Exhibitions

HIVEMIND: An Inspiration Collective

This exhibit celebrates the visual thinking and work-in-progress of BAC students. The act of designing is illusive - hard to explain technically and different person to person. Yet each student comes to know how designing works for them --the moment when the generating concept in a student's head and form making begin to connect, and sparks fly. Rather than focusing on shiny final projects, HIVEMIND explores the "in-between" moments of the design process -- an experience which is marked by uncertainty, experimentation, and moments of epiphany as ideas take form in two and three dimensions.

The intention is to convert the McCormick Gallery into a student space, where folks can congregate and linger, surrounded the inspiration of by ideas in formation. The work is made in the pursuit of BAC classes in the schools of Design Studies, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Architecture, put forward by BAC Education Directors and Deans, and curated by Richard Griswold, Karen Nelson, Peter Atwood, and BAC student activists.

Concurrently, BAC students are invited to participate in the hivemind feed, an online environment where students can use their student email address to upload their inspirations for view in the gallery, on the street, and wherever a smartphone might be. This allows our far-flung, diverse student body to participate whether they are on the fourth floor of 320 Newbury, or in an architectural office in Alaska.

McCormick Gallery exhibits a variety of design work that speaks to wider themes of sustainability, historic preservation and new technologies, and to BAC values of social responsibility, accessibility and diversity. Prominently located on the corner of Newbury and Hereford streets, in the BAC's main building, the gallery engages thousands of shoppers, students, and tourists that pass by its windows and the bustling college within. All come together in this space for public opening receptions and exhibition related lectures.