Images courtesy of the Guggenheim Foundation
The BMW Guggenheim Lab launches its nine-city worldwide tour tomorrow, starting in Manhattan's East Village. The Lab will offer free programs that explore the challenges of today's cities within a mobile structure that was designed to house this urban experiment. Entitled Confronting Comfort, the lab's first cycle will explore how urban environments can be made more responsive to people's needs, how a balance can be found between notions of individual versus collective comfort, and how the urgent need for environmental and social responsibility can be met.
Over the next six years, this project will go through three successive cycles, each with its own theme and specially designed mobile structure, which was designed by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. The two-story structure is nestled between two buildings on a three-quarter-acre T-shaped site with its southern end opening out onto an inviting landscaped public space and café.
At the conclusion of the first cycle in 2013, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will present a special exhibition of the findings in New York, Berlin, and Mumbai.
This inaugural lab is located at First Park (Houston at 2 Avenue) and is open for free Wednesdays to Sundays from August 3 to October 16.
