The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art: Design and the Elastic Mind

I was in New York recently to see this fascinating exhibit before it moved on, and I was not let down. Science, knowledge, and technological progress are cultural tools available to us all, and they grow exponentially. The more science we know, the more doors to knowledge are open to us. The more technology we innovate, the more ways we can recombine it into solutions adapted to every new problem that emerges.

This Wall of Photovoltaic Leaves harnesess sun energy with the leave surfaces and wind energy as the leaves flutter

View the entire flickr set here.

Even if you can’t check out the exhibit in person consider buying the book, which includes just about all of the exhibits and then some, with great discussion of each piece. Or you can check out the online exhibition, which is a delightful presentation in and of itself.

Note: The Victimless Leather display from the exhibit featured a tiny leather jacket grown from mouse stem cells. Unfortunately it had to be euthanized for growing to big for its display. Fascinating.