Over the past twenty-five years, in tandem with the introduction of the personal computer, the Internet, and wireless technology, we have experienced dramatic changes in our relationships with time, space, the physical nature of objects, and our own essence as individuals.
"Design and the Elastic Mind" focuses on the responses of designers to the momentous advances in technology, science, and social mores that have characterized the last quarter-century and presents their projects that convert these developments into useful concepts and objects- from nanodevices to full-size vehicles, home appliances to building facades, pragmatic solutions to provocations.
Designed by Irma Boom, this book features essays by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Moma; design critic and historian Hugh Aldersey-Williams; visualization design expert Peter Hall; and nanophysicist Ted Sargent.