Design, the future and the human spirit

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Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 4-15

  Margolin, Victor ^a  

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EID: 34548247209     PISSN: 07479360     EISSN: 15314790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/desi.2007.23.3.4     Document Type: Article

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1. There have been noble efforts such as the ICSID "Humane Village" Congress in Toronto in 1997, with inspiring words by the keynote speakers (Paul Hawken, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and others) but, in the end, the congress left only a modest legacy of ideas for building a constructive future.
2. Tomás Maldonado, Design, Nature, and Revolution. Translated from the Italian by Mario Domandi (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 4.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., 74
5. See Victor Margolin, "The Designer as Producer: Working Outside Mainstream Manufacturing" in Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility, Stephen Heller and Veronique Vienne, eds. (New York: Allworth Press, 2003).
6. The term "geopolitics," first used in 1899, has multiple and varied meanings. See Gearóid Ó Tuathail, "Problematizing Geopolitics: Survey, Statesmanship and Strategy," Transactions of the British Institute of Geographers 19(1994): 259-272.
7. See Gui Bonsiepe, El Diseño de la Periferia: Debates y Experiencias (Mexico City: GG Diseño, 1985) and Bonsiepe, "Developing Countries: Awareness of Design and the Peripheral Condition" in History of Design: 1919-1990 The Dominion of Design (Milan: Electa, 1991).
8. See, for example, the "Design Singapore Initiative," which can be downloaded from www.designlnghub.org.
9. Lester R. Brown, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (New York and London: Norton, 2001), 3.
10. Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener, The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years. Introduction by Daniel Bell. (New York; Macmillan, 1967), 348.
11. Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988).
12. Kevin Kelly, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines (London: Fourth Estate, 1994).
13. Ibid., 5.
14. Bill Joy, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us," Wired 8:4 (April 2000): 262.
15. Bruce Mau and the Institute Without Boundaries, Massive Change (London; Phaidon, 2004), 19.
16. For a trenchant critique of the Massive Change project, see David Stairs, "Bruce Mau and the Apotheosis of Data," on Stairs's Website "Design - Altruism - Project": www.design-altruism-project.org/? p=22.
17. Curitiba came to international attention at the time of the Rio summit in 1992. See the section on Curitiba in Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution {New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1999), 288-308.
18. Kahn and Wiener, The Year 2000, 3.
19. Ibid., 2.
20. Jeffrey Rosen, "The Future Is Not the Present," The New York Times Magazine (August 28, 2005), n.p. The article can be downloaded from: www.nytimes.com.
21. Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things (London: MIT Press, 2005), 93.
22. Explanations about the RFID chip and its potential applications can be found on the Website of the VeriChip Corporation: www.verichip.com.
23. See Victor Margolin, "The Liberation of Ethics" in Clive Dilnot, Ethics? Design? [Archeworks Papers 1 no. 2] (Chicago: Archeworks, 2005), 160.