Design for a living world
Design for a living world
May 14 2009 – January 4 2010
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York
The "Design for a living world" exhibition at New York’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum focuses designers’ attention on the choice of sustainable natural materials.
Nature Conservancy, an organisation for the protection of land and water all over the world, asked 10 designers to create objects from natural resources to reveal the life cycle of the materials used.
The result is an ecological collection whose origins are certified by the territorial surveillance of the Nature Conservancy, now on display at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York in the exhibition "Design for a living world".
The designers present, and the places where they worked on their projects, are: Yves Behar/Costa Rica; Stephen Burks/Australia; Hella Jongerius/Mexico; Maya Lin/Maine; Christien Meindertsma/Idaho; Isaac Mizrahi/Alaska; Abbott Miller/Bolivia;
Ted Muehling/Micronesia; Kate Spade/Bolivia; and Ezri Tarazi/China.
The exhibition includes prototypes, designs and finished products of interest to functional and aesthetic-expressive research.
The challenge inspires us "to think about the products we use - where they come from, how they are made and what the impacts are on our planet and on local communities", says Nature Conservancy president Mark Tercek.
May 14, 2009-January 4, 2010
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Presented by Abbott Miller, graphic designer, and Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design at Cooper Hewitt.
Links:
www.cooperhewitt.org
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