Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Future Design looks at the very cutting edge of technology and its impact on everyday life, from radical projections for shaping the planet over the next thousand years to changes taking place right on the end of your street tomorrow. Examining real objects including a DNA sequencer, the Facebook drone, a 3D printer that works in space, and UC Berkeley's Laundry Robot, this book explores the fears, hopes, and dreams embedded in each, the designers motivated to create them, and the consumers using or avoiding them.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the V&A in London, experts from different fields examine and debate diverging paths of future development in relation to the body, the home, the everyday, the city, governance, the planet, the universe, and the afterlife.
Synopsis
Design plays an ever-increasing role in every aspect of our future. From our DNA to the cosmos, from our planet to our desks, our futures will be mapped by the objects we use and the people who build them. This book explores the diverse paths of future development, from corporate products to alternative bottom-up strategies imagined by individuals or small groups.
Looking at real objects being developed today--including a UAV (or drone) created by Facebook designed to beam the internet from space, to a robot developed by UC Berkeley that will do laundry--expert authors show how design and technology impact every level of life, from sub-microscopic aspects of the human body to the entire planet. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, it asks how we can use technology to shape the future of our world. The staggering developments featured here are happening now, and although many seem to be straight out of science fiction, the fact is that we have the opportunity to learn about each one and have a say in shaping our own futures.
The book accompanies an exhibition on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 19 - November 4, 2018
Synopsis
What makes us human?
We are all connected, but do we feel lonely?
Does democracy still work?
Are cities for everyone?
Should the planet be a design project?
If Mars is the answer, what is the question?
Who wants to live forever?
The world of tomorrow is shaped by emerging design and the technology of today. Bringing together a range of objects either newly released or in development, The Future Starts Here begins to imagine where our society might be headed. Cute but intelligent robots, massive unmanned aircraft that deliver internet access, crowdfunded buildings, tools printed in space, mysterious black boxes that understand human genetic codes--how can these objects affect the way we live, learn, and love? And how are they challenging our understanding of what it means to be an individual, a citizen, a crowd, or a species?
With contributions from Arjun Appadurai, Zara Arshad, Teju Cole, Anne Galloway, Corinna Gardner, Rory Hyde, Jennifer Kabat, Alex Kalman, Natalie D. Kane, Kieran Long, Justin McGuirk, An Xiao Mina, Richard Moyes, Mariana Pestana, Susan Schuppli, and Leanne Shapton, this exciting book accompanies an exhibition on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 12 - November 4, 2018.