Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling ~ Boston ICA

Featuring work by such noted designers as Isamu Noguchi, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck, among many others, Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling brings together over 150 objects, as well as films and more than 500 illustrations, from the realm of architecture and design to address flexibility and mobility in contemporary domestic life. Organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Living in Motion will have its only U.S. showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Furniture, houses, and objects that incorporate flexibility and multi-functionalism have long been associated with the modern and the contemporary. Living in Motion explores these phenomena in  design and architecture while also locating them ethnographically and anthropologically. The exhibition traces flexible modes of living back through centuries of design and across a variety of cultures, with objects ranging from early European stair-ladders to northern African tents to South American hammocks.

ICA 955 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02115 Tel: 617-266-5152  February 1 – May 7 , 2007

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