YES Design—AND Research UDRF Colloquium

2025 Exhibit Columbus YES Design—AND Research: University Design Research Fellow Colloquium

A free event to learn about creating innovative quality of place experiences

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.

The event will feature a keynote presentation by 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.

The Colloquium is created in partnership with Indiana University's J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program, and produced with support from a grant from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation.

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

About Exhibit Columbus

Exhibit Columbus is a program of Landmark Columbus Foundation and an exploration of community, architecture, art, and design that activates the modern legacy of Columbus, Indiana. It creates a cycle of programming that uses this context to convene conversations around innovative ideas and commissions site-responsive installations in a free public exhibition. exhibitcolumbus.org

About the J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program at Indiana University

Artistic experimentation and architectural design flourish simultaneously at Indiana University’s NAAB-accredited J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program. Our unique curricular model is rooted in hands-on making and engages with the ecological, material, social, and theoretical context of contemporary practice. We are located in the heart of downtown Columbus, Indiana where an extensive architectural legacy is at our doorstep and serves as a living case study in design excellence. Students and faculty are vested in the city’s evolution through community partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and design-build initiatives. We also foster a global perspective through the Nomadic Studio, which provides funded opportunities to live and learn in culturally vibrant and active urban centers.