Sustainable Shelter: Dwelling Within the Forces of Nature
January 18 to April 5, 2015
Sustainable Shelter: Dwelling Within the Forces of Nature discusses the techniques through which animals and humans have adapted to differing environments through an amazing diversity of structures. The exhibition investigates the ways that human dwellings extract, use, and discard energy, water and other precious natural resources and reveals innovative new design solutions that can help restore the health and viability of Earth's natural environment.
Sustainable Shelters is organized by the Bell Museum of Natural History.
Designing Healthy Communities: Active Design and Its Impact
April 26 to July 19, 2015
The design of the physical environments in which humans live, work and play greatly impacts health and wellbeing. Too often however, design supports unhealthy rather than healthy habits and practices. Architects, interior designers and urban planners are responding to this problem with active design, an approach to the development of buildings, streets and neighborhoods that makes daily physical activity and healthy foods more accessible and inviting. Designing Healthy Communities will explore the specific active design strategies that are used to promote physical activity and healthy living. The exhibition will highlight real-world examples of these strategies in use through case studies, videos, models and interactive activities.
Designing Healthy Communities is an original exhibition organized by the Museum of Design Atlanta.
August 2 to November 1, 2015
3D printing technology and the open source communities surrounding it are rapidly changing the world by making the powerful, new tools of design and manufacturing available to a much wider audience. This accessibility ultimately allows each one of us to design customized solutions to the complex problems around us. 3D Printing the Future will explore projects, both large and small, in which 3D printing technology is being used in innovative ways. From fabricating lighter components for airplanes to designing custom prosthetics, this exhibition will explore the exciting designs made possible by 3D printing and the many questions that these technological advances will raise for our future.
3D Printing the Future is an original exhibition organized by the Museum of Design Atlanta.
Make-Believe America
November 15, 2015 to February 14, 2016
During the mid-20th century, the U.S. government sought the assistance of some of the country's leading designers to create international, cultural exhibitions, most notably the World's Fairs. These exhibitions were created as government propaganda, which demonstrated the attractiveness and superiority of the American way of life with the ultimate goal of containing and even diminishing the threat of communism. Make-Believe America explores the height of U.S. cultural exhibitions (1955-1975) and demonstrates the ways in which design was used as a persuasive force. The exhibition will provide examples of work created by brilliant exhibition teams that included designers such as Herbert Bayer, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and R. Buckminster Fuller.
Make-Believe America is an original exhibition curated by Andrew J. Wulf, Ph.D. Curator of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
About Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA)
Celebrating 25 years in 2014 and located within the Midtown Arts Corridor since March 2011, MODA is the only museum in the Southeast devoted exclusively to the study and celebration of all things design. MODA advances the understanding and appreciation of design as the convergence of creativity and functionality through exhibitions, education and programming for visitors of all ages. MODA’s vision is of a world that celebrates design as a creative force that inspires change, transforms lives and makes the world a better place. MODA regularly features exhibitions of architecture, industrial and product design, interiors and furniture, graphics, fashion, and more. For more information, visit: www.museumofdesign.org or call 404-979-6455.
Museum Hours at 1315 Peachtree Street are:
Monday Closed
Tuesday 12-6pm
Wednesday 12-6pm
Thursday 12-8pm
Friday 12-6pm
Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 12-6pm