Exhibit Columbus has built another publicity piece into its marketing and awareness plan.
The new feature, an online podcast, is in partnership with Archinect, a website at archinect.com designed to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and to bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines.
Beginning with co-curators Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger and Archinect founder Paul Petrunia, “Part 1: A Conversation with the Curators” explores the exhibition theme “New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City?”
That theme builds on Columbus’ legacy as a laboratory for design as a civic investment to explore the future of the center of the United States and the regions connected by the Mississippi Watershed. The Mississippi Watershed is all the land area that drains into the Mississippi River.
Los Angeles-based Mimi Zeiger is a critic, editor, curator and instigator. Iker Gil is an architect and director of MAS Studio, a collaborative architecture and design firm based in Chicago.
This first podcast episode describes the 2020–21 cycle of Exhibit Columbus in relation to five installations by the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize recipients. The designers awarded the Miller Prize were each selected for “their commitment to the transformative power that architecture, art, and design have to improve people’s lives and make cities better places to live,” according to organizers.
“Our conversations touch on each project within the context of the designer’s body of work, the process involved during the research and development, and finally discussing each installation in detail,” said Anne Surak, Exhibit Columbus director.
The installations will be unveiled in person with a ticketed preview party on Aug. 20 and will be open to the public from Aug. 21 to Nov. 28.
