Exhibition
Rights of Way: Mobility and the City
Rights of Way: Mobility and the City is a global exploration of mobility and transportation in cities. The exhibition features dozens of examples of visionary urban thinking, showing how the city is shaped by the ways people move through it.
Rights of Way: Mobility and the City tours
BSA Space is offering complimentary guided tours as part of its exhibition program. Tours are available Fridays and and Sundays at 1:00 pm, and last approximately 30 minutes. Meet your docent at the first floor information desk at 290 Congress Street, near the green staircase. Tours are suitable for all ages, and times are subject to change. Visitors can currently drop in for a free guided tour around Rights of Way: Mobility and the City, the exhibition on view through May 26. Rights of Way is a global exploration of mobility and transportation in cities.
Curated by James Graham and Meredith Miller of MILLIGRAM-office, Rights of Way demonstrates that our urban environment is the result of constant negotiation among designers, policy makers, the private sector, and individual residents. By claiming that access to mobility is access to opportunity and that everyone has his or her own “right of way,” this future-oriented show reveals how those public rights are always at play in the shared commons of the city. The exhibition examines large-scale urban futures, contemporary examples of innovative design for transit and public space, historical attempts at remaking the city, and individual adaptations of mobility systems. Rights of Way also includes three projects from the 2012 Audi Urban Future Award, focusing on three megaregions: the Pearl River Delta in China’s Guangdong Province; São Paulo; and the Boston–Washington, DC (BosWash) Corridor. Displays include renderings, drawings, photography, videos, infographics, and a media library that allows visitors to delve further into the issues raised by the exhibition content.
Curators: MILLIGRAM-office
Designers: Höweler + Yoon Architecture and MILLIGRAM-office
Content partner: Stylepark
Exhibition graphics: MGMT. design
In addition, the first floor of BSA Space displays a rotating gallery of “digital residencies,” in which designers, artists, and thinkers from around the world stake their own claims about mobility in the city. This exhibition is part of Overhaul: the 2013-2014 Transportation Series, organized by the Boston Society of Architects, the Boston Foundation for Architecture, Boston’s Green Ribbon Commission, and the Barr Foundation. Overhaul includes the Traffic Advisory speaker series. Rights of Way: Mobility and the City
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Also from Rights of Way
Mobility and the City: "Six Ideas" - Lecture Series
To indicate the extraordinary breadth of sites, systems, and approaches that the problems of commuting, travel, and migration have brought to the fields of architecture and urban design, this speaker series proposes new ways of thinking about the complex ecology of objects, networks, and populations that we call “mobility.” Each lecture corresponds to a video interview incorporated into the exhibition Rights of Way: Mobility and the City, now on view at BSA Space.
