Nature : collaborations in design

Author:

National Design Triennial (6th : 2019 : New York, N.Y.; Kerkrade, Netherlands), organizer

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York, NY : Published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, [2019], New York, NY : Distributed Worldwide by ARTBOOK / D.A.P, and ©2019

Subject:

Design - Environmental aspects - Exhibitions
Sustainable design - Exhibitions
Human ecology - Exhibitions
Climatic changes - Exhibitions

Contributor:

Lipps, Andrea, author
McQuaid, Matilda, author
Condell, Caitlin, author
Bertrand, Gene, author
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, issuing body, host institution
Cube Design Museum, host institution

ISBN:

9781942303237 and 1942303238

Description:

240 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Cube Design Museum, May 10, 2019-January 20, 2020

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Matilda McQuaid -- Understanding Nature / Caitlin Condell -- Next Nature / Michael John Gorman and Koert van Mensvoort conversation -- Simulating Nature / Andrea Lipps -- Paracrafting Landscape / GT2P and Volcanologist conversation -- Salvaging Nature / Gene Bertrand -- Facilitating Nature / Andrea Lipps -- Synthetic Biology / George Church and Daisy Ginsberg conversation -- Augmenting Nature / Andrea Lipps -- Remediating Nature / Matilda McQuaid -- Design and Science Linguistics / Suzanne Lee and Nadine Bongaerts conversation -- Nurturing Nature / Caitlin Condell -- Margaret Simons --

Summary:

Designers today are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. While the modern industrial age gave way to designs that vastly improved human enterprise through technology, there were unintended and destructive consequences for the environment. Humans are intrinsically linked to nature yet our actions have frayed this relationship, forcing designers to think more intentionally and to consider the impact of every design decision, from an artifact's manufacture and use to its obsolescence. Designers are aligning with biologists, engineers, agriculturists, environmentalists and many other disciplines to design a more harmonious and regenerative future. Based on these new partnerships, designers are asking different questions and anticipating future challenges, which not only change the design process, but also what design means. 0'Nature: Collaborations in Design' includes over sixty-five international projects from the fields of architecture, product design, landscape design, fashion, interactive and communication design, and material research. More than 300 compelling and exquisite photographs, illustrations and content from data visualizations illustrate seven essays, which explain and explore designers' strategies around understanding, simulating, salvaging, facilitating, augmenting, remediating and nurturing nature. Four conversations between scientists and designers delve into topics related to synthetic biology, scientific versus design lexicon, and recent shifts in the meaning of nature with a glossary illuminating scientific, technological and theoretical concepts and processes invoked by the designers.00Exhibition: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, USA & CUBE Design Museum, Kerkrade, The Netherlands (10.05.2019-20.01.2020)

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

NK1520 .N38 2019

Available

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