COLUMBUS, Ind. — The architectural entity known as Exhibit Columbus keeps building on its visibility and global reach.
And the tabulated results of its latest symposium — one that some worried could be understandably diminished in impact when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the event online and stretched over a two-month period — show that the happening turned adversity into one of the organization’s proudest moments.
That includes single session viewership numbers as high as 3,000 people worldwide among its eight online conversations from Sept. 15 to Oct. 29 under the theme “What Is the Future of the Middle City?” And its co-curators couldn’t be happier with those numbers.
One of those curators, Los Angeles-based architecture critic, editor, and author Mimi Zeiger said as much as she spoke by phone from Los Angeles shortly after discussing some of the symposium’s stats earlier this week. Zeiger worked alongside Chicago architect, curator, editor and friend Iker Gil to plan the symposium.
The Exhibit Columbus program is an exploration of art, architecture, design, and community that highlights the city’s Modernist design legacy stretching more than 75 years.
“I don’t think we had an exact expectation of what the numbers would be like,” Zeiger said. “But we’re really overjoyed that the content was able to reach people and resonate with folks really all over the globe.
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