Exhibition design for our time translations

We are very excited to announce that the ‘Exhibition Design for our time’ guide developed by URGE in collaboration with The Design Museum, is now available in all 6 UN official languages: Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish thanks to Culture Connect Ltd and in Arabic thanks to our collaboration with Art Jameel.

The guide focuses on how to plan and create exhibitions with a low environmental impact, for designers and museums. It examines the opportunities for museums to reduce their carbon footprint across the exhibition life cycle, including how to embed environmental principles into the design process and work with commissioned designers, contractors and suppliers.

The Design Museum has been leading the way in adopting greener museum practices and this guide is part of that legacy. URGE contributed to the guide translation project with the hope to maximise the positive impact of the lessons learned and outcomes of the ‘Waste Age’ exhibition and to support the ‘green transformation’ of the museum sector on a global scale. 

We hope you'll enjoy the guide and find the Impact Model - Exhibition Carbon Assessment Tool useful to adapt your own practice.

You can read further on how the Design Museum is learning to cut the environmental cost of its exhibitions in response to the planetary emergency, here in Working to make change.

MENAT Exhibition design Online Demo session with Art Jameel

On 23 May join URGE’s Alexie Sommer and Paul Zhu in an online demo session, hosted by Art Jameel, to delve into the MENAT adaptation of  Exhibition design for our time – A guide to reducing the environmental impact of exhibitions for the MENAT region.

The aim of this session is to provide cultural practitioners and platforms with insights on how to effectively utilise these regionally-adapted resources. Participants will gain valuable insights into sustainable exhibition design practices and tools to measure and mitigate their carbon footprint in the MENAT region. 

Temple Galaxia by Mamou Mani Architects

Bio-Spaces: Regenerative, Resilient Futures

An experiential, multi-sensory exhibition, aimed at encouraging a more nature-based approach to design.

At the Roca London Gallery until 30th September.

Exploration Architect's work is part of this new exhibition curated by environmentally-focused media and events platform Planted, in collaboration with Oliver Heath Design Studio, Bio-Spaces immerses you into the world of biophilic design, exploring biodiversity and biomimicry through a series of modular islands, each exploring a theme pertinent to the concept of nature-informed design.

Roca London Gallery Station Court, Townmead Rd, London SW6 2PY.

Architecture and Climate Change 20 Interviews on the Future of Building

Architecture and construction are at a turning point. They account for more than 40% of global CO2 emissions. Rising temperatures can only be reduced if there is a radical change in the field of construction throughout the world.

Michael Pawlyn is one of the 20 contributors to this new book, giving his say on the future of construction. When will our cities become climate-neutral? Where will the energy of tomorrow come from? How can we reduce CO2 emissions? What are the urban-mine operations of tomorrow like?

Further voices are shared from Mexico to Kenya – from Bangladesh to Switzerland. In the interviews experts give an account of their own experiences with climate-friendly construction as well as regional problems posed by rising CO2 emissions.

And lastly, the latest Flourish Systems Change podcast by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn is now available. In this episode, co-host Sarah Ichioka interviews Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer Dr Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June).

She is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Listen here.

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