Exhibitions

FutureShack

September 2012 | Gallery4Culture

Seattle, WA
The Next 50 Years
of Residential Design

September 6 – 28, 2012
Opening: First Thursday, Sept 6, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

During the month of September, Gallery4Culture, in tandem with the 2012 Seattle Design Festival, hosts a curated exhibition celebrating the role of design in public life. FutureShack: The Next 50 Years of Residential Design presents special projects by architects from ten AIA Seattle firms as well as select works from the University of Washington’s Masters in Architecture program.

Their undertakings examine big questions: Can architects and designers offer solutions to make our lives and our cities better? What can be learned from what other cities and countries have done? FutureShack illuminates emerging design thinking and experimentation while challenging mainstream assumptions of what housing looks like, how it performs and what it might cost. The gallery installation reimagines residential communities for decades to come.

FutureShack participant’s push the boundaries of how humans – forced to accommodate changes in demographics, the environment and economy – could, over time, radically restructure how they live. The exhibition and accompanying text weave together themes of economy, repurposing, size, adaptability and density.


About the Artist

Design in Public created the inaugural Seattle Design Festival in September of 2011 to offer the public an opportunity to better understand design and how it adds value our lives, our city, and our region. The 2011 Festival was a collaboration among ten nonprofit partners that created an ambitious set of offerings, all aimed at a public audience. The 2012 Festival promises to be every bit as good.