Friday, 5 December 2008

A slightly less rosy view of the future?

Our People and Design group has decided to project a future society of 2108 which manages to awaken, to change from a selfish mindset to a cooperative mindset.

But we are at a crucial point in history: are we going to crash and burn, or are we going to kick into action? How would design change in a cooperative society? Indeed, how could a new design paradigm potentially facilitate such a society?

On pessimistic days, I think we're likely to do the former (see the video), but I do believe there's a glimmer of hope.

Thursday, 4 December 2008

Paul Hawken: Blessed Unrest

There might just be hope after all....

:-)

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Info-dense design solutions

MoMA has put on a really fascinating exhibition called Design and the Elastic Mind.

My favorite thing so far is the TextArc by W. Bradford Paley. What a visually appealing way of doing structural analysis!


Eureka is another interesting solution for dynamic presentation of information:


The Digg Arc for finding interesting info online:


Mapping the Internet:

Transhumans?