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Audacity, imagination, and critical thought underpin this vital compendium of future possibilities
Designs for Different Futures records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly 100 contemporary examples―from wearable objects to urban infrastructure―this handbook interrogates attitudes toward technology, consumption, beauty, and social and environmental challenges. The projects examined include a typeface unreadable by text-scanning software, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a dress incorporating the sound-wave patterns of birds in flight, a shelter for cricket farming, and a speculative prosthetics catalogue for the “post-human.” Commissioned essays and interviews from figures such as Francis Kéré, Bruno Latour, Neri Oxman, and Danielle Wood give voice to issues faced in futures near and far. With perspectives ranging from historical visions of the future to the use of biological materials in production processes, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how design might shape the world to come.
Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition Schedule:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(October 22, 2019–March 8, 2020)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
(September 12, 2020–April 11, 2021)
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Kathryn B. Hiesinger is the J. Mahlon Buck, Jr. Family Senior Curator of European Decorative Arts after 1700, and Michelle Millar Fisher is the Louis C. Madeira IV Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts, both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Emmet Byrne is the design director and associate curator of design at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Maite Borjabad López-Pastor is the Neville Bryan Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design, and Zoë Ryan is the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design, both at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Softcover. Condition: As new. In shrinkwrap. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 271 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm. "Designs for Different Futures records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists engaged in exploring how design might reframe our futures--socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Centered on ninety-nine innovative contemporary design objects, projects, and speculations, this handbook asks readers to contemplate our cultural attitudes toward technology, consumption, beauty, and the social and environmental challenges we face on both a local and global scale in futures near and far. Thought-provoking projects are explored through interpretive texts and interviews by the designers themselves and the core curatorial team. Interspersed with the project pages are newly commissioned texts by academics, scientists, designers, artists, curators, and futurists that explore wide-ranging issues, from historical visions of the future to the use of biological/living materials in products and production processes"--Description provided by publisher. The Design Imagination / Zoë Ryan -- Defuturing the Image of the Future / Andrew Blauvelt -- "We don't seem to live on the same planet": A Fictional Planetarium / Bruno Latour -- Creating Our Sustainable Development Goals for Mars / Daniell Wood -- Accessible Worlds : Imagining Disability in Different Futures with Jillian Mercado and Aimi Hamraie / Michelle Millar Fisher -- Can We Fall in Love with Robots? / Emma Yann Zhang -- The Future of Love? From the Past (Steve Bannon) to the Future (Sex Robots) / Sre ko Horvat -- Mothering Nature: A Conversation with Neri Oxman / Zoë Ryan -- Scuff Marks: A Conversation with Helen Kirkum / Emmet Byrne -- Scaling Up: A Conversation with Simone Farresin & Andrea Trimarchi of Formafantasma / Zoë Ryan -- Variants of Biodesign / Christina Cogdell -- The Magic of Design / V. Michael Bove Jr. & Nora Jackson -- Breakfast before Extinction / Orkan Telhan -- Your Mouth Has Power / LinnYee Yuan and Team -- The Future of the Anthropocene / Chris Rapley -- Small, Local, Open, and Connected / Ezio Manzini -- An Egg, Just an Egg! / Maite Bojabad López-Pastor -- Too Much Truth: A Conversation with David Kirby -- Trust is Not a Noun: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman / Maite Borjabad López-Pastor -- Will Technology Save Us? A Conversation with Gabriella Coleman / Michelle Millar Fisher -- Governance / Marisol LeBron -- The More Equitable Future Beings in the Imagination / Marina Gorbis -- A Place We Build Together: A Conversation with Francis Kéré / Michelle Millar Fisher -- City as Postcard/ City as Polis/City as Poem: A Conversation with Alexandra Midal / Michelle Millar Fisher -- The Fragile Frontier / Colin Fanning -- Mundane Afrofuturist Maniesto / Martine Syms. Seller Inventory # 215949
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