Your week in design events from DnA.
1. Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change
DnA’s Frances Anderton curated Sink Or Swim: Designing For A Sea Change a photography exhibition that looks at “resilient” design in coastal communities, rich and poor, around the world, in a time of increasing vulnerability to intense storms and rising seas — as viewed through the lens of powerful photographers including Iwan Baan, Paula Bronstein, Stephen Wilkes, Jonas Bendiksen and LA’s Monica Nouwens. Designs range from adaptation for survival to ambitious — and sometimes controversial — infrastructure planning (such as Japan’s controversial sea walls photographed by Paula Bronstein, above) to yielding built land back to nature. Also included, a display of visionary plans for the future, researched by architectural critic Guy Horton, and including top entries in HUD’s post-Sandy Rebuild By Design competition. CMg designed the exhibition.
When: December 13-May 3, 2015
Where: Annenberg Space for Photography
Tickets: Free and open to the public.
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2. Renegade Craft Fair + Anti-Mall
“Give the gift of handmade this holiday season and support local small businesses” beckons the Renegade Craft Fair, which holds its LA mart in downtown this weekend. The fair features crafts from local designers and makers, food trucks and a free photo booth.
When: December 13+14
Where: Grand Park; 200 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles
Tickets: Free and open to the public.
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The AntiMall:People B4 Profit goes even further with its advocacy, saying “Our mission is to change the way we view consumerism in a hyper-consuming society.” At this craft fair you’ll also be able to purchase gifts made from local “artivists” and socially-conscious businesses, as well as see some of the proceeds donated to causes dear to the community.
When: December 14; 11AM — 5PM
Where: Danza Floricante; 4232 Whiteside Street, LA 90063
Tickets: Free and open to the public.
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3. Worn Stories
What would your clothes say if they could talk? That’s the subject of a Worn Stories, a collection of short personal stories about clothing and memory, edited by Emily Spivack since 2010, and just published in book form by Princeton Architectural Press in Fall 2014. Join her for the LA book launch this Tuesday co-presented by Hennessey + Ingalls and Space 15 Twenty, featuring guests Jonathan Levine (who writes in the book about “the time that I bought Spree’s number 8 Knicks jersey in the away blue and orange”), Susan Orlean and Becky Stark.
When: December 9, 2014; 7 – 9PM
Where: Space 15 Twenty, 1520 N. Cahuenga Boulevard
Tickets: Free and open to the public.
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4. Massing the Void
Reform Gallery exhibits the work of sculptor/craftsman Morgan MacLean, a former architectural model maker for Frank O. Gehry, who, according to the Los Angeles, learned there “how to turn a wad of paper into a replica of a building” and now lives and works in Highland Park, where he devotes “months to chiseling, filing, sanding and waxing a single block of mahogany into an exact scale model of a crumpled paper bag. In his latest show, “Urban Remnants,” at Reform Gallery in Los Angeles, MacLean presents himself as an archaeological craftsman.”
When: Through January 31st
Where: Reform Gallery
Tickets: Free and open to the public.
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5. Petrochemical America: Project Room
An exhibit at the Pomona College Museum of Art explores “the industrialized landscape of the Mississippi River Corridor that stretches from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.”
When: Runs until December 19, 2014
Where: Pomona College Museum of Art
Tickets: Free and open to the public.