Outdoor meetings have gained popularity in the last few years as a safe way to gather during a global pandemic, but even prior to COVID-19, health, wellness and adventure trends were already influencing meeting planners to take events out of the ballroom and into the great outdoors. Many groups depend on a mix of indoor and outdoor events. This is not only a safer option, but it breaks up being inside four walls from morning to evening.
Brutalism is an architectural style characterized by rigid geometry, heavy massing, and its chief material, poured concrete. It is an expression of Modern architecture in the 20th century that privileges function and form equally, and Brutalism has also become an expression or perhaps a symptom of post-World War II urban renewal in England, France, Belgium, Japan, and the United States. As a term, it was coined by the architects Alison and Peter Smithson as what they called a design "ethic" (rather than an aesthetic) for functional and inexpensive housing in the 1950s, but it was popularized by the architecture critic Reyner Banham as "New Brutalism."
CoMotion offers an international series of performances, workshops, exhibitions and panel discussions in this inaugural event, with in-person and digital programming .