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NETWORK (TEMPORARY PERMANENT COLLECTION)
Exhibition Dates: 05 November 2011 - 28 November 2011
Exhibition Reception: 10 November 2011, 6-9 pm
Friends of D center! You’re invited to participate in D center Baltimore’s next exhibition, by and about our design community, Network (Temporary Permanent Collection).
In the past three years, D center Baltimore has been working hard to advocate for design awareness in the Baltimore community and beyond. With our recent expansion into the 218 Saratoga Street storefront gallery, D center @ MAP, and with our receipt of the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Placemaking Grant for our proposal with Maryland Institute College of Art, Central Baltimore Partnership, and Station North Arts and Entertainment District, we feel now is the time to revisit the questions that inspired our big tent: “Does Baltimore need a design center? If so, what would it look like, and what can it do?”
Since the first meetings were held to parse what a design center should and could be in Baltimore, many of you have played a vital role in the conversation. In thanks for your past service and in encouragement your continued involvement in the future of design in the city, we invite you to participate in our next exhibition, Network (Temporary Permanent Collection). D center @ MAP would like to include a representation of what design means to you - a project you have worked on, an advertisement of your organization, a doodle on a napkin, a letter of support, or any kind of visual media or contribution that indicates your relationship to design. Please include a brief description of the work, no more than 150 words.
Because D center includes, by mission and by practice, diverse incarnations of design, these specifications are intentionally vague. Simply submit a work that you feel best visualizes yourself or your discipline. We ask that your work be delivered, or arranged for us to pick it up, before 2 November 2011. Please RSVP by 26 October 2011.
You are welcome and encouraged to use this invitation to include others you feel would be interested in participating in not only the exhibition, but also the future of D center.
We are thankful for all that you do for the design community, and we look forward to celebrating you and your work in Network (Temporary Permanent Collection). For questions and to RSVP, please contact marian.glebes@gmail.com or mkamoss@gmail.com.
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SECOND EXHIBITION - H2OMG
Exhibition Dates: September 5, 2011 – October 6, 2011
Exhibition Reception: September 23, 2011, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
D center @ MAP announces H2OMG, its second exhibition in its storefront gallery at 218 Saratoga Street. H2OMG responds to and expands on the geographic and conceptual boundaries challenged by University of Virginia School of Architecture Professors Robin Dripps, Lucia Phinney, and Jorg Sieweke at Design Conversation #28: Re-envisioning Public Infrastructure. Sieweke’s work explores the future of the Jones Falls River that once shaped the city and has been neglected and buried in an underground culvert to make room for an inner city expressway, while Dripps and Phinney’s studies reveal the potential for a new form of local infrastructure including intersecting networks of rainwater harvesting, collection, and distribution; local agricultural production, processing and sales; and local material salvaging, repurposing, and commercial distribution.
H2OMG highlights their research and discourse surrounding the Jones Falls River, past, present, and future, and introduces local voices to the conversation by inviting Baltimore projects that investigate water, urban resources, watersheds, and conceptual and participatory gestures. Biohabitats, whose company mission is to “restore the earth and inspire ecological stewardship” through innovative conservation and regenerative design, will install a living wetland, removed from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, in the gallery to accompany their research and action on behalf of the city’s water systems.
Additional participants include but are not limited to Blue Water Baltimore. Curatorial/exhibition design assistance provided by Daphne Lasky, who received her M.Arch. from UVA in 2011.
H2OMG is currently open by appointment or during open hours as posted at http://dcenterbaltimore.tumblr.com/. Exhibition reception is planned for September 23, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Additional organizations and participants are being added and updated daily until the close of the exhibition, and these additions will focus on urban waterways and work executed as critique, solution, suggestion, or conceptual response to Baltimore’s water infrastructures, be they park, sewer, harbor, or tap.
If you are interested in participating in D center @ MAP or have any questions about the exhibition, please contact Marian Glebes at marian.glebes@gmail.com or Marianne Amoss at mkamoss@gmail.com.
