Design Conversation #43: Prescriptions. Concerning the Relationship between Design and Health Care
CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES | Final Exhibition at D center @ MAP | 22 May 2012 6pm Reception
Join us for our final micro-exhibition in our last event at MAP before our move to Station North!!!
Constructed Landscapes: Serial Spatial Interventions on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal - Reception May 22nd 6 -8pm at D Center @ MAP on 218 W. Saratoga St. Morgan State rethinking one of our region’s oldest constructed methods for movement of things, water, and space!
Free and open to the public.
Design Conversation #42: Think/Make 2
To continue our collaboration with the AIA Baltimore Spring Lecture Series, we’re glad to invite you to Design Convo #42: Think/Make 2. This is the second of two Think/Make conversations organized by AIA Baltimore, in conjunction with their Think/Make lecture series. This time around, conversationalists include Made In Baltimore, Jason Berns of Underarmour, and Karen Lemmert and David Naill of Manifold Design. Come and join in on Tuesday, May 1st, at the Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave., 6:30 pm. See the official invite attached, designed by architect, designer, and lecture series committee member extraordinaire Elaine Asal.
Also, be sure not to miss Tom Oslund, the final speaker in AIA Baltimore’s series proper, the following day, Wednesday May 2nd, in Falvey Hall at MICA’s Brown Center, at 6pm, tickets are $15, and it’s free for any university students, faculty, and staff. For more info about the series, check here.
Brian Mackay-Lyons Lecture | April 18 6pm @ MICA’s Falvey Hall
WILD ART LADIES NIGHT a cabaret
at the 14K Cabaret
$7 bucks
Design Conversation #40 is in collaboration with Station North: the launch of Open Walls Baltimore.
AIA Baltimore’s Spring Lecture Series is coordinated with Dcenter’s Spring Design Convos
WOMEN : an exhibition | D center @ MAP
Women: An Exhibition
D center @ MAP
March 3–April 14, 2012
Opening reception: March 3, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
What makes women awesome? Who are the amazing women you know? How have they
impacted your life and work? What effect have they had on the world? Women: An Exhibition invites participating artists and designers of all genders to create work that celebrates the incredible women they have known, loved, and been influenced by. It is a chance to recognize and pay homage to all that the women in our lives have contributed to us.
By showcasing the work of female artists and designers, exhibiting work about women’s roles in industry, and including projects about women known personally (colleagues, family, friends, mentors, role models, etc.), this show celebrates all the facets and roles of women in our lives.
Curated by Sarah McCann, Women includes work by 39 artists from across the nation, 27 of whom work in Maryland (as well as one local Baltimore community organization) and 11 who hail from Colorado, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and Utah.
D center @ MAP is hosting the exhibition from March 3 through April 14, 2012. The opening reception will be held on March 3, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. D center @ MAP is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Gallery open by appointment. Please call 646-573-5509 to schedule.
Design conversation #39: Logistics
This is an invitation to Design Conversation #39: Logistics. Where do things come from? And where do they go? How does their movement shape the built environment of Baltimore? Come and talk about the future and past of Baltimore’s relationship with the mobilization and distribution of physical objects.
At the Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave., Baltimore, MD. 6:30pm, Tuesday, Feb. 7
With:
Jim Dwyer
Deputy Director of Planning, Maryland Port Admininistration
Sharon Daboin
Resident Vice President, State and Community Affairs, CSX
Fred Scharmen
Dcenter Baltimore
… and others TBA
The Baltimore Design Conversations are a monthly series of events loosely curated by people with ideas about design in Baltimore and beyond. Design Conversations are facilitated with support from Dcenter Baltimore and you. These events are always free, always at the Windup Space, and on the first Tuesday of every month. For more information, please visit www.dcenterbaltimore.com. Cash bar, AV hookup available for spontaneous presentations!
… also keep an eye out for other upcoming events that we’re very excited about; including:
Mining the City: Design Conversation X, at the American Craft Council Show, Sunday, Feb. 26, 3:30, at the Baltimore Convention Center
Women: an exhibition, in partnership with Sarah McCann, opening in March at our space at 218 W. Saratoga St.,
And the AIA Baltimore Annual Lecture Series, coordinating again with Dcenter to bring programming all through the spring!
WE SEARCHED FOR/WE DISCOVERED | exhibition reception 18 january 5:30 -9pm with special guest present, Baltimore AIA
We’re proud to announce WE SEARCHED FOR/WE DISCOVERED, the fourth exhibition hosted by D center @ MAP. Featuring thesis work from MICA’s Environmental Design Class of 2011, and selections from AIA Baltimore’s 2011 Excellence and Design Awards! Please consider this an invitation to the opening reception, Wednesday, January 18th, 5:30 - 8pm.
About MICA’s Environmental Design Program:
This exhibition consists of thesis research created by the Environmental Design Department’s 2011 Thesis Class at Maryland Institute College of Art. ENV, MICA’s department dedicated to training artists to produce and participate in architectural or product design fields, defines Environmental Design as design for the built environment. Its curriculum encompasses design for the context of our daily lives: the neighborhood, the street, the building, the inside space, the chair, and the toy.
ENV teaches a design consciousness that demands a high level of creativity and critical analysis towards design problems in order to transcend the limitations of common design practice. The department teaches the interconnectedness of design and society, and the ways in which good design not only addresses the immediate context of a problem but also considers sustainability across the wider environmental sphere.
The class is taught by Timmy Aziz, John Chow, Kuo Pao Lian. Students include Sunny Chong, Andrea Dombrowski, C Lily Ericsson, Antoine Heath, Ben Howard, Deunte Ford, Cory Frost, Sui Park, Hae Wook Song, Kallie Lin Sternburgh, Kurt Langenfelder Waters.
About AIA Baltimore’s Excellence in Design Awards:
The Excellence in Design Awards is a competition amongst registered architects and intern/associate architects who are currently members of the AIABaltimore, the local chapter of The American Institute of Architects. This competition exhibits the quality design these members have produced locally, regionally, and worldwide. Awards can be given to built or unbuilt architecture, interior architecture, adaptive reuse, planning, renovation, residential, restoration and urban design projects. The 2011 jury members are from the Boston Society of Architects/AIA and include: David Gamble, AIA (Gamble Associates), Rodolfo Machado, AIA (Machado and Silvetti Associates), Robert Miklos, FAIA (designLAB architects). The winners and many of the entrants are on display at the D:Center in January. Other entrants remain on exhibit at the AIABaltimore Gallery.
