
MoMA's 'Design and the Elastic Mind' opens tonight with over 200 objects on display exploring the relationship between design, science and innovation. The exhibition focuses on the role of the designer to help the general public adapt and understand rapid technological advancement and the changing human condition in the contemporary world. (Whew!) Here's the pitch:
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. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design's most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change.
Design and the Elastic Mind
February 24 - May 12, 2008
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street (btwn. Fifth & Sixth ave.)
New York, NY 10019
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Comments
Seems a shame that the end date is ten days before ICFF, which is also focusing on innovative materials.