These projects are specifically created for Switchboard and expand on our annual theme. Different from the individual public programs, the special projects develop over the course of the year and provide a continuing presence.

Jamie Kruse: Thingness of Energy
February 2 through April 24, 2012
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, lobby
Parsons The New School for Design
2 West 13th Street (off Fifth Avenue)
Exhibition hours: Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition reception
Thursday, February 2, 2012,…
Posted on January 18, 2012
Lin + Lam: Change Encounters
“Change Encounters” is a new project by Lin + Lam, conceived in response to the Vera List Center’s focus theme “Speculating on Change.” Lin + Lam have collected an interdisciplinary array of cultural and historical predictive devices, appropriations from popular culture, historical sources, and…
Posted on September 9, 2010

Melanie Crean: Shape of Change
The Shape of Change project is a navigable archive of American and Iraqi visions of change. Consisting of two projects, it investigates how U.S. and Iraqi citizens perceive and represent personal and political change. The first is an online archive that…
Posted on September 20, 2009



