On and off the Walls

FUTURE SHOCK: AFTER THE MUSEUM AT MAD

New York’s Museum of Arts and Design steps breaks new ground this spring with an exhibition of new work from some thirty designers, in After the Museum: The Home Front 2013. The exhibition, on view through June 2, will not just look at the future of museums but also propose paths to the future using installations and digital initiatives and will be accompanied by a series of lectures and publications. Included in the exhibition are such forward-thinking initiatives as a software toolkit from the LAB at Rockwell Group to be used to choreograph interactive exhibition spaces or an installation by Aaron Anderson and Eric Timothy Carlson that will place the museum director’s office chair smack in the middle of the gallery space. Said outgoing MAD director Holly Hotchner, “The exhibition space serves as a laboratory where the design community can convene with the public to exchange and form new ideas on how design can expand the museum experience.” madmuseum.org