2022 Exhibit Columbus Symposium: Public by Design

Event Details

Join Landmark Columbus Foundation for the 2022 Exhibit Columbus Symposium: Public by Design.

In a format designed to inspire engagement from communities within Columbus, around the state and far beyond, the two-day event will feature sessions with the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize recipients, university design research fellows, a high school design team, graphic designers, curators, three inspiring keynote speakers and others.

Day one of the symposium kicks off at the Commons (300 Washington St.) with a keynote presentation from Trinity Simons Wagner, the executive director of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design. She’ll talk about the importance of mayors being the chief urban designers of their cities and the recently launched Just City Mayoral Fellowship.

The day will continue with two types of sessions that will run at the same time:

• EXPLORE sessions will allow you to visit the site at which each Miller Prize recipient is paired during this cycle of Exhibit Columbus.
• CONNECT sessions will take place at the Commons and allow you to hear from each Miller Prize recipient and learn about the history, community and design challenge for each site.

The day culminates in a keynote conversation with all of the Miller Prize participants moderated by Julie McClure, editor of The Republic newspaper, who has more than twenty years of experience writing for Indiana papers.

2022-23 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipients

• Practice for Architecture Urbanism | PAU (New York)
• Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO (Mexico City)
• Studio Zewde (Harlem)
• PORT (Philadelphia and Chicago)

Sessions will be moderated by one of the six curatorial partners:

• Paola Aguirre, Urban Designer, BORDERLESS
• Chris Merritt, Landscape Architect, Merritt Chase
• Lauren M. Pacheco, Civic and Cultural Artist, Steel Studio Foundation
• Bryony Roberts, Designer, Writer, Educator, Bryony Roberts Studio
• Raymund Ryan, Curator at Large, The Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art
• Holly Warren, Assistant Director for the Arts, City of Bloomington

For a complete description of sessions, visit the symposium’s website. To register for the day one sessions, click on the RSVP link above.

The 2022 Exhibit Columbus Symposium is part of a series of programming that received support from an Indiana Humanities Collaboration Grant.