Title & Author:

Design and the elastic mind / [contributors, Paola Antonelli [and others]].

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2008.

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Part of the Asia Pacific Design Library.
QSL
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 24-May 12, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Preface / Barry Bergdoll -- Design and the Elastic Mind / Paola Antonelli -- Portfolio 1 -- Applied Curiosity / Hugh Aldersey-Williams -- Portfolio 2 -- Nanotechnology: Design in the Quantum Vernacular / Ted Sargent -- Portfolio 3 -- Critical Visualization / Peter Hall -- Portfolio 4 -- All Together Now! / Paola Antonelli -- Portfolio 5 -- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art.

Summary:

Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace--working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information. Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of intelligence, but today's instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger: elasticity, the product of adaptability plus acceleration. Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history--changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior--and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use. This Web site presents over three hundred of these works, including fifty projects that are not featured in the gallery exhibition.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780870707322 (pbk.)
0870707329 (pbk.)

Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Exhibitions.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Industrial design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Design and technology.
Design and technology Exhibitions.
Technological innovations Exhibitions.
Design et technologie Expositions.
Design Expositions.
Innovations Expositions.
Design Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Design et technologie.
Technological innovations
Design
Industrial design
Industriell formgivning.
Tekniska innovationer.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Antonelli, Paola.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262451
Call No.: BIB 193554
Status: Available