ongoing Throughout Boston Design Week
Fashion and Design Gallery
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Peabody Essex Museum
161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
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Details at www.pem.org
PEM’s Fashion and Design gallery invites visitors to consider that we are designing creatures who continually manipulate, respond to, and mold our changing world. Ensembles from the Iris Apfel Rare Bird of Fashion collection celebrate the exuberant remixing and inventive styling of one of the world’s most prominent fashion icons, while constellations of unique and culturally significant works of design, fashion, and textiles explore distinctive and resourceful forms of creative expression.
Fashion and Design Gallery
Iris Apfel ensemble. © Peabody Essex Museum. Photography by Bob Packert
Ongoing Throughout Boston Design Week
Clay — Modeling African Design
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Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Details at Harvardartmuseums.org
This exhibition highlights artistic innovation and creativity in Africa as seen primarily through the traditions of ceramic arts from across the continent and over its long history. Countering the assumption that African arts and societies are largely unchanging and bound to traditions and customs, the remarkable diversity of objects and styles on display here tells a different story. The unique malleability and plasticity of clay, as well as its prominent use in global art contexts, make it ideal for exploring not only African art forms and aesthetics in particular, but also broader questions of design.
Clay — Modeling African Design
Ceramic pitcher with spout and handle, Algeria, Kabyle, late 19th–early 20th century. © President and Fellows of Harvard College; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Ongoing Throughout Boston Design Week
Durable: Sustainable Material Ecologies,
Assemblies, and Cultures
Boston Society of Architects
290 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02110
Exhibition is free and open through May 31, 2020
Details at https://www.architects.org/
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DURABLE is a design imperative to construct sustainable environments that promote not only long material life cycles, but also enduring cultural significance. It challenges those to consider the lifespan and the global and local impact of buildings by demonstrating how the design for durability can shape a sustainable future. The visual information and interactive displays offer experiences for people of all ages to engage with the cultural and environmental benefits of design that embraces the full material life cycle of architecture.
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