Certified CenterAs the end of the year approaches, we at Fields BMW Lakeland have a lot to look forward to. Not only are we anticipating the culmination of a great year for the brand and looking ahead to another in 2014--we're also celebrating the finale of the two-year run of the BMW Guggenheim Lab.
Now through January 5, the Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab exhibition will be open at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The exhibition will portray the experiences and concepts coming out of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, which has acted as a community center, urban think tank and public gathering space across New York, Mumbai and Berlin in an effort to encourage innovative ideas surrounding urban life and a new manner of thinking about cities. The lab gathered tens of thousands of participants during free public programs, research initiatives and urban projects both on-site and online. All of these experiences combined to inform the current exhibition, which is a co-initiative of the BMW Group and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Though we're far away in Lakeland, this BMW dealer is thrilled to see the brand carry the BMW Guggenheim Lab forward with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation into a one-of-a-kind exhibition that aggregates the most popular ideas in urban thinking from around the world. Featured trends and terms have been pulled from 100 Urban Trends: A Glossary of Ideas from the BMW Guggenheim Lab – a compilation of 300 terms from each Lab venue.
Accompanied by sketches, drawings, short videos and a series of public programs, several of the main trends on display will be:
· Ostrich Effect
· Participatory Urbanism
· Collaborative Urban Mapping
· Happy City
· Suburban Sprawl
All terms reference a certain Lab event or learning, ranging from tours, talks, workshops and participatory programs to urban research projects and film screenings, to define the ways society has come to understand, inhabit and design the world's cities.