Art-chitectural Wonders

The Divine Comedy is an exhibition by the Harvard Graduate School Of Design filled with artist-slash-architects whose aim is to explore the way the mind, cosmos and history can be shown using aesthetics and space.

Narrated by the curator of the exhibition, Sanford Kwinter—an international guru on architecture theory—the video above is kind of an interactive look at the exhibit; the camera tracks first through a large hall, filled with machines designed by Olafur Eliasson to make the viewer confront their own senses and the nature of experience. The exhibition also features ”an air-filled, 7-meter-tall, 14-sided, irregular,transparent structure loaded with solar cells, sensors, recorders, and transmitters” constructed by Tomás Saraceno. It can, weather permitting, be later launched into the air above Cambridge.

The most striking of the works shown is easily Ai Weiwei‘s Untitled, a collection of hollow cubes made out of 5, 335 children’s backpacks—one for each schoolchild killed in China’s Sichuan Provence during the earthquakes of 2009.

Details

• Production Company

  Harvard Graduate School Of Design

• Art by

  Ai Weiwei, Olafur Eliasson, Tomás Saraceno

• Event

  The Divine Comedy