Imagining the Future
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Why the cynics are wrong
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The media is our siren and our lullaby. In a neverending cycle, it shakes us up, alerts us to danger, then puts us back to sleep, reassured that someone else is taking care of things.
But what we need to be reminded of is our own potential. We have the power to make change on a global scale, to solve the problems we are facing today. We have the means to make the things we love more intelligent and more delightful. We have the imagination and the ability to invent new ways of sustainable living in advanced, courageous, and open societies.
All we need is the optimism to realize it.
Bruce Mau has been using design as an instrument of change for more than twenty years. He is the founder of the Institute without Boundaries and creative director of Bruce Mau Design, Inc., based in Toronto. Mau's Massive Change exhibit is showing at the Museum of Contemporary art Chicago until December 31.
For more on this and other articles in the December/January 2007 issue, click here.
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Libby Davy: I guess you have seen David Suzuki's book Good News for a Change... we just HAD to buy it. September 30, 2007 14:50 EST