Posted on Thursday, March 3, 2011 by Lindsey Westbrook
Graduate Program in Design and Graphic Design faculty member Jeremy Mende is the 2010-11 Fellow in Design at the American Academy in Rome, and his project, 100yearsfromnow, was recently unveiled. It is a public art installation produced in the streets of Rome with the cooperation of the city.
See photos of the project and read more about it.
Eight hundred posters have been installed in key districts of Rome, each displaying one of five oblique phrases. Each phrase was written to stimulate a different aspect of our latent internal concerns about the near future. The phrases are searchable using Google Adwords and link to the project website in an effort to make public some of the thoughts the posters precipitate.
The launch date of February 20, 2011, was chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the original Futurist manifesto.