1. WMA
10 October 2013
[ Storefront ] Olson Kundig:
What if we open a store where everyone is welcome and nothing is for sale?

3. olsonkundigarchitects.com

4. The Frye Art Museum
Seattle, WA

5. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center
Seattle, WA

6. Noah’s Ark at the Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA

7. 1- Can exhibits be more topical, more responsive and more immediate?
2- Can we establish a concept, design an installation, build it, and create public programs
in 4 weeks for less that $1000?

8. [ Storefront ] Olson Kundig: An experiment in design, culture and social practice

9. Pioneer Square neighborhood, Seattle WA

10. Evidence of the Recession

11. Evidence of the recession

12. [ Storefront ]

14. Artist Mary Ann Peters
WSU Architecture students

15. WMA Conference in Portland, I met Sandra Jackson Dumont from the Seattle Art Museum

16. “What can
we do together that we cannot do separately…?”

17. “… Record Store …”

18. Record Store: Will anyone listen…..?

19. The Process: How we move from concept to built installation in one month

20. Thursday Crit: beer and ideas

21. Work Party: Volunteers and donated materials

22. The Collectors: Bernie Hall and Stephen Ward donated 3000 vinyl records

23. The Opening: Seattle’s 1st Thursday

24. The Listening Parties: Curators from all corners of our community

25. Recreating the ritual of vinyl records

26. The Listening Stations: Some visitors had never listened to a vinyl record

27. The Listening Parties: Sometimes it was just a party

28. Mushroom Farm: Can we grow food in a store? Partnership with CityLab 7

29. Mushroom Farm: Alex the mushroom farmer

30. We have 3 coffee shops on our block.

31. Mushroom Farm: Work party to build the greenhouse

32. Mushroom Farm: Work party to build the greenhouse

36. Mushroom Farm: Community lunchroom

37. Mushroom Farm: Harvest dinners

38. Underbelly: Partnership with the Degenerate Art Ensemble

39. Next 50 Art Grant: Degenerate Art Ensemble & Olson Kundig

43. SKID ROAD: Who’s working to end homelessness?

44. PARTNERS: Artist Mary Larson and 12 organizations working to eradicate homelessness

49. Table Talk: What’s for dinner?

50. Partners: Michael Hebb and MCDM

56. Wonderland: What if teen aged girls called the shots?

57. Partners: The girls from Reel Grrls

62. I WANT ALL OF THIS, ALL OF THIS I WANT: Merging algorithms and engineering with space.

63. One in a Million: Global atrocities, mass burial graves, …….and kids?

64. Partner: One Million Bones and the Bezos Family Foundation

66. One in a Million: Final installation at National Mall, Washington DC

67. Dabblelab: A free school

68. Dabblelab : Cocktail Mixology

69. Dabblelab : Bike Maintenance

70. Dabblelab: Raising Chickens

71. “There is nothing else like it…
in fact, its not even like itself.”
Robin Held
Executive director, Reel Grrls
[ storefront ] closes Halloween 2013

72. “How often I found where I should
be going, only by setting out for
somewhere else.”
Buckminster Fuller
[ Itinerant Projects ]: In 2014 we begin

73. [ Itinerant Projects ] #1: Block Party

74. [ Itinerant Projects ] #1: Block Party

75. [ Itinerant Projects ] #1: Block Party