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 two of thesymposium begins at Columbus City Hall (123 Washington St.) with a keynote conversation with Rachel Kaplan-David, the director of the Chicago Architectural Biennial, and Jenny Gil Schmitz, the executive director of Desert X—two of the country’s leading cultural programs that create site responsive art and architecture installations. The conversation will be moderated by Rasul Mowatt, department head of parks, recreation and tourism management at North Carolina State University. Sessions will continue throughout the day with the university design research fellows in conversation with James Lima Planning + Development, a leading urban strategy consultancy.

2022–23 University Design Research Fellows

• Joseph Altshuler (School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Zack Morrison (Chicago)
• Esteban Garcia Bravo and Maria Clara Morales (Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.)
• Jessica Colangelo and Charles Sharpless (University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, Fayetteville)
• Deborah Garcia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, Cambridge)
• Molly Hunker and Greg Corso (Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, N.Y.)
• Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann (University of Virginia School of Architecture, Charlottesville)
• Halina Steiner, Tameka Baba, Forbes Lipschitz (Austin E. Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, Columbus) and Shelby Doyle (Iowa State University College of Design, Ames)

Saturday will conclude with a session about graphic design and wayfinding systems with Chris Grimley, a principal at the firm OverUnder in conversation with Rick Valicenti, an independent producer, designer, and Landmark Columbus Foundation design director. The day will conclude with introductions to the high school design team and elementary STEM students.

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 two 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.