The 2025 Exhibit Columbus YES Design—AND Research: University Design Research Fellow Colloquium is a free, two-day event that focuses on the work of the six teams awarded the 2025 Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellowships (UDRF) from the 2025 exhibition, Yes And.
Landmark Columbus Foundation, in partnership with Indiana University J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program, will host the University Design Research Fellowship Colloquium that will bring together the six current UDRFellows, past Fellows, and guest experts for a dynamic exchange exploring how design research activates public spaces and strengthens communities. Guests are invited to take part in conversations, panel discussions, and shared learning across multiple sessions. Each day offers opportunities to connect with Fellows and colleagues while engaging with ideas at the intersection of design and research. The Colloquium will take place across two days, with sessions hosted at multiple venues. Visit exhibitcolumbus.org for full details and registration. This program is produced with support from a grant from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation.
Conference:
Thursday October 9, 5:30–7:30pm
Friday, October 10, 8:30am–4:30pm
Keynote Speaker: Chris Cornelius of studio:indigenous. Cornelius was a 2016–17 J. Irwin and Xenia S Miller Prize Recipient whose project Wiikiami received international acclaim. It will occur in downtown Columbus and highlight the Fellows’ work and design research within their respective institutions.
2024–25 UNIVERSITY DESIGN RESEARCH FELLOWS
Awarded to leading professors of architecture, landscape architecture, and design from North American universities, six University Design Research Fellows were selected by the Exhibit Columbus curatorial team.
Chandler Ahrens, Constance Vale, and Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, Inside Out, Washington University
Sarah Aziz, A View of the World from Indiana, University of New Mexico
Akima Brackeen,Pool/Side, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Andrew Fu, Aaron Goldstein, and Aleksandr Mergold,The Steel Horsie, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Michael Jefferson and Suzanne Lettieri, Apart, Together, Cornell University
César Lopez, Jess Myers, Amelyn Ng, and Germán Pallares-Avitia, PUBLIC/SCHOOL/GROUNDS, University of Virginia, Syracuse University, Columbia University, and Rhode Island School of Design
