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Art for everyone: Design and the Elastic Mind Biojewelry made from donated bone cells. Body modification for love. Free-hand sketches drawn in the air, captured by video and instantly materialized. Fabric built 3-dimensionally, layer by layer on a computer. Victimless leather. Health labs on a card in your pocket. Housing and city planning based on six-sided nanoparticle growth patterns. Furniture design that mimics the human body's ability to generate bone to support different areas of pressure. Mapping neighborhoods that yeild higher levels of social injustice and incarceration. Internet dating site data made into individual portraits that can be perfected and changed by the viewer. Prepare to be amazed! I feel it. Everyone feels it. We all talk about it. The speed of things. The information available to us. The constant change in workplace technology and the pressure to keep up. Scale and pace have changed with Google Maps, nanotechnology, information availability, time zone differences. We must adapt and be elastic. Curated by MoMA's Paola Antonelli, Design and the Elastic Mind explores the relationship between science and design, how they reflect each other, and how designers interpret new advances in technology to make products to help us adapt to the forces demanding us to change our human behavior. Charlie Rose interviewed Antonelli on May 7 and I've been thinking about it for the past 24 hours. This interview is part sit-down and part exhibit walk-through with the curator. The MoMA website offers an exhibit preview that is appropriately vast and visually overwhelming. In fact, had I not watched the interview, I would have gotten anxiety just trying to navigate the page. But I think that's the point. It is just as overwhelming to look at as the technology and design the exhibit addresses. Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA | online exhibition | Paola Antonelli speaks from the the TED2007 conference (below):   http://www.tscpl.org/gallery/comments/art_for_everyone_design_and_the_elastic_mind/