Innovation / Design
Scent as Design
Design / by / March 23, 2010
This week, scientists, designers, and artists will gather in New York to discuss how our lives could be transformed by recognizing scent as design.
Now In Design
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Living in a Material World
Scientists and designers join forces at an unusual consultancy, bringing technical savvy to assist anyone in search of the right material—from faux fur to green concrete.
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Our Adapting Future
Current developments in autonomous, biological, and evolutionary robotics will have a profound impact on the future of interactive and dynamic architectural space.
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Designing Responsible Behavior
We visit the somewhat chaotic desk of an industrial designer who is leveraging the power of design to convince people to live greener lives.
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Building Without Walls
A new breed of architectural objects, inspired by theoretical science, is changing how we think about building and what counts as art.
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A New Map for Design
As the focus of design shifts from the production of finite goods to a practice of experimentation, ideas take precedence over products.
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An Icon of Sustainability
Since opening last September in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences has fast become an icon of architecture for the eco era.
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The Dymaxion Tomorrow
A city-wide vehicle sharing program, a latrine block that treats sewage on-site, and bicycles that double as ambulances take top honors in the Buckminster Fuller Design Challenge.
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Tissue-Engineered Art
MoMA design and architecture curator Paola Antonelli guides us through experimental designs that are both manufactured and living, and which test both our aesthetic and ethical sensibilities.
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Design and Being Just
At some point during the show, VL started growing too fast. It was time to stop it. But did that mean killing it?
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Designing the Human Mind
[Video] Is it possible to create a complete model of the human brain? Henry Markram explains that it will to take a computer 20,000 times more powerful than any that exists today.
Innovation
Greener Pastures
Dominant theory says that desertification is caused by overgrazing. Operation Hope, winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, has upended this idea—restoring degraded African grasslands into lush, green pasture.
Q&A
Dynamic by Design
Jessica Banks and Andrew Laska, the co-founders of the design firm RockPaperRobot, are using science and technology to change the meaning of “furniture.”
Slideshow
The Scent of Design
Commissioned by HEADSPACE, five designers—dubbed “accidental perfumers”—joined bona fide scent experts to explore the intersection of creativity and smell.
Slideshow
The Science of Stuff
A visual tour of the colorful, the strange, and the super-strong in the Material ConneXion library, where new forms of cloth, concrete, metal, and more line the walls.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
