Skip to content
Click on cover to enlarge

Imagining the Future

«  page 4 of 4  »

Why the cynics are wrong

by Bruce Mau

Published in the December/January 2007 issue.  » BUY ISSUE     

          Facebook         Stumble      Get The Walrus on your Blackberry or Windows Mobile        RSS



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.

Comments (1 comments)

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

Comment on this article


Will not be displayed on the site

Submit a comment online

Submit a letter to the Editor


    Cancel

The Walrus E-Newsletter

Online exclusives, events, offers:
get news of everything Walrus.