The 2023 Exhibit Columbus designs have just been revealed, creating much anticipation for the upcoming exhibition. Featuring today’s freshest artists, designers and architects, Exhibit Columbus will open to the public for free on August 25, 2023 and will run through November.
This year’s theme, “Public by Design”, creates meaningful connections between people and the public spaces they share and explores how collaborations between communities and designers can revitalize and reimagine historic downtowns.
Listed by location, here are the 2023 Exhibit Columbus winning designs and their concepts.
Wayfinding and Signage System
“Signals”
Designer: Chris Grimley
This collection will visually direct visitors from site to site, as they explore Exhibit Columbus, “Public by Design,” a free, outdoor public art exhibition.
4th Street and Washington Street
“Interoculus”
Designer: PAU
This canopy structure is inspired by nearby Zaharakos ice cream sundaes and by the wigwams of the Miami and Shawnee people who settled in Indiana. The canopy will feature a ceiling for projected images and an oculus that resembles the circular opening in the North Christian Church’s roof.
Signals
The Commons (sub-head)
“Side Effects”
Designers: Molly Hunker and Greg Corso (Syracuse University)
This project breaks down the boundaries between interior and exterior with two large, brightly colored and patterned shapes installed at The Commons entrance.
Ovation Plaza
“A Carousel for Columbus”
Designers: Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison (University of Illinois)
Supergraphics inspired from the city’s architecture will animate the walls and ground surfaces of this plaza. The centerpiece is a carousel that spins in place and can be used as a performance stage.
Side Effects
A Carousel for Columbus
Cummins Office Building Headquarters
“Ground Rules”
Designers: Jessica Colangelo and Charles Sharpless (University of Arkansas)
This installation floats an elevated playing court and seating under the concrete colonnade of the Cummins Corporate Office Building.
Hotel Indigo
“Pipe Up!”
Designers: Halina Steiner, Tameka Baba, Forbes Lipschitz and Shelby Doyle (The Ohio State University and Iowa State University)
This project makes visible the subterranean water infrastructure using a standing field of 150 charlotte pipes topped by 700 feet of undulating tile drains.
Ground Rules
Pipe Up
Mill Race Park
“Echoes of the Hill”
Designer: Sara Zewde of New York City’s Studio Zewde
Celebrating the large slope of the park, Zewde’s installation features a series of red frames mirroring the hill and encircling an area for activities.
Mill Race Senior Center
“The Plot Project”
Designer: PORT, based in Philadelphia and Chicago
The Senior Center will be enhanced by 12 plot plantings in the dramatic 1.5-acre arc in front of the building.
Echoes of the Hill
The Plot Project
Cummins Parking Garage, West
“Prisma”
Designers: Esteban Garcia Bravo and Maria Clara Morales (Purdue University)
This interactive and immersive light installation uses a rectangular prism as a foundation. Creating an open-air tunnel, visitors will walk through with a free-flowing, animated lighted experience.
Cummins Parking Garage, East
“Machi”
Designers: High School Design Team comprised of eighteen students from Bartholomew County high schools
In Japanese, machi means a busy downtown area. This installation will be constructed of steel tubing and colorful awnings, defining a large space. Various movable pieces will allow visitors to design their own gathering spaces using provided chairs, tables and other objects.
Prisma
Machi
Bartholomew County Public Library
“Recordar”
Designer: Deborah Garcia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Recordar means “to remember” in Latin. This project will use sounds, and even our own voices, to remind us of history, from Modernism to ancient times.
Columbus Area Visitors Center
“Sylvan Scrapple”
Designers: Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann (University of Virginia)
Combining surplus from landscaping projects and construction demolition, this architectural assembly will use curving timber panels and bricks built upon the existing planter wall. The structure will offer a wooded oasis for reading, dining and play.
Recordar
Sylvan Scrapple
Library Plaza
“Designed by the Public”
Designer: Tatiana Bilbao from ESTUDIO of Mexico City
Based on the idea to let the public determine their own way of unwinding and playing, this installation will encourage visitors to use provided objects and their imaginations to build their own purposeful space. The broad scope of objects will include furniture, equipment and other items.
Designed by the Public
Opening August 25, Exhibit Columbus is cool, fun and inspiring. Explore all thirteen installations during the free outdoor exhibition that will run through November.
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