In the fall of 2018, five design teams were selected for the Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize to create an exhibit that brings a deep understanding of the ways architecture and design, at a variety of scales, shape our cities and inform the ways we relate to each other. They began by presenting portfolios to community members. Then each returned to their home studio to generate ideas specific to the community needs and vision for the future of their city.

The Good Design and the Community architectural film series by Spirit of Space follows each designer into the studio and shares that experience with the community that inspired it.

MASS Design Group (Boston, MA; Kigali, Rwanda)
Central Middle School, 2007, Ralph Johnson of Perkins + Will

“Teachers take seriously this challenge of understanding with their students how food systems are inextricably bound up with everything else in our world, and affect everything around us.” - Caitlin Taylor

Fifty percent of the habitable surface of our planet is dedicated to food production. It is the world’s largest industry, yet our cultural, spiritual, and historical relationship to how we cook and what we eat is largely disconnected. “Corn / Meal” asks us to reflect on how we can strengthen our relationship with our food, taking familiar elements of the American Heartland—a field of corn and the classic picnic table—and shaping them into an interactive landscape of living architecture where students and the public alike are invited to reconnect to what we eat and how we cook.

Central Middle School’s cafeteria and classrooms overlook this living installation that features five varieties of corn including two types of field corn, two types of edible popcorn, and a dwarf cultivar. The installation’s signature events include a Back-to-School Meal and an alternative Thanksgiving where indigenous culture is honored and celebrated.
Materials - Corn, soil, picnic tables

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