{"id":989,"date":"2015-10-09T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/?post_type=events&#038;p=989"},"modified":"2015-10-09T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T15:16:03","slug":"aiado-alumni-weekend-event-tour-reception","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/events\/aiado-alumni-weekend-event-tour-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"AIADO Alumni Weekend Event: Tour, Reception, and Procession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAIC Alumni are invited to attend exhibitions and receptions along with current faculty, students, and colleagues during\u00a0the weekend of\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 18th to 20th<\/span><\/span>. AIADO&#8217;s Alumni events on that <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday, September 19<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0seek to provoke conversations about\u00a0the future, of design and education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Exhibition Tour of <em>Outside Design<\/em><br \/>\n<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">4:30\u20135:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b>Sullivan Galleries<br \/>\n33 S. State Street, 7th Floor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Take an in-depth tour of <em>Outside Design<\/em>\u00a0with<b> Jonathan Solomon<\/b>, curator and\u00a0Director of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects at SAIC.<\/p>\n<p><em>Outside Design<\/em>\u00a0is a collateral and collaborative event of the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, which explores the turn in art and design towards biotechnology and ecological systems. The show will bring together five practices \u2014 <b>Analog Media Lab\u00a0<\/b>(Urbana-Champaign), <b>Ants of the Prairie<\/b> (Buffalo), <b>The Living<\/b> (New York),\u00a0<b>Species of Space<\/b> (Chicago), and <b>Sweet Water Foundation<\/b> (Chicago) \u2014 organized as a series of laboratories installed across the galleries, engaged throughout the fall by students, faculty, and visiting artists and designers. This mode of collaborative experimentation and exchange will continuously transform the gallery space, resulting in new projects and installations and pushing the boundaries of disciplinarily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Design Night\u00a0Alumni Reception<br \/>\n<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">5:30\u20136:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b>33 S. State Street, 7th Floor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This reception is an opportunity to learn about the growing role of design at SAIC, and to share thoughts on the future of design education. It will\u00a0include remarks from the Director of the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects and from the three Alumni Chairs of the event:\u00a0<b>Brian Bailey<\/b>\u00a0(MDes 2012);\u00a0<b>Zurich Esposito<\/b>\u00a0(MSHP 1995); and\u00a0<b>Deidre Jordan<\/b>\u00a0(MFA 1992).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Procession: Decentering Design<br \/>\n<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><b>33 S. State Street, 7th Floor<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Immediately following the reception, 2015-16 Mitchell Visiting Professor <b>Eric Ellingsen<\/b> will lead a walk as part of his practice in decentering design, taking us from the gallery to the school-wide SAIC Alumni Block Party at\u00a0609 S. State Street (<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7PM-10PM<\/span><\/span>; a showcase of alumni music, food, beverages, and activations!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":363,"template":"","class_list":["post-989","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/989\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/outsidedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}