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The MILLER GALLERY is Carnegie Mellon University's contemporary art gallery.

The Miller Gallery supports experimentation that expands the notions of art and culture, providing a forum for engaged conversations about creativity and innovation. The gallery produces exhibitions, projects, events and publications with a focus on social issues. Learn more.

OPENING THIS FRIDAY
Imperfect Health
The Medicalization of Architecture
Organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

On view Sept. 15, 2012 - Feb. 24, 2013


We observe — and suffer daily from — the unforeseen consequences of our actions on the environment. We are anxious about ground pollution, food safety, pollen allergies, smog, asthma, cancer, obesity, epidemics, and ultimately, aging. Now that everything is perceived as a possible source of disease, the health, defense and fortification of our own bodies have become obsessive pursuits. We have begun to think of all aspects of our lives in medical terms.

Architecture, urban design, and landscape design are addressing these fears, incorporating medical issues and related concerns in their projects. Their new ideas and solutions are based on the optimistic premise that design has the capacity to deliver individual and collective well-being. Projects propose allergy-free gardens, more trees, cleaner air, soil remediation, and new quarantine spaces to prevent epidemic outbreaks. On the other hand, in addressing health issues, design also introduces new levels of complexity in projects that test industrial methods for food production, stairs that re-educate the obese and infirm, and the segregation of communities by age.

Imperfect Health is not a comprehensive survey of the relationships between health, architecture, cities and the environment. On the contrary, these projects for buildings, interiors, and open spaces are meant to highlight uncertainties and contradictions present in the ideas of health that are emerging in Western countries today, particularly in Europe and North America.

We are exposed to a lot of solutions, but at what cost?
Is the future of architecture in its medicalization?

- Giovanna Borasi + Mirko Zardini, Curators


Learn more about Imperfect Health.

Support for Imperfect Health at Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery is provided in part by The Heinz Endowments.

IMPERFECT HEALTH
Related Events
All events are located at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), free of charge,
+ open to the public, unless otherwise indicated.


Sept. 20, Thurs.
1-5pm: Flu Vaccine Clinic
Provided by the University Health Services for the CMU community
Free for CMU students on the student insurance plan, staff and faculty; $17 for spouses/partners and students on other plans.
@ Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts, CMU

Sept. 21, Fri.
6:30-7:30pm: A Conversation with Photographer
Iwan Baan
Presented by the Heinz Architectural Center
@ Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 4400 Forbes Ave.
Baan's photographs are on view in both Miller Gallery's Imperfect Health and Heinz Architectural Center's White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes exhibitions. Followed by a reception, with HAC galleries open until 9pm.

Sept. 26, Wed.
4-6pm: Presentation: Air quality, regional pollution exposure, & the Marcellus Shale by Albert Presto from the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies
Presented by Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research + University Health Services
@ Outside of Miller Gallery entrance, Purnell Center for the Arts, CMU

Oct. 8, Mon.
4:30pm: Lecture: Re-thinking water quality, policy, and health — an elemental approach by Kartik Chandran (Director, Biomolecular Environmental Sciences + Wastewater Treatment and Climate Change Programs, Columbia University)
Co-presented by the Distinguished Lecture Series in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy, and the University Lecture Series
@ Porter Hall #100 (on Frew St.), CMU

Oct. 16, Tues.
4:30pm: Panel Discussion: Health, Habitat, and History with Caroline Jean Acker, Jay Aronson, Zachary Falck, Andrea R. Fox, Andrew Simpson, Joel A. Tarr and Lisa Tetrault
Presented by the Department of History
@ Rangos Room 2, University Center 2nd floor, CMU

Feb. 21, Thurs.
9:30am: Lecture: We are what we eat... and what we build: Designing Healthy Communities by Richard J Jackson MD, MPH (Environmental Health Sciences, Urban Planning, Pediatrics, UCLA)
Presented by the University Lecture Series
@ Magee-Womens Hospital Auditorium, 300 Halket Street. Zero level.

Feb. 22, Fri.
6:30-8:30pm: Film Screening: Danube Hospital
(Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Germany, 2012)
Presented by the Carnegie Mellon Faces International Film Festival
$5 Seniors + Students, $8 Others.
@ McConomy Auditorium, University Center, CMU


See event details. More to be announced online.

GALLERY STORE
Featured Item


IMPERFECT HEALTH
Edited by Giovanna Borasi + Mirko Zardini.
Essays by Borasi, Margaret Campbell, Nan Ellin, David Gissen, Carla C. Keirns, Linda Pollak, Hilary Sample, Sarah Schrank, Deane Simpson, and Zardini. Published by the CCA and Lars Műller Publishers.

Imperfect Health takes a critical look at how architects and planners are responding to growing urban health concerns and points to sometimes unforeseen consequences of their built interventions. The book tackles this contemporary issue from a historical and critical perspective, focusing on different themes: epidemics and urban defense systems; architecture combating pollution; environmental and urban challenges, obesity and design strategies; Modernism and tuberculosis; sunbathing and suburbia; aging today and indoor life and toxic materials.

Read an excerpt. Purchase the book.

INDEPENDENT VISION CURATORIAL AWARD
Gallery Director Suparak Nominated


"If you're betting on who will make up the next set of influential international curators, this list could make you rich. Today the New York-based non-profit Independent Curators International announces the nominees for this year's Independent Vision Curatorial Award, a prize bestowed on emerging figures in the field by their more established colleagues. ARTINFO got an early look, and here's what to expect.

The second annual prize's 15 nominees include independent curators and major museum staffers working in a dozen different countries. And they've been vetted by some of the biggest names in contemporary art, including Performa founder RoseLee Goldberg, White Columns director Matthew Higgs, Documenta's Chus Martinez, MIT List Visual Arts Center curator João Ribas, LACMA's chief curator of contemporary art Franklin Sirmans, and Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector." - ARTINFO

Read the article + view a slideshow.