To address the urgent need to research, design, and implement solutions to urban challenges, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Center for Advanced Urbanism have announced a new research collaboration that will focus on how design can improve urban health. This research will support AIA’s efforts through the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), Decade of Design. The announcement came at the start of the CGI Winter Meeting.

Ana Miljacki and Lee Moreau (Project_Rorschach 2013) and Brandon CLifford (Matter Design) were selected as two out of four winers of Design Biennial Boston 2013.

DESIGN BIENNIAL BOSTON 2013 @ BSA SPACE
curated by over,under

on View From Feb 21 - May 15, 2013

BSA SPACE: 290 Congress Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02210 | 617-391-4039
http://bsaspace.org/exhibits/design-biennial-boston/

Cristina Parreño Alonso’s Paper Chandeliers was selected to be built for the yearly International Art Fair ARCO Madrid 2013.

CPArchitects -Cristina Parreño and MIT, have teamed up to design the ceiling of the space Fundacion ARCO as a key piece in a research on customized tools in digital fabrication.
http://www.ifema.es/ferias/arco/default_i.html#

Under the Influence symposium brings together scholars and practitioners of architecture in order to focus on one of the most anxious disciplinary topics: influence. The aim of the symposium is to expand our disciplinary tools for thinking appropriation beyond anxiety or ecstasy (that it might indeed induce) by placing issues of individual and collective authorship, of precedent, originality and reproduction, under a magnifying glass.