Research Catalog

Title

Designs for different futures / edited by Kathryn B. Hiesinger & Michelle Millar Fisher, Emmet Byrne, Maite Borjabad López-Pastor & Zoë Ryan ; with Andrew Blauvelt, Colin Fanning, and Orkan Telhan ; contributions by Juliana Rowen Barton [and 24 others].

Publication

• Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Minneapolis : Walker Art Center ; [Chicago] : The Art Insitute of Chicago ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2019]
• Valle d'Aosta, Italy : Musumeci S.p.A.

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Additional Authors

• Hiesinger, Kathryn B., 1943-
• Fisher, Michelle Millar
• Byrne, Emmet
• López-Pastor, Maite Borjabad
• Ryan, Zoë
• Blauvelt, Andrew, 1964-
• Barton, Juliana Rowen
• Zhang, Emma Yann
• Horvat, Srećko
• Cogdell, Christina
• LeBrón, Marisol
• Gorbis, Marina
• Syms, Martine
• Latour, Bruno
• Wood, Danielle (Engineer)
• Jackson, Nora (Lecturer in writing)
• Bove, V. Michael, Jr.
• Telhan, Orkan
• Yuan, LinYee
• Rapley, Chris
• Manzini, Ezio
• Fanning, Colin
• Ryan, Gerald Nelson
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, publisher, issuing body, organizer, host institution.
• Walker Art Center, publisher, issuing body, organizer, host institution.
• Art Institute of Chicago, publisher, issuing body, organizer, host institution.
• Yale University Press, publisher.

Description

271 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color); 30 cm

Summary

• "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.
• "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"

Subject

• Design > History > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Civilization > Forecasting > Exhibitions
• Future in art > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Future in art
• Civilization > Forecasting
• Design

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Illustrated works.
• Essays.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Designs for Different Futures, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 22, 2019-March 8, 2020; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, September 12, 2020-January 3, 2021; The Art Institute of Chicago, February 6-May 16, 2021."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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) / Srećko 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.

ISBN

• 9780876332900
• 0876332904

LCCN

2019021193

OCLC

• on1089977157
• 1089977157

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries