ANC Design Week: Carson Chan x MOMA presented by Alaska Design Forum

Enjoy an Anchorage Design Week special guest presentation by Architecture and Design Curator Carson Chan, presented by the Alaska Design Forum and hosted at the Anchorage Museum’s Auditorium on Wednesday evening, February 19th starting at 7:30p. Please enter using the 7th Avenue Special Events doors.

Carson Chan is the inaugural Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment, and a Curator in the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design. He develops, leads, and implements the Ambasz Institute’s manifold research initiatives through a range of programs, including exhibitions, public lectures, conferences, seminars, and publications. Before joining MoMA in 2021, he worked as an architecture writer, curator, and educator. In 2006 he cofounded PROGRAM, a project space and residency program in Berlin that tested the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through exhibition making.

Chan co-curated the 4th Marrakech Biennale in 2012, and the year after he served as Executive Curator of the Biennial of the Americas in Denver. He holds a bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University and a master’s of design studies from Harvard Graduate School of Design. His doctoral research at Princeton University tracks the architecture of public aquariums in the postwar United States against the rise of environmentalism as a social and intellectual movement. He is a founding editor of Current: Collective for Architecture History and Environment, an online publishing and research platform that foregrounds the environment in the study of architecture history.

Registration: FREE

Entry for the event will be via the Museum's 7th Avenue entrance with reception beginning at 6pm and the Alaska Design Forum special presentation by Carson Chan starting at 7:30pm

6p Happy Hour | 7:30p Alaska Design Forum presentation

The Anchorage Museum is located at 625 C Street, with the Special Events entry located on 7th Avenue near A Street.

For more information about Anchorage Design Week please visit www.anchoragedesignweek.org

For more information about Alaska Design Forum please visit www.alaskadesignforum.org

Cover image credit: Museum of Modern Art. www.moma.org/about/senior-staff/carson-chan. retrieved January 5, 2025.

More about Anchorage Design Week, including schedule of events and other links: www.anchoragedesignweek.org

Anchorage Design Week: February 19-23, 2025

Organized by the Anchorage Museum with numerous community partners, Anchorage Design Week is an annual gathering of creative minds to promote and inspire place-based design and imagine the future of our city and the lifeways of Northern regions. Design Week welcomes community members and creatives to consider the role of design in advancing positive futures through visuals, interventions, workshops, and conversations. In 2025 we will consider how sustainable materials and practices foster inclusivity and community while challenging designers to elevate their work products, from brands to buildings.

As we celebrate what makes Alaska distinct, we look forward to connecting with you and our community - and maybe shaking off a bit of cabin fever - as Anchorage Design Week again coincides with Anchorage Fur Rendezvous festivities in late February 2025.

Anchorage Design Week is a project of the Anchorage Museum in collaboration with the Alaska Design Forum, the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects, University of Alaska Anchorage, NeighborWorks Alaska, and AIGA Alaska. Anchorage Design Week is a member of World Design Weeks.

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