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Columbus has added another promotional product to its marketing and awareness plan.
The new feature, an online podcast, is being created in collaboration with Archinect, a website on archinect.com that aims to make architecture more connected and open-minded and to bring designers from around the world together to present new ideas from all disciplines.
Based on the co-curators Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger and Archinect founder Paul Petrunia, “Part 1: A Conversation with the Curators” explores the exhibition theme “New center: From the main street to the megalopolis, what is the future of the Mittelstadt?” .
This theme builds on Columbus’ legacy as a laboratory of design as a civic investment to explore the future of the center of the United States and the regions connected by the Mississippi watershed. The Mississippi watershed is the entire area of land that flows into the Mississippi River.
Los Angeles-based Mimi Zeiger is a critic, editor, curator, and instigator. Iker Gil is the architect and director of MAS Studio, a collaborative architecture and design firm based in Chicago.
This first podcast episode describes the 2020-21 cycle of the Columbus exhibition in relation to five installations by the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize winners. The designers who won the Miller Prize were each selected for “their commitment to the transformative power of architecture, art and design to improve people’s lives and make cities more livable,” according to the organizers.
“Our conversations touch on each project in the context of the designer’s work, the research and development process and finally the detailed discussion of each installation,” said Anne Surak, Director of Exhibit Columbus.
The installations will be unveiled in person on August 20 with a ticket preview party and will be open to the public from August 21 to November 28.
