The University of Utah, the third-ranked university in the U.S. for renewable energy use, has launched their publicity campaign for Solar Ivy!

The idea of bringing Solar Ivy to the University of Utah was initiated by senior Environmental Studies major Tom Melburn.  Two-thirds of funding for the project will come from the University’s Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund, supplemented by donations from the community.  Visit the SCIF’s fundraising page for more information about how to support the project!

Spanish doctoral candidate Nacho Zamora has created a collection of art based around solar renewable energy.  This week and next he is highlighting Solar Ivy and SMIT.  Mr. Zamora identifies public art, specifically projects that utilize sources of renewable energy as fundamental to developing and elevating public discourse and understanding of alternative energy sources.  He will be presenting his research at the European Union Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels this spring.

Nacho Zamora, a Spanish architecture doctoral candidate has curated an international presentation and exhibition of renewable energy–focused technology, art and design, including Solar Ivy.  Mr. Zamora is taking the exhibition to Brussels in April at Sustainable Energy Week.   You can follow along with his research and preparation for EUSEW here.

Though it has been up for a couple months, we thought we would urge any and all who have not yet visited to be sure they catch this excellent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.  Paola Antonelli and the Department of Architecture and Design curated this sweeping survey of design from the perspective of time, selecting pieces that represent both the short and long views.

Make sure you check it out, as well as the other great exhibitions at MoMA.

Grow and Solar Ivy were featured in the exhibit Kitchen Ecology at Dwell on Design in Los Angeles, 2009.

(image via designboom)

In October 2008, SMIT was commissioned by Elizabeth Oliver, formerly of Minima, to build a bus shelter using Solar Ivy for A Clean Break, an exhibition of low-impact, prefabricated urban design in conjunction with Design Phildelphia and National Design Week 2008.  The final shelter was realized with the help of Ferra Designs.

SMIT’s GROW is installed at the Green Haus as part of Greensburg Cubed, the design-build project by Kansas State University, Greensburg, May 2008.

SMIT co-founder Teresita Cochran participated in a panel at the Sustainable Design Symposium of the Down:2:Earth trade show in Boston on March 29, 2008.

GROW was featured in the exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Paola Antonelli.  The exhibit ran from February 24 through May 12, 2008.

Hello, friends!

We are very excited to announce that as of 02/05/10, GROW is on display as part of the new show ‘Action! Design over Time’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. If you are in town, drop by to see it! It is an ongoing show, so it will be up for quite a while.

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street  New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400

We will be posting photos very soon of GROW in this new installation at MoMA!

Cheers,
-Sita.