Making Modern: SAIC Graduate Design Exhibition

Showcasing design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO), Making Modern brings together work by recent AIADO graduate students in the department's inaugural master's thesis exhibition.

Included will be special projects featured during Milan's Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April, the highly regarded "Objects for the Age of Obama," "2000 Watt Living," and "The Expanding Classroom," which will be joined by "Objects That Entertain Us," a collaboration with Dupont Corian that will move to Making Modern following the annual NeoCon World's Trade Fair, held in Chicago's nearby Merchandise Mart from June 15-17.

In antiquity, "modernism" meant confronting magic and replacing it with the plough, the sword, the house, and the ship.

For the thesis work presented in Making Modern, to "be modern" means reuniting with eco-scapes, city-scapes, and all the varied "'scapes" of conscience, technology, and mobility.

Making Modern will showcase buildings, objects, and systems where humans are part of the globe's many entwined layers - helping to choreograph this connectivity without the need for dominion.