UX Design, Exhibit Curation, Experience Design
Museum of Design Atlanta Exhibition co-curated by Lawrence Azerrad, a 2-time Grammy award-winning creative director, author and curator; Ruby Savage, an internationally known creative director, DJ and music & culture curator; Floyd Hall, a media strategist, cultural producer and documentarian from Atlanta; and Marlin Fuentes, a designer, researcher, ethnomusicologist and entrepreneur working at the nexus of culture, emerging technology and design. Featured in FastCompany, It's Nice That and Recording Academy - Grammy.com.
TEAM Lawrence Azerrad, Ruby Savage, Floyd Hall, Marlon Fuentes, Harika Adivikolanu, Oriana Ren, Omar El-Sabrout, Sarah Panzer, Christian Pugsley, Seetharaman Subramanian, Daniel Karaj
ROLE Education Initiative Author, Producer, Web Designer
DATE 2021
The Future Happened is an online music and speculative design exhibit through the The Museum of Design Atlanta, live until April 2022.
The Future Happened examines how design and art deepens our relationship with music. 40 artists from Europe, Africa, Japan and across the United States showcase the intersections between music, art, design and technology.
The online exhibit is showcased through the lens of six primary categories – technology, timelessness, community, power, Atlanta and healing – which allow viewers to explore creative expression and futuristic ideas at the intersection of music and design.
The Future Happened is an online exhibition examining how design and art deepens our relationship with music. Design can be key in sharing our stories and amplifying our power to make a difference in the world. The Future Happened examines innovation and technology that enhances connections while reinforcing our capacity to spark change.
With a focus on Atlanta the exhibit charts the city’s vast sphere of influence locally and globally, while highlighting 40 artists from Europe, Africa, Japan and across the United States. Featured artists represent a spectrum of genres – from Afro-fusion and hip-hop to indie rock, nu metal, punk, electronica, rapper poet, house pop and soul – and include Adama Jalloh, Charlotte Adigéry, Clipping, Peter Saville, Nep Sidhu, Daito Manabe, Spillage Village and more.
The Future Happened was featured in FastCompany, It's Nice That and Recording Academy-Grammy.com.
Through six primary categories – technology, timelessness, community, power, Atlanta and healing – viewers can explore how creative expression at the intersection of music and design can drive change across a variety of disciplines, including fine art, augmented reality, spatial audio, film video, animation, photography, fashion, zines, speculative design, choreography, happenings, performance and graphic design.
Along with the virtual exhibition, The Future Happened education initiative allows viewers to participate in online programming for adults and children exploring Zine culture – a DIY and tactile way to share stories that draw from personal perspectives. Inspired by Zines first used in the 1970s to help promote punk music, the educational program will invite participants to learn how they can make and share their own story through Zines.
The Future Happened Zine Challenge examines the most fundamental utilities of music, how it can reflect our emotions, alter our emotions, reflect our histories and hopes. Building on this understanding, participants explore what it means to use visual art to describe music, how music is expressed visually, and how this relationship can help us form deeper connections to the power of music and what it represents. During the creation process, participants are encouraged to draw inspiration from contemporary and loved historical examples of zines.
