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DIFFERENT TOMORROWS IS HAVING A THIRD SERIES OF ASSEMBLINGS. DETAILS SOON!!!
DIFFERENT
TOMORROWS:
DESIGN FUTURES BEYOND THE BAUHAUS
In this 100th+1 year anniversary of the Bauhaus, design communities around the world are surrounded by events seeking to further/re
solidify the school’s Impact and influence on Design in the 21st Century. In contrast, Different
Tomorrows: Design Futures Beyond the Bauhaus seeks to complicate the default narratives canonized within the disciplines of design and instead, decenter the Bauhaus as the movement of record. Seeing it as one of many discourses across the globe, envisioning practices of design whose politics, aesthetics, ideologies and cultures
critically engage with questions of race, gender, access and worldview.
Different Tomorrows
Exhibition Designing Futures Beyond the Bauhaus—Art Center College of Design
DIFFERENT
TOMORROWS:
BEYOND
WHITENESS
an assembling of writers, artists, designers and activists exploring
ethnofuturisms (afro, chicanix, indigenous) and the ultra unreal.
The ongoing series of events includes screenings, listenings, discussions, workshops, symposium and an ongoing series of projects lead by Elizabeth Chin & Sean Donahue— exploring forms of futurity whose politics, aesthetics, ideologies and cultures are black, brown and yellow.
Different Tomorrows repositions design discourse beyond the eurocentric,
techo-determinist normalities of the past / present / future distinctions and instead looks at time refracted through prisms of race, gender and inequality.
ASSEMBLINGS
Elizabeth & Sean Present Different
Tomorrows at SXSW '18
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Different Tomorrows
Exhibition Designing Futures Beyond Whiteness—Art Center College of Design
Different Tomorrows
Symposium Designing Futures Beyond Whiteness —Art Center College of Design
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PROGRAM
DIFFERENT TOMORROWS
DESIGN FUTURES
BEYOND THE BAUHAUS
10/01/19 - 10/5/19
DIFFERENT TOMORROWS: DESIGN FUTURES BEYOND THE BAUHAUS
A READING ROOM ASSEMBLING // WINDTUNNEL GALLERY
ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
READING ROOM
A selection of 100 texts/projects in this 100th year that complicate
the default narratives of the Bauhaus legacy and beyond.
OPEN DAILY 10:00AM - 4:00PM
GRADUATE CENTER FOR CRITICAL PRACTICE
WIND TUNNEL GALLERY
ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
950 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA
10/01/19 // TUESDAY // 10:00AM
Bauhaus Beginnings
Docent Tour // Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA USA
An exclusive tour of the GETTY CENTER BAUHAUS Archives
http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/bauhaus/beginnings/index.html
Due to the delicate and archival nature of the materials, participation is limited.
Due to overwhelming interest we have reached our maximum number of participants,
Registration is now closed.
10/02/19 // WEDNESDAY // 5:00PM - 8:00PM
DIFFERENT
TOMORROWS:
DESIGN FUTURES
BEYONG THE
BAUHAUS
Reception & Symposium
AN ASSEMBLING //
GRADUATE CENTER FOR CRITICAL PRACTICE
WIND TUNNEL GALLERY,
ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
950 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA
4:00 - Reading Room Walk-through
5:00 - Opening Remarks
5:30 - Elizabeth Otto
6:00 - Leah Haiso
6:30 - Raquel Franklin
7:00 - Discussion // Q&A
7:30 - Closing Remarks
GUEST PRESENTERS:
Dr. Elizabeth Otto
Elizabeth will join us via video conferencing technology
Associate Professor, Modern & Contemporary Art History, The University at Buffalo (SUNY)
2019-2020 Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC
Recent & Forthcoming Books
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective, Bloomsbury
Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics, MIT Press.
"In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school's engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories."
Dr. Leah Hsiao
Leah will join us via video conferencing technology
Lecturer, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China
Researcher, Bauhaus Lab: Global Modernism Studies at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Co-Author
The Bauhaus and China: Present, Past, and Future
"...the Bauhaus is predominantly seen through the lens of its subsequent transpositions to new cultural contexts, here specifically the United States. It is no longer fixed in early twentieth-century Germany but perceived as a mobile resource that can be mined to “extract” whatever might be useful. Whatever its original utopian dimensions, the Bauhaus “revolution” is judged to be safe enough to work quietly and pragmatically under the surface of urbanization and modernization without destabilizing the social structure...”
Dr. Raquel Franklin
Raquel will join us in person
Head of Theory of Architecture Department, Universidad Anáhuac México
Founding Member, Mexican Chapter of DOCOMOMO
Former Fellow, Kulturstiftung des Bundes at the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Author
Of Art and Politics: Hannes Meyer and the Taller de Gráfica Popular
"The Mexico of President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (1934–40) was a fertile ground for the development of ideological questions, especially those originating from the left. The expropriation of oil fields, mining and large estates in 1938, the refuge granted Spanish republicans and members of the International Brigades in 1939, and the accord of mutual support between the government and syndicalist organizations all favored the formation of artistic and cultural groups willing to take part in the consolidation of revolutionary ideals which, until that point, had made little progress. Among these organizations was the Taller de Gráfica Popular, the Workshop of Popular Graphics."
10/3/19 // THURSDAY // 4:30PM - 5:30PM
A READING // WINDTUNNEL GALLERY
ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
a READING ROOM reading
A curated reading of selections from the Reading Room
read by guests followed by discussion
GRADUATE CENTER FOR CRITICAL PRACTICE,
WIND TUNNEL GALLERY,
ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
950 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA
10/4/19 // FRIDAY // 4:30PM - 5:30PM
MEDIA ASSEMBLING // WINDTUNNEL GALLERY, ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
Screening projects and works frequently excluded from the Bauhaus Design History Canon
followed by discussion
PROGRAM
DIFFERENT TOMORROWS
DESIGNING FUTURES
BEYOND WHITENESS
11/01/17 - 12/01/17
GRAPHIC DISCOURSES PUBLICATION EXHIBIT // JAMES LEMONT FOGG LIBRARY, ACCD
Including works from:
Octavia E. Butler, Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Eugene, Paul Louise Julie, Ernest Hogan, Andre Human, Loyiso Mkize, Damien Scott, Ytasha Womack
11/5/17 // SUNDAY //
DIFFERENT TOMORROWS: SHOW OPENING // WINDTUNNEL GALLERY, ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
11/9/17 // THURSDAY // 6:00PM - 8:00PM
DESIGN DIALOGUES // WINDTUNNEL GALLERY, ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
GUEST PRESENTER:
Naima Keith
Deputy Director, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
11/13/17 // MONDAY // 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Octavia E. Butler Archive:
Docent Tour // HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, Pasadena, CA
An exclusive tour of the Octavia E. Butler Archives
http://www.huntington.org/octaviabutler/
Due to the delicate and archival nature of the materials, participation is limited.
Pre-registration is required to be considered for participation.
REGISTRATION FULL!!!
Thank you everyone for such an enthusiastic turn out!
11/14/17 // TUESDAY // 3:00PM - 6:00PM
MEDIA ASSEMBLING // WINDTUNNEL GALLERY, ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
Screening works from:
Wanuri Kahiu, Larissa Sansour, Jonathan Dotse & Kabiru Seidu, Simon Rittmeier, Andrew Kaggia, Saya Woolfalk and Rachel Lears,
Parliament Funkadelic, Sun Ra and Alex Rivera
11/15/17 // WEDNESDAY // 3:00PM - 6:00PM
MEDIA ASSEMBLING // WINDTUNNEL GALLERY, ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
Listening works from:
DJ Oyinboy & Emma Dabiri, Moor Mother, Drexciya, Deltron 3030, Rammellzee, Chimurenga, Black Earth Ensemble
11/16/17 // THURSDAY // 5:00PM - 9:00PM
DIFFERENT
TOMORROWS:
BEYOND WHITENESS
Reception & Symposium
AN ASSEMBLING //
WIND TUNNEL GALLERY,
ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus
950 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA
5:00 - Gallery Walk-through
6:00 - Opening Remarks
6:30 - John Jennings
7:00 - Catherine Ramírez
7:30 - Rasheedah Phillips
8:00 - Discussion // Q&A
8:30 - Closing Remarks
+ - Afro-Futurist DJ Set
GUEST PRESENTERS:
John Jennings
Cartoonist, Designer and Graphic Novelist
http://creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/Jennings/index.html
Catherine Ramírez
Author, Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin
Director, Chicano Latino Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz
catherinesramirez.sites.ucsc.edu
Rasheedah Phillips
Black Quantum Futurism & Community Futures Lab
blackquantumfuturism.tumblr.com
ABOUT
Different Tomorrows: Beyond Whiteness is part of an ongoing research platform organized and lead by Elizabeth Chin & Sean Donahue both faculty in the Graduate Media Design Practices Program at ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles, CA, USA. The project situates itself in sites across the globe to develop new platforms for design practice that recognize and challenge the politics of power and inequality that are materialized in design aesthetics, practices, pedagogies and systems.
CONTACT
Sean Donahue
sdonahue@artcenter.edu
Elizabeth Chin
e.chin@artcenter.edu
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