Welp, what cannot Alexis Sablone do? After catching our consideration in 2002’s PJ Ladd video, she’s gone on to fairly the life and profession: Professional skating, graduate levels, shoe design, the Olympics, skating within the Guggenheim, and now this: Talking on the World Round Summit. Sit down as a result of class is in session. Please give professor Sablone your undivided consideration:
The World Round’s Youtube description is under for extra context. Congrats on one other milestone Alexis!
“Alexis Sablone may be an Olympic skateboarder, however they’re at first a designer and artist. After highschool, Sablone enrolled at Columbia’s Barnard School, then educated as an architect at MIT. Since then, the seven-time X Video games medalist has carved out a profession that attracts on each of their obsessions. Every an experiment in how city design can strengthen the social cloth of our cities, their large-scale, useable (and skateable) sculptures are designed to encourage the inventive ‘misuse’ of public areas, and invite a large, ever-expanding spectrum of communities to share their stewardship. Thus far, their tasks have revitalised a public sq. in Malmö, Sweden, introduced permanence and shade to courts in Montclair, New Jersey, and allowed skaters and non-skaters alike to spend time on the waterfront in Lisbon, Portugal. Via their observe, Sablone goals to create areas for a dialogue that cuts throughout the variations of age, race and gender.”
Program for the total occasion obtainable to obtain at https://theworldaround.com/program/
This presentation has been edited and was a part of THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2024, introduced by The World Round and the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday, Might, 11 2024. The occasion was hosted in partnership with The World Round International Cultural Associate Fondation Cartier pour l’artwork contemporain. To seek out out extra about The World Round’s programming or to get in contact, go to https://www.theworldaround.com“
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