Bruce Mau on The Connection
Bruce Mau (of SMXL and, more recently,
Massive Change fame) was on NPR's The Connection today.
RealAudio stream available at NPR's website. The discussion--and the callers--were interesting. Mau is far-reaching in his cross-disciplinary work (and he brings together a big crowd of innovative thinkers as part of the project), and useful in the very broad scope of the project. He responded to some intelligent notes about cynicism versus optimism, the goals of design, and The Big Picture (without losing site of concrete details).
During the interview, Mau said that being a designer,
does not include the luxury of cynicism. We don't have the opportunity to not act. We have to take action. And, therefore, we have to figure out how to do things better.
Massive Change is an impressive and important project. As the back cover to the book of the same name says, "Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the World" [
amazon link].
Posted by johndan at November 23, 2004 01:17 PM
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