Design for Culture

Goodweather is a Canadian design studio specializing in work with cultural institutions, artists, and curators on projects related to contemporary art, museology, and public access to cultural material / material culture. Collaborating with other talented creators, fabricators, cultural workers, practitioners, and professionals, Goodweather has produced a diverse body of work bridging the disciplines of architecture, digital media, installation and exhibition design, publication design, film and photography. Projects have been featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts & Creativity, The Canadian

Centre for Architecture (Montreal), The Museum of Vancouver, Artspeak, 221A Artist Run Centre, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and in publications such as Cabinet Magazine, (New York), *Wallpaper, Canadian Architect (Toronto), Pidgin Magazine (Princeton Architectural Press), and Front Magazine (Western Front Gallery).

Goodweather is directed by Michael Lis (M.Arch, MRAIC). Michael completed his Masters of Architecture at the University of British Columbia in 2011 after receiving a Bachelors of Environmental Design Studies at Dalhousie University in 2008. Prior to founding Goodweather, Michael pursued doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia in a self-directed interdisciplinary program involving the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the Department of Art History and Visual Art, and the Critical and Curatorial Studies Program.