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Wednesday, July 3, 2002
 

The Viridian Design Movement and the "crisis of the invisible"


This article resonates with my belief that we must, and can, address the "crisis of the invisible"

Hacking Environmental Awareness:  The Viridian Design Movement
by Viridian fellow-traveler Jon Lebkowsky

In a seminal speech delivered 9/17/98 as a part of a ZDNet/Arthur Andersen "Next 20 Years" event, [Bruce] Sterling said:

The Greenhouse effect is only partly a political problem. At its core, it's a design problem. A consumer problem. And maybe most of all, it's an artistic problem. A problem of sensibility.

Change what people see. Change how they see. That's why I consider this basically an artistic problem. The tools for this are at hand. The eighties were a decade of chips and computation. The nineties -- a decade of lasers, bandwidth, and communication. The next twenty years -- I hope they will be about sensors and perception. Cheap, ubiquitous sensors that make the invisible visible. If you can leverage that new awareness, you can drive the whole culture, you can change people inside and out. Suddenly they will realize that their lives are full of unmet demands.

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To receive Bruce Sterling's Viridian notes via email, send an email request to bruces@well.com. To learn more about the Viridian Design Movement, surf the official Viridian web site at http:// www.viridiandesign.org. For more by/about the author, see http:// www.weblogsky.com


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