Futurespective November
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It's another big week as we careen through the Future[spective] !
Here are 7 (+ one bonus) ways you can participate in DesignInquiry's Futurespective exhibition and activities happening now at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA:WED LECTURE 6PM / OSHER
NICK LIADIS — DESIGNER IN RESIDENCETHURS UNIVERSAL LUNCH LIVE WEB SERIES
11:20-1 / ICA & ONLINETHURS BREAD BAKING DEMO 12-1 / ICA
CHARLES MELCHER — BAKER IN RESIDENCETHURS BIRDING WALK 12-1 / MEET IN ICA
NICK LIADIS — DESIGNER IN RESIDENCETHURS LECTURE 6PM / OSHER
MATT SOAR — ARTIST IN RESIDENCEFIRST FRI CURATOR'S WALKTHROUGH 5-8 / ICA
INC. NEW RESIDENCY INSTALLATIONSSAT CONVIVIUM 11-5 / ICA
LIKE A SYMPOSIUM ONLY FRIENDLIER
Birds and Buildings
by Nick G Liadis, RA, DI Futurespective Designer in ResidenceWednesday, October 30th, 6–7pm
MECA, Osher Hall, Second floor
Free and open to the public
Nick G Liadis is a cross-disciplinary thinker working at the interface of architecture and avian conservation biology. Trained as an architect—balancing professional practice with teaching at Carnegie Mellon and Chatham Universities—he’s defined a new approach to architecture by expanding a strong interest in the natural world, and in particular, birdlife. Central to this cross-disciplinary work is protecting birds from colliding into the windows of buildings, which occurs when they get tricked into perceiving their habitat reflected in glass.
Nick has expanded his research with appointments at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory in California, and at the Powdermill Avian Research Center and Fallingwater Institute in Pennsylvania. His bi-coastal experiences have given him tremendous insight into the struggles birds face when they encounter North American cities. This unique perspective is defined by promoting healthy landscapes across the multitude of environments that birds traverse as they migrate, from forests to cities.
As a research fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Nick leverages his cross-disciplinary background with the depth of resources at the museum, such as the Bird Safe Pittsburgh Program. With his endorsement by the American Bird Conservancy and the American Institute of Architects to teach about bird-safe cities and buildings, he unites architects, planners, policy makers, and scientists around the protection of birds in cities.
DesignInquiry's Universal Lunch Web Series:
Next Episode Oct. 31 @ 11:30 EST
Intrepid hosts Jimmy Luu and Gabrielle Esperdy welcome Nick Liadis
,
Matt Soar
and
Vivian Sming
to DesignInquiry's limited run web series,
Universal Lunch
. We already told you about
Nick
and
Matt
; but Vivian! Vivian Sming uses text, image, and new genres to engage in posthuman discourse.
Watch the live broadcast on YouTube or in the ICA gallery at MECA on Thursdays at 11:30am EST, or at your convenience on DesignInquiry's YouTube Channel.
Bread Baking Demo with Charles Melcher
12:00 to 1:00pm in ICA
Perhaps this is leading to DesignInquiry's blossoming interest in different types of butter.
Free and open to the public.
Birding Walk with Nick Liadis
12:00 to 1:00pm
Meet in ICA, plumage optional.
Free and open to the public.
Visiting Artist Talk by Matt Soar
Intermedia Artist, Filmmaker, and WriterThursday, October 31, 6–7pm
MECA, Osher Hall, Second floor
Free and open to the public
Matt Soar is an intermedia artist, experimental filmmaker, and scholar based at Concordia University in Montreal. His creative work and writing are often located at the intersections of residual and emergent media forms and practices. Soar has written extensively about graphic design, visual communication, and cultural production for scholarly and professional audiences. Soar is co-founder and director of the Montreal Signs Project, a growing collection of commercial and civic signs on permanent exhibition at Concordia. His web documentary The Signmakers of Montreal was launched online in 2018. Soar’s project Lost Leaders is an archival, interpretive exploration of the histories of US/Canadian film leader standards. His creative work has screened at venues such as ATA/Other Cinema (San Francisco), Poetics & Politics documentary symposium, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Orphan Film Symposium, Rencontre internationales du documentaire de Montréal, VISONS Montreal, and the Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle).
Curator's Walkthrough // Portland First Friday
DesignInquiry Futurespective
Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA
522 Congress Street, Portland Maine
5-8pm
Join curators Margo Halverson, Denise Gonzales-Crisp, and Gabrielle Esperdy for new perspectives on DesignInquiry's ever-evolving Futurespective, featuring new prompts and presence in the gallery by Nick Liadis, Matt Soar, Peter Evonuk and Steve Bowden, Charles Melcher, and many others.
And last but not least...
DesignInquiry Convivium : Like a symposium, only friendlier
Saturday November 2, 11:00 - 5:00 EST
Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA
Featuring 20 real and virtual DesignInquirers riffing on the question, What does it mean to rethink the past in the present in order to point to the future?
Free & Open to the Public ; no registration required
A fundamental principle of improvisational performance, “yes, and” embodies open-mindedness and a commitment to active engagement and collaboration. “Yes, and” accepts every premise as a reasonable point of departure, no matter how unexpected or absurd, and expects a comparable response—one that will prompt its own “yes, and” in return. In appropriating “yes, and” as a strategy for thinking and making, DesignInquiry acknowledges the lessons of improv masters, from Tina Fey (“there are no mistakes, only opportunities”) to Yoda (“do or do not; there is no try”).
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It's another big week as we careen through the Future[spective] !
Here are 7 (+ one bonus) ways you can participate in DesignInquiry's Futurespective exhibition and activities happening now at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA:WED LECTURE 6PM / OSHER
NICK LIADIS — DESIGNER IN RESIDENCETHURS UNIVERSAL LUNCH LIVE WEB SERIES
11:20-1 / ICA & ONLINETHURS BREAD BAKING DEMO 12-1 / ICA
CHARLES MELCHER — BAKER IN RESIDENCETHURS BIRDING WALK 12-1 / MEET IN ICA
NICK LIADIS — DESIGNER IN RESIDENCETHURS LECTURE 6PM / OSHER
MATT SOAR — ARTIST IN RESIDENCEFIRST FRI CURATOR'S WALKTHROUGH 5-8 / ICA
INC. NEW RESIDENCY INSTALLATIONSSAT CONVIVIUM 11-5 / ICA
LIKE A SYMPOSIUM ONLY FRIENDLIER
Birds and Buildings
by Nick G Liadis, RA, DI Futurespective Designer in ResidenceWednesday, October 30th, 6–7pm
MECA, Osher Hall, Second floor
Free and open to the public
Nick G Liadis is a cross-disciplinary thinker working at the interface of architecture and avian conservation biology. Trained as an architect—balancing professional practice with teaching at Carnegie Mellon and Chatham Universities—he’s defined a new approach to architecture by expanding a strong interest in the natural world, and in particular, birdlife. Central to this cross-disciplinary work is protecting birds from colliding into the windows of buildings, which occurs when they get tricked into perceiving their habitat reflected in glass.
Nick has expanded his research with appointments at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory in California, and at the Powdermill Avian Research Center and Fallingwater Institute in Pennsylvania. His bi-coastal experiences have given him tremendous insight into the struggles birds face when they encounter North American cities. This unique perspective is defined by promoting healthy landscapes across the multitude of environments that birds traverse as they migrate, from forests to cities.
As a research fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Nick leverages his cross-disciplinary background with the depth of resources at the museum, such as the Bird Safe Pittsburgh Program. With his endorsement by the American Bird Conservancy and the American Institute of Architects to teach about bird-safe cities and buildings, he unites architects, planners, policy makers, and scientists around the protection of birds in cities.
DesignInquiry's Universal Lunch Web Series:
Next Episode Oct. 31 @ 11:30 EST
Intrepid hosts Jimmy Luu and Gabrielle Esperdy welcome Nick Liadis
,
Matt Soar
and
Vivian Sming
to DesignInquiry's limited run web series,
Universal Lunch
. We already told you about
Nick
and
Matt
; but Vivian! Vivian Sming uses text, image, and new genres to engage in posthuman discourse.
Watch the live broadcast on YouTube or in the ICA gallery at MECA on Thursdays at 11:30am EST, or at your convenience on DesignInquiry's YouTube Channel.
Bread Baking Demo with Charles Melcher
12:00 to 1:00pm in ICA
Perhaps this is leading to DesignInquiry's blossoming interest in different types of butter.
Free and open to the public.
Birding Walk with Nick Liadis
12:00 to 1:00pm
Meet in ICA, plumage optional.
Free and open to the public.
Visiting Artist Talk by Matt Soar
Intermedia Artist, Filmmaker, and WriterThursday, October 31, 6–7pm
MECA, Osher Hall, Second floor
Free and open to the public
Matt Soar is an intermedia artist, experimental filmmaker, and scholar based at Concordia University in Montreal. His creative work and writing are often located at the intersections of residual and emergent media forms and practices. Soar has written extensively about graphic design, visual communication, and cultural production for scholarly and professional audiences. Soar is co-founder and director of the Montreal Signs Project, a growing collection of commercial and civic signs on permanent exhibition at Concordia. His web documentary The Signmakers of Montreal was launched online in 2018. Soar’s project Lost Leaders is an archival, interpretive exploration of the histories of US/Canadian film leader standards. His creative work has screened at venues such as ATA/Other Cinema (San Francisco), Poetics & Politics documentary symposium, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Orphan Film Symposium, Rencontre internationales du documentaire de Montréal, VISONS Montreal, and the Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle).
Curator's Walkthrough // Portland First Friday
DesignInquiry Futurespective
Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA
522 Congress Street, Portland Maine
5-8pm
Join curators Margo Halverson, Denise Gonzales-Crisp, and Gabrielle Esperdy for new perspectives on DesignInquiry's ever-evolving Futurespective, featuring new prompts and presence in the gallery by Nick Liadis, Matt Soar, Peter Evonuk and Steve Bowden, Charles Melcher, and many others.
And last but not least...
DesignInquiry Convivium : Like a symposium, only friendlier
Saturday November 2, 11:00 - 5:00 EST
Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA
Featuring 20 real and virtual DesignInquirers riffing on the question, What does it mean to rethink the past in the present in order to point to the future?
Free & Open to the Public ; no registration required
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