Nature: Collaborations in Design

Author:   Caitlin Condell ,  Andrea Lipps ,  Matilda McQuaid ,  Gene Bertram
Publisher:   Cooper-Hewitt Museum
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9781942303237


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   09 May 2019
Format:   Hardback
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An exploration of the ways in which designers are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. 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. 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.

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Author:   Caitlin Condell ,  Andrea Lipps ,  Matilda McQuaid ,  Gene Bertram
Publisher:   Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Imprint:   Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Weight:   1.040kg
ISBN:  

9781942303237


ISBN 10:   1942303238
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   09 May 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Exhibition to inspire conversations and change. --Eleanor Gibson Dezeen Nature, which explores the ways designs drawn from nature can address today's environmental challenges, features 62 designers from around the world.--Katherine Roth Associated Press Transgenic silk garments that emit a neon glow, sartorial burial suits embedded with flesh-eating microbes, and a bouquet of perfume notes derived from the DNA of extinct flora are just a few of the mind-bending works of design presented in Nature. --Aileen Kwun CNN The exhibition illustrates the ways in which designers are working with scientists, engineers, and environmentalists to solve the crises stemming from climate change, environmental pollution, and other man-made problems.--Pilar Viladas Architectural Record A fascinating, informative, engaging, thoughtful and thought-provoking volume of seminal and original volume, Nature: Collaborations in Design will prove to be an enduringly valued and appreciated addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library collections.--Michael Dunford Midwest Book Review


Exhibition to inspire conversations and change. --Eleanor Gibson Dezeen Nature, which explores the ways designs drawn from nature can address today's environmental challenges, features 62 designers from around the world.--Katherine Roth Associated Press Transgenic silk garments that emit a neon glow, sartorial burial suits embedded with flesh-eating microbes, and a bouquet of perfume notes derived from the DNA of extinct flora are just a few of the mind-bending works of design presented in Nature. --Aileen Kwun CNN The exhibition illustrates the ways in which designers are working with scientists, engineers, and environmentalists to solve the crises stemming from climate change, environmental pollution, and other man-made problems.--Pilar Viladas Architectural Record


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