OUR WORLD IN DESIGN: Immortal Spaces
is a one-day symposium on the spaces that make us human, the legacies we leave behind, and the future we want to build.
STAY INFORMED!
SPEAKERS
Michael Arad
Andrea Armstrong
Spencer Bailey
Marlon Blackwell
Ángel Cabrera
Jack Cebe
Kristy Edmunds
Rodney Ellis
Shirley Franklin
Alex Grodd
Phil Harrison
Are Høidal
Julie Ju-Youn Kim
BJ Miller
Susan Magsamen
Michael P. Murphy
Monica Obniski
Brandan “BMIKE” Odums
Joshua Roman
Samuel Stubblefield
Dan Tangherlini
Jonathan Tate
Hank Willis Thomas
Gregory Thompson
Andrew Westover
Jeff Williams
Dela Wilson
+ more
LOCATION
High Museum
of Art
Hill Auditorium
1280 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
ABOUT
Architecture has always flirted with the spectrum and seduction of immortality. The things that we create, we imagine, will shape the world we leave to the next generation. And why shouldn’t we? History has been written in the physical forms of buildings, in monuments, and the names of places in which we live. And to be the author of these structures is to set in stone narratives and stories for others to be influenced and guided by. As Winston Churchill famously said, “We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us.”
But the space-shaping field is shifting beneath us. Structures are becoming automated, technologists are now chasing physical as well as physiological immortality; outer space is the next frontier of building forms and authorship is increasingly artificial while it is becoming a politicized center of the culture wars around us. Recent advances in neurological research are showing us that space, architecture, and built form influence sensory responses, and shape neurological reactions at an elemental unconscious deeper level. How we shape structures is changing, but they are still shaping us.
As we explore new frontiers of inhabitation and culture, spaces and their design matter more than ever. Who the architect is, however, might be the contested ground we no longer need to wrestle over.
Our World in Design: Immortal Spaces explores these dimensions of spatial politics and space making; and the hot button issues of why architecture remains at the center of them all, despite where authorship, mortality, and the meaning of space changes amidst us.
We are convening a group of thinkers, practitioners and curious advocates to chart the paths required to imagine the space we need for tomorrow.
SCHEDULE
April 15
Evening (limited preview)
Michael P. Murphy in conversation with
Gene Kansas and Ellen Bassett
Our World in Ten Buildings:
How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live
by Michael P. Murphy
Hosted by A Cappella Books at Wrecking Bar Brewpub
292 Moreland Ave NE
April 16
Morning
Rodney Ellis, Shirley Franklin, Jeff Williams, Dan Tangherlini
Visit Isamu Noguchi
“I am not a designer”
at the High Museum
April 16
Afternoon
Palliative Aesthetics and Preparing for Life Beyond Earth BJ Miller, Susan Magsamen
[world premier of an immersive musical performance by Joshua Roman and Samuel Stubblefield]
Hosted by Perkins&Will Atlanta
CONTACT
For more information, please visit our Instagram, or email info@ourworldindesign.com