Staff Reports
Exhibit Columbus has awarded seven University Design Research Fellowships to leading professors of architecture, landscape architecture and design from American universities who will create installations for the 2021 exhibition highlighting their research.
University Design Research Fellows were selected for their ability to tackle specific sets of issues pertaining to the future of the city and the Mississippi Watershed region, such as sustainability and material reuse, non-human habitat, watershed ecologies, emergent technologies and migration.
University Design Research Fellows for 2020-21 are:
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Ang Li Projects, Northeastern University
Joyce Hwang, University of Buffalo
Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, AGENCY/Texas Tech College of Architecture, El Paso
Lola Sheppard and Mason White, Lateral Office, University of Waterloo and University of Toronto
Derek Hoeferlin, Washington University in St. Louis
Natalie Yates, Ball State University
Jei Jeeyea Kim, Indiana University
The “New Middles” exhibition will also introduce two Photography Fellows as part of the exhibition. Over the course of 2020-21, the two will document parts of Columbus, the heartland, and the Mississippi watershed from social, economic and environmental perspectives and present the work in innovative ways as part of the exhibition.
The Photography Fellows will be Virginia Hanusik, New Orleans and David Schalliol, Minneapolis.
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The Columbus High School Design Team will be creating an installation for the exhibition as part of classwork in the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp C4 program.
In addition to this installation, the entire exhibition will be tied together with dynamic wayfinding and a graphic design system designed by Jeremiah Chiu of Some All None in Los Angeles.
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