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Why design now? As issues of ecology and sustainable living
continue to gain in urgency and topicality, design has come to the
forefront of the arts as the discipline best equipped to meet
today's challenges. Designers around the world are rising to this
clarion call by creating products, buildings, landscapes, messages
and more that address important social and ecological problems. Why
Design Now? National Design Triennial accompanies the fourth
installation in Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's acclaimed
National Design Triennial exhibition series. Designed by Michael
Bierut, a partner in the award-winning design firm Pentagram, Why
Design Now? is the first Triennial book to be truly international
in reach, with 134 designers and projects in more than 44
countries. With eight essays by four Cooper-Hewitt curators,
project profiles and more than 350 color illustrations, many of
which have never been published before, Why Design Now? offers a
glimpse into contemporary innovation, and an up-to-the-minute
survey of what progressive designers, engineers, entrepreneurs and
citizens are doing in diverse fields and at different scales. Many
of the featured works have influenced other designers by proposing
new methodologies or by pioneering new techniques; also included
are practical solutions already being implemented as well as
experimental ideas designed to inspire further research. Each of
the selected works--from a soil-powered table lamp to a
post-petroleum urban utopia--celebrates the transformative power of
design.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a timeless
story about apocalyptic cycles, conflicts and similarities between
religion and science, religious ethics and secular ethics, sin and
redemption, myth and preternatural innocence. Canticle is a very
religious story about a monastery dedicated to preserving
scientific knowledge from the time before nuclear war which
devastated the world and reduced humanity to a pre-technological
civilization. The Catholic Church and this monastery are portrayed
as a bastion of civilization amidst barbarians and a light of faith
amidst atheism. Unfortunately, humanity destroys the Earth once
again, but Miller ends with two beacons of hope: a starship headed
for the unknown to help humanity begin again and the
preternaturally innocent Rachel who portends a future for similarly
innocent human beings repopulating the Earth. Thus, faith
ultimately triumphs over atheism even in the midst of almost total
catastrophe.
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