Final 2013 wma storefront 2

[ Storefront ] Olson Kundig: What if we open a store where everyone is welcome and nothing is for sale?

WMA10 October 2013

olsonkundigarchitects.com

The Frye Art MuseumSeattle, WA

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor CenterSeattle, WA

Noah’s Ark at the Skirball Cultural CenterLos Angeles, CA

1- Can exhibits be more topical, more responsive and more immediate?

2- Can we establish a concept, design an installation, build it, and create public programs in 4 weeks for less that $1000?

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[ Storefront ] Olson Kundig: An experiment in design, culture and social practice

Pioneer Square neighborhood, Seattle WA

Evidence of the Recession

Evidence of the recession

[ Storefront ]

Artist Mary Ann Peters WSU Architecture students

WMA Conference in Portland, I met Sandra Jackson Dumont from the Seattle Art Museum

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“What can we do together that we cannot do separately…?”


“… Record Store …”


Record Store: Will anyone listen…..?

The Process: How we move from concept to built installation in one month

Thursday Crit: beer and ideas

Work Party: Volunteers and donated materials

The Collectors: Bernie Hall and Stephen Ward donated 3000 vinyl records

The Opening: Seattle’s 1st Thursday

The Listening Parties: Curators from all corners of our community

Recreating the ritual of vinyl records

The Listening Stations: Some visitors had never listened to a vinyl record

The Listening Parties: Sometimes it was just a party

Mushroom Farm: Can we grow food in a store? Partnership with CityLab 7

Mushroom Farm: Alex the mushroom farmer

We have 3 coffee shops on our block.

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Mushroom Farm: Work party to build the greenhouse

Mushroom Farm: Community lunchroom

Mushroom Farm: Harvest dinners

Underbelly: Partnership with the Degenerate Art Ensemble

Next 50 Art Grant: Degenerate Art Ensemble & Olson Kundig

SKID ROAD: Who’s working to end homelessness?

PARTNERS: Artist Mary Larson and 12 organizations working to eradicate homelessness

Table Talk: What’s for dinner?

Partners: Michael Hebb and MCDM

Wonderland: What if teen aged girls called the shots?

Partners: The girls from Reel Grrls

I WANT ALL OF THIS, ALL OF THIS I WANT: Merging algorithms and engineering with space.

One in a Million: Global atrocities, mass burial graves, …….and kids?

Partner: One Million Bones and the Bezos Family Foundation

One in a Million: Final installation at National Mall, Washington DC

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Dabblelab: A free school

Dabblelab : Cocktail Mixology

Dabblelab : Bike Maintenance

Dabblelab: Raising Chickens

“There is nothing else like it… in fact, its not even like itself.”

Robin Held Executive director, Reel Grrls

[ storefront ] closes Halloween 2013

[ Itinerant Projects ]: In 2014 we begin

“How often I found where I should be going, only by setting out for somewhere else.”

Buckminster Fuller

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[ Itinerant Projects ] #1: Block Party

Final 2013 wma storefront 2

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