Keeping up with Designs for Different Futures

Exhibition

Oct 25

A look back at the landmark exhibition that made Philadelphia think twice about the future it’s working towards.

Human-digital interaction, climate change, political and social inequality, resource scarcity, transportation, and infrastructure are among the themes of Designs for Different Futures, a groundbreaking exhibition that travelled from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It will be on view at the Walker from Sept 12, 2020 to April 11, 2021.

Buy the book online at the PMA to experience it all from home.

*(Yale University Press, $40) Philadelphia Museum of Art Store.*

Several compelling discussions and related events are accessible online.

1

Artist Mary Maggic discusses their artistic research in DIY hormone hacking. Environmental toxicity, the body, and gender politics are considered in relation to works like their speculative video Housewives Making Drugs.

2

Artist and biological designer Orkan Telhan explores the different roles that microorganisms can play in shaping the future of the human diet. Breakfast Before Extinction addresses the creative possibilities of cellular agriculture.

3

Panel discussion on the City Beautiful urban planning movement of the early 20th century that has deep ties to Philadelphia and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Panelists include Michelle Millar Fisher, Diane Harris, Danielle Wood, Nolan Ryan Trow (23 March 2019)

4

A discussion of products that improve women’s daily lives, from fitness to sexuality and menstruation to menopause. With Michelle Millar Fisher, Paola Antonelli, Jimena Acosta Romero. (2 Sept 2020)

5

Conversation with Shalini Kentayya, filmmaker, Coded Bias, and professor Meredith Broussard on the ethical issues surrounding race, privacy, surveillance and technology. (8 Oct 2020) Read more.

*Collage by Ryan Gerald Nelson, with photography by Bobby Rogers. © Walker Art Center.*

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This program unpeels the possible future of the food world as we know it. Presentations by members of the Twin Cities local food community. (17 Sept 2020). Read More.