Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design
11 December '10 – 20 July '11
Art Institute Chicago
Chicago
Bringing together an international group of designers that work across disciplines, "Hyperlinks", looks to highlight the increasing influence of designers within society. Curated by British expatriate Zoe Ryan, the show features many familiar designers from Europe such as Studio Makkink & Bey, Matali Crasset, and Troika.
From the Art Institute of Chicago:
The Internet has undoubtedly transformed the world we live in; its unprecedented access to and layering of information lead to greater interaction and engagement, and a complex understanding of our place in the world. However, this innovative method of accumulating and remixing data is also occurring across the fields of architecture and design. A fluid exchange between these disciplines—fueled by advances in production processes, materials research, social and environmental concerns, and influences drawn from scientific and biological research—is resulting in new attitudes to architecture and design that are opening up these subject areas and stretching their range of influence.
With an eye to these inventive links between practices, this exhibition presents more than 30 projects that span from architecture and furniture to multimedia and conceptual design from an international group of architects and designers, including Florencia Pita/mod, Jurgen Mayer H., R&Sie(n), Experimental Jetset, Emergent/Tom Wiscombe, Arik Levy, Studio Makkink & Bey, Shigeru Ban, Joris Laarman, Nacho Carbonell, and Matali Crasset.
