Big Pictures is a research lab founded by Carley Hodgkinson and Erin Ashenhurst, faculty at the KPU Wilson School of Design. We are focused on investigating art and design in the built environment. On billboards, posters, signs, and digital screens, in murals and street art, imagery is a meaningful part of our visual experience of cities. The nature of that imagery — the content depicted, the text displayed to sell, inform, or inspire — all works to construct how we understand the values and expectations of our surroundings. Who gets to create that imagery? What narratives and voices are amplified?
On May 10 + 11, 2024, we welcome you for another opportunity to share your work and gather inspiration from artists, designers, curators, producers, and researchers exploring the role of imagery in the built environment. How are narratives constructed or disrupted through the visual signs and symbols adoring our urban spaces? How do images reflect the values of a culture, and create a sense of agency — or alienation? How can meaningful experience be formed through interventions in the routines of everyday life? In digital screens, neon installations, augmented reality, or surfaces re-imagined via murals, graffiti, and photographic works, messages weave through the density of cities across the globe.
Details on the conference and the speaker line-up can be found here.
