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The Museum of Modern Art, New York
March 2008
On Sale: March 1, 2008
192 pages
ISBN: 0870707329
EAN: 9780870707322
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Over the past few decades, we have experienced dramatic
changes in some of the most established dimensions of human
life: time, space, matter and individuality. Today our minds
must be able to synthesize such transformations, whether
they are working across several time zones, traveling
between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully
drowning in information or acting fast in order to preserve
a bit of down-time. Organized by Paola Antonelli, Museum of
Modern Art Curator of Architecture and Design, Design and
the Elastic Mind focuses on the ability of designers to
grasp momentous advances in technology, science and social
mores, and to convert them into useful objects and systems.
Included projects 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 features essays exploring
the promising relationship between design and science by
Antonelli, design critic and historian Hugh
Aldersey-Williams, visualization design expert Peter Hall
and nanophysicist Ted Sargent.
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