A year ago I told myself that social design would thrive in reverse proportion to the stock market. As soon as the Dow hit 10,000, I suspected, designers would abandon their humanitarian projects and resume work on $6,000 pendants. So much for the wisdom of a cynic. The Dow now gyrates above 10,600 and social design is thriving. Where's the evidence? In May the Cooper-Hewitt will show more than 100 do-gooder designs in its National Design Triennial. The Cooper-Hewitt is a branch of the Smithsonian, which gives the show more weight than it otherwise might have.
The Cooper-Hewitt helped put social design on the map three years ago with "Design For The Other 90%," a show of water filters, low-tech cooking devices and other products for the developing world. It was an early landmark in design's recent shift from consumerism to social causes.
Last year, in "Design For A Living World," the Cooper-Hewitt and The...
The Cooper-Hewitt helped put social design on the map three years ago with "Design For The Other 90%," a show of water filters, low-tech cooking devices and other products for the developing world. It was an early landmark in design's recent shift from consumerism to social causes.
Last year, in "Design For A Living World," the Cooper-Hewitt and The...
- 1/11/2010
- by Michael Cannell
- Fast Company
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