Nectar

Organized for The Weitzman School: A Celebration of Design, Nectar is an interdisciplinary exhibition by a select group of students about “things that are sweet, sticky and dangerous!”

Participating students include: 

Alexandra Adamski, MArch’19
James Andrew Billingsley, MLA’20, MArch’20
Lauren Aguilar, MArch’19, MSHP’19
Julia Bell, C’19
Natalia Cabalceta, BA’20
Christine Chung, MLA’20
Tone Chu, MLA’20, MArch’21
David Lewis Johnson, MFA'20
Saif Khawaja, W’21
Chloe Onbargi, C’20
Alina Peng, C’20
Fay Walker, MCP’19, MUSA’19
Logan Weaver, MArch’19
Mengda Zhang, MFA’19

About the Works on View:

Lauren Aguilar proposes a design for a new 'US Center for Illicit Antiquities' sited in a former military bunker.

Alexandra Adamski and Logan Weaver present a grim but ultimately hopeful set of buildings perched above the apocalyptic floodplains of the Mississippi.

James Andrew Billingsley’s Strange Strangers is a 20-foot mural on the dramatic transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene “as if it were playing on the screen of his imagination.”

Christine Chung argues for the importance of just being idle in an installation about leisure time spent by the seaside in which space and time are literally bent to her own will.

Tone Chu questions how we look at the world by reworking the idea of the Claude glass, the 18th-century lens through which British connoisseurs looked at landscape. 

David Johnson’s short film Warbler depicts a small dazed bird following a collision with one of the gleaming new skyscrapers at the Hudson Yards in Manhattan.

Chloe Onbargi draws on the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault and her own memories and perceptions of the city to capture the rough appearance of building-site hoardings with digital screens set in peep-holes.

Fay Walker uses spatial analytics to examine the current Philadelphia housing market from a social-justice perspective.

Saif Khawaja, Julia Bell, Natalia Cabalceta, Mengda Zhang and Alina Peng introduce their design for a new denim made of corn husks, based on a course on bio-technology with Associate Professor of Fine Arts Orkan Telhan.

The exhibition is curated by Richard Weller, professor and chair of landscape architecture, Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, and co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology.