Designs For Different Futures
Philadelphia Museum of Art. October 27, 2019 – March 8, 2020
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Philadelphia Museum of Art. October 27, 2019 – March 8, 2020
Selected press:
New York Times, Design Shows Take on the Future. And It’s Not Pretty
WHYY, Art Museum exhibits designs for utopian and dystopian futures
designboom, Exhibtion explores how designers are shaping the future at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Architectural Digest, This exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases incredible futuristic ideas
core77, visual design award for the DfDF catalog
Collab Journal, Keeping up with Designs for Different Futures
Fine Print Magazine, Designing Different Futures
Designs for Different Futures records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly one hundred contemporary examples—from wearable objects to urban infrastructure—this exhibtion interrogates attitudes toward technology, consumption, beauty, and social and environmental challenges.
The projects examined include a typeface unreadable by text-scanning software, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a dress incorporating the sound-wave patterns of birds in flight, a shelter for cricket farming, and a speculative prosthetics catalogue for the “post-human.”
In the related book, commissioned essays and interviews from figures such as Francis Kéré, Bruno Latour, Neri Oxman, and Danielle Wood give voice to issues faced in futures near and far and include perspectives ranging from historical visions of the future to the use of biological materials in production processes.
New York Times, Design Shows Take on the Future. And It’s Not Pretty
WHYY, Art Museum exhibits designs for utopian and dystopian futures
designboom, Exhibtion explores how designers are shaping the future at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Architectural Digest, This exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases incredible futuristic ideas
core77, visual design award for the DfDF catalog
Collab Journal, Keeping up with Designs for Different Futures
Fine Print Magazine, Designing Different Futures
Designs for Different Futures records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly one hundred contemporary examples—from wearable objects to urban infrastructure—this exhibtion interrogates attitudes toward technology, consumption, beauty, and social and environmental challenges.
The projects examined include a typeface unreadable by text-scanning software, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a dress incorporating the sound-wave patterns of birds in flight, a shelter for cricket farming, and a speculative prosthetics catalogue for the “post-human.”
In the related book, commissioned essays and interviews from figures such as Francis Kéré, Bruno Latour, Neri Oxman, and Danielle Wood give voice to issues faced in futures near and far and include perspectives ranging from historical visions of the future to the use of biological materials in production processes.