Design and the Elastic Mind
by Museum of Modern Art Library Staff (Created by), Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Paola Antonelli
ISBN-10: 0870707329
ISBN-13: 9780870707322
$34.95
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Published on
Mar 1, 2008
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.56x0.67x9.45 Inches
Weight
0.66 Pounds
About the Book
In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Minds today must be able to synthesize such transformations, whether they are working across several time zones, travelling between satellite maps and nanoscale images, drowning in information, or acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime. Design and the Elastic Mind focuses on designers ability to grasp momentous advances in technology, science and social mores and convert them into useful objects and systems. The projects included range from nanodevices to vehicles, appliances to interfaces and building facades, pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. Designed by award-winning book designer Irma Boom, this volume also features essays by Paola Antonelli; design critic and historian Hugh Aldersey- Williams; visualization design expert Peter Hall; and nanophysicist Ted Sargent that further explore the promising relationship between design and science.