Stephanie Smith: Workshop+Lecture
29 Chains to the Moon| Host: | |
| Type: | |
| Network: | Global |
| Date: | Thursday, October 8, 2009 |
| Time: | 3:00pm - 6:30pm |
| Location: | Miller Gallery, PCA + Kresge Theatre, CFA, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Street: | 5000 Forbes Ave. across from Morewood Ave |
| City/Town: | Pittsburgh, PA |
Description
29 CHAINS TO THE MOON
Artists' Schemes for a Fantastic Future
Guest curated by Andrea Grover
Organized by Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
Aug. 28 - Dec. 6, 2009
Oct. 8, Thurs.
3pm:
Workshop with Stephanie Smith @ Miller Gallery. No reservations required. Free.
5pm:
School of Art Lecture Series: Stephanie Smith
@ Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University. Free.
WORKSHOP WITH STEPHANIE SMITH:
"It's All Free Because It's Yours" (The Diggers, 1969)
This workshop will explore the idea of “free”. Our current economic system was designed hundreds of years ago and may no longer meet our needs today. Can we develop new ways to exchange value? What if goods and services were free? What physical, cultural and societal infrastructures would we need to accomplish this?
We will use as inspiration the work of the sixties counterculture activist group ‘The Diggers’, and also the original ‘Diggers’ (active in the UK in the 1600s) who inspired them. We’ll also reference the seminal book by E.F. Schumacher ‘Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered’.
The Commons(Commune) kiosk constructed in the gallery will offer a starting point for a discussion on “free” infrastructure in public spaces. We’ll also brainstorm other ideas to create zones of “free”-dom in culture, society, and in our daily lives.
ABOUT STEPHANIE SMITH:
Stephanie Smith’s projects span the worlds of architecture, art, technology, and culture. Her research into the social practices of fringe and nomadic societies yielded a movement she calls Wanna Start a Commune?, and include diagrams for creating modern Cul-de-Sac Communes, portable kiosks for non-monetary exchange and meet-ups, and most recently an online platform for creating as many communes as your life demands, WeCommune (www.wecommune.com). Smith says that the impetus for these projects was to counter the assumption that being green means consuming green products; instead she wanted to revive the best parts of the commune concept (a community where resources are shared) and “bring collective attitude to places where it doesn't yet exist.” Smith is also the founder of Ecoshack, a design experiment that began in Joshua Tree, CA and is now an LA-based design studio inspired by the ad hoc, indigenous and archetypal typologies typically found at the fringes of society and culture. In 2008, the Whitney Museum identified Smith as the designer/entrepreneur most actively taking the ideas of Buckminster Fuller into the 21st century. http://www.stephaniesmithsofar.wordpress.com
More about the exhibition and gallery: http://www.cmu.edu/millergallery/exhibition/29chainstothemoon
Artists' Schemes for a Fantastic Future
Guest curated by Andrea Grover
Organized by Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
Aug. 28 - Dec. 6, 2009
Oct. 8, Thurs.
3pm:
Workshop with Stephanie Smith @ Miller Gallery. No reservations required. Free.
5pm:
School of Art Lecture Series: Stephanie Smith
@ Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University. Free.
WORKSHOP WITH STEPHANIE SMITH:
"It's All Free Because It's Yours" (The Diggers, 1969)
This workshop will explore the idea of “free”. Our current economic system was designed hundreds of years ago and may no longer meet our needs today. Can we develop new ways to exchange value? What if goods and services were free? What physical, cultural and societal infrastructures would we need to accomplish this?
We will use as inspiration the work of the sixties counterculture activist group ‘The Diggers’, and also the original ‘Diggers’ (active in the UK in the 1600s) who inspired them. We’ll also reference the seminal book by E.F. Schumacher ‘Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered’.
The Commons(Commune) kiosk constructed in the gallery will offer a starting point for a discussion on “free” infrastructure in public spaces. We’ll also brainstorm other ideas to create zones of “free”-dom in culture, society, and in our daily lives.
ABOUT STEPHANIE SMITH:
Stephanie Smith’s projects span the worlds of architecture, art, technology, and culture. Her research into the social practices of fringe and nomadic societies yielded a movement she calls Wanna Start a Commune?, and include diagrams for creating modern Cul-de-Sac Communes, portable kiosks for non-monetary exchange and meet-ups, and most recently an online platform for creating as many communes as your life demands, WeCommune (www.wecommune.com). Smith says that the impetus for these projects was to counter the assumption that being green means consuming green products; instead she wanted to revive the best parts of the commune concept (a community where resources are shared) and “bring collective attitude to places where it doesn't yet exist.” Smith is also the founder of Ecoshack, a design experiment that began in Joshua Tree, CA and is now an LA-based design studio inspired by the ad hoc, indigenous and archetypal typologies typically found at the fringes of society and culture. In 2008, the Whitney Museum identified Smith as the designer/entrepreneur most actively taking the ideas of Buckminster Fuller into the 21st century. http://www.stephaniesmithsofar.wordpress.com
More about the exhibition and gallery: http://www.cmu.edu/millergallery/exhibition/29chainstothemoon
Other Information
- Guests who are not attending are hidden on the guest list.
- Guests are allowed to bring friends to this event.
Event Type
This is an open event. Anyone can join and invite others to join.
Admins
- Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon (creator)