BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11118@cranbrookartmuseum.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240320T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240320T193000 DTSTAMP:20240312T164440Z URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/lot-ek-we-start-with-the-things- we-find/ SUMMARY:We Start With the Things We Find DESCRIPTION:Join Cranbrook Art Museum and University of Detroit Mercy Schoo l of Architecture &\; Community Development for a screening of We Start With the Things We Find a film by Tom Piper featuring Ada Tolla and Guise ppe Lignano of LOT-EK\, a New York City based architecture studio. Followi ng the screening Tolla\, Lignano\, and Piper with be joined in conversatio n by Kimberly Dokes\, Dokes Design Architecture\, and Andrew Blauvelt\, Di rector of Cranbrook Art Museum\, the conversation will be moderated by Ta dd Heidgerken (CAA M.ARCH '08)\, Associate Professor of Architecture and C ommunity Development\, University of Detroit Mercy.\n\nIf we pay enough at tention to the ordinary\, we see the extraordinary. The shipping container is an accidental icon of our modern age: the eight-foot-by-forty-foot cor rugated steel box that brings the world to our doorstep. It brings all our hearts’ desires’\, available for purchase. And it brings us complicit y in the global supply chains\, and all the economic\, ecological\, techno logical\, and political systems that forge those chains\, as those great c ontainer ships link maker and user\, buyer and seller\, China and America together cross the vast distances of the lawless sea. The design studio LO T-EK is a visionary practice at the intersection of art and architecture\, that specializes in upcycling\, which is the art and science of repurposi ng\, remaking\, rethinking\, reimagining. Of using old things in new ways. The shipping container is the thing that has captured their imagination f or over a quarter-century: they have remade containers into homes\, school s\, galleries\, libraries\, and more. With hundreds of millions of obsolet e and unused containers around the world\, this is a new and necessary arc hitecture of the future\, that repairs and regenerates the unnatural envir onment that we have inherited from the past.  \n\nWE START WITH THE THING S WE FIND is a feature-length documentary of this vision\, and of the soul ful lifelong partnership of the people\, designers Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano\, behind it.  \n\nWE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND shows us a wa y to be radically optimistic\, creative\, and construc-tive during times t hat can feel the opposite of all that. Director Thomas Piper’s acclaimed documentary feature Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf showed how w ild and unfavored plants could encourage audiences to live more responsibl y with nature\, and now he looks at living more smartly and sweetly with t he effects of industry\, infrastructure\, and technology. Taking us from s park-filled workshops to a container ship sea voyage over a shimmering sea \; and explaining all the prosaic and poetic design thinking behind how LO T-EK brings the container to life\, the film shows how all we have can bec ome all we need\, how resourceful subsistence can feel like beautiful abun dance\, and how to keep going when we now know there is no such thing as a fresh start. The film is a humanist essay not only about a new kind of de sign thinking\, but about a new design for life. \n\nFilmmaker Thomas Pip er is an award-winning filmmaker specialized in documenting contemporary a rtists and designers. He has directed\, photographed and/or edited more th an 25 films on painters\, sculptors\, photographers\, architects\, and wri ters. His most recent film\, Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf\, wo n the 2018 Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film from the DC Environmen tal Film Festival\, and was in global theatrical release through the pande mic. His film\, Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments\, won Best Film for Television at the 2008 International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal. As an independent producer\, he was commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum to make Art\, Architecture\, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museu m\, a documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright m useum building. His feature length documentary\, Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line\, was broadcast on PBS affil iates around the country\, and accepted for over 25 festivals around the w orld. Other subjects have included the artists Julie Mehretu\, Sol Lewitt\ , Kiki Smith\, Alex Katz and Vija Celmins\, the writer James Salter\, the art historian Vincent Scully\, the architects Peter Eisenman\, Steven Holl \, Jean Nouvel and Thom Mayne\, and MacArthur “genius” grant winner\, Jeanne Gang. \n\nLOT-EK are Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. They have Mas ters Degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from the Universita’ di Na poli\, Italy (1989). After graduating they completed post-graduate studies at Columbia University\, New York (1990-1991) as Visiting Scholars. They founded LOT-EK in Naples\, Italy in 1993 and opened up LOT-EK’s New York studio in 1995. Besides heading their professional practice\, they also t each at Columbia University\, Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning a nd Preservation in New York\, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno logy’s School of Architecture and Planning in Cambridge\, MA. \n\nLOT-E K is an award-winning architectural design studio renowned in the architec ture/design/art world for its sustainable and innovative approach to const ruction\, materials and space through the upcycling of existing industrial objects and systems. Their work has been exhibited in major museums\, inc luding MoMA\, the Whitney Museum\, the Walker Art Center\, the Guggenheim and the MAXXI.\n\n \;\n\n[gravityform id="74" title="true"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/wp-content/upload s/2024/02/WSW_pressphoto6_CreditFiveSeasons-1-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Film Screenings,Lectures + Talks LOCATION:University of Detroit Mercy\, Loranger Architecture Building\, 400 1 W. McNichols Rd\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48221\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=4001 W. McNichols Rd\, Detr oit\, Michigan\, 48221\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Universi ty of Detroit Mercy\, Loranger Architecture Building:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR