Announcement

We’ve expanded on Re-envisioning Branch Libraries to submit to the Knight News Challenge, “How might we make data work for individuals and communities?“

The Knight Foundation is hosting an open call for for ideas that use data to inform and empower people to make decisions about their lives and their communities, and they are offering grants to the winning submissions. With help from our teammates at METRO, Pratt’s School of Information and Library Science, and Office:MG, we plan to empower librarians to act as data interpreters, curators, and storytellers by extending Data / City tools and training.

Anyone is welcome to provide feedback, be it a comment or a like. We’ll have an opportunity refine our submission based on your ideas and questions. Read about our project here to share your feedback.

Scott has begun his tenure this fall as Chair of The School of Architecture at Georgia Tech.  Find out more information here and here.

On Wednesday, Scott delivered his introductory lecture at the Georgia Tech School of Architecture titled HERE TO THERE, a journey through a cross section of projects by Marble Fairbanks. The projects are new and old, large and small, built and unbuilt. The accompanying video exhibition includes this wide range of projects and explores each at a depth that makes apparent the collapse of architectural research and practice

Our exhibition HERE TO THERE is showing for the next three weeks in Georgia Tech’s Stubbins Gallery. This exhibition is unique for us in two ways. First, it opens an unprecedented window in the behind-the scene processes of the firm, from commuting to construction. Second, this exhibition is itself a collapse of research and production. Preparing an exhibition is no slight undertaking, but within the process it has been an opportunity to explore new forms of communication and speculate about their application to future work.

This week, Karen will be attending Re-think it: Libraries for a New Age in Grand Rapids. Catch her panel discussion with architects Tod Stevens of Stantec and Jefferey Scherer of MSR on designing libraries tomorrow at 8:45AM.

This week, Karen is heading to Knoxville for the AIA Tennessee Convention, TENNESSEEING. She will be speaking on this year’s topic, “seeing,” in her lecture, “SEARCH and Research.” Catch the talk from 8:30-10:30AM on Thursday, July 30th, and in the mean time, check out her interview with AIA Tennessee.