3/29/2019

BROKEN NATURE : HUMAN SURVIVAL


GIVEN the state of the natural world - catastrophic wildfires, collapsing ice shelves - it's hardly surprising that Paola Antonelli chose.................

''Broken Nature : Design  Takes on Human Survival'' as the title and focus of exhibition she is curating for the Triennale de Milano.

Nor is it a surprise that Ms. Antonneli, the longtime senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has pulled together a provocative  list of some 100 design projects that took on pressing problems, from the tangible  [recycling, oil spills, tropical island flooding]  to the abstract-

[Poverty  -   Political strife  -  Racism] 
There was even a novel way to grow clothes on Mars.

But what is surprising is the importance of Ms. Antoinelli has put on each project having a constructive and engaging aesthetic.

''I firmly believe that beauty is a social good,'' said Ms. Antonelli, who took a break from planning the March 1 to Sept 1 exhibition  [and a related symposium, scheduled for later] to sit for a conversation about design and disaster.

Question : The timing couldn't be better  for a show like the one you have planned. Everyday the natural world seems less like Eden and more like Mars, as if survival is what the future is going to boil down to   -if we are lucky But then, if you  are working in design, how could you not be focused on this?

Yes. How can you not work on it, how can you not think of it, how can you not believe in it? And still there are people that do. It's   unbelievable   but   it's happened  before in history. And it's always the same.

You don't do anything, and you stay in denial until it's too late, the next species comes along and says, ''Boy, were they dumb.''

The publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks author and researcher David Colman.

GIVEN the state of the natural world - catastrophic wildfires, collapsing ice shelves - it's hardly surprising that Paola Antonelli chose ''Broken Nature : Design  Takes on Human Survival''

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