The Future of Art According to Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller’s interdisciplinary design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has generated some of the contemporary art world’s most inspiring spaces—including the Broad in downtown Los Angeles, the ICA Boston, and the forthcoming renovation of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2019. Diller and her partners Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, and Benjamin Gilmartin have earned reputations as nonconformist, boundary-pushing thinkers, repurposing materials, and playing with space.

Nonetheless, she says looking towards the future presents unique challenges. “Time is really, really difficult for the architect,” she says. “The conventions of architecture are to make buildings that last—to make them enduring.” Here, she contemplates how to design buildings that transcend time, while accommodating the continuous evolution of the activities and art forms that will exist within them.

Featuring Elizabeth Diller

Directed by William Silva Reddington

Executive Producers: Matt McLaughlin, Andrew Simkiss, and Harrison Nalevansky
Director of Photography: Ryan Marie Helfant
Line Producer: Zein Zubi
Music: “Ocean Pulse” by Sirus Music. Appears courtesy of Premium Beats. “Set, Plan” by A. Taylor. Appears courtesy of Musicbed.
Editor: William Silva Reddington
Post Supervisor: Kristine Pregot

Production Team for Artsy:
Marina Cashdan, Head of Editorial and Creative Director
Alexander Forbes, Executive Editor
Demie Kim, Editorial Associate
Jamie Arendt, Producer
Owen Dodd, Designer
Molly Gottschalk, Features Producer

[rrfirefly]

It's interesting how when Liz is speaking to the camera (as in a lecture) she has a tendency to fill her speech with ers and ums. Off camera she seems more precise and concise. Despite all that, I have enormous respect for her creative thinking and her off-center projects that are beautifully intriguing.

[melodieebner]

Wonderful and fascinating Elizabeth Diller- you will be speaking in Berlin on April 25-26, 2018 and I just cannot wait to hear what you have to say then. I love your work and ideas. I appreciate the person who filmed you in such a way of - the perfect image of what you want to say. Lovely work and 'we' are watching you!

[Zen-Design]

In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future. Citizens of the world's richest and most technologically advanced nations, many of them will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time. For them, the future will have arrived too soon.