There's a design revolution coming out of North America. It dares to imagine the welfare of the entire human race.
One of the most important things we did was take the visual out of design.
If you said to me, ''Make something,'' I would say, ''What?'' I wouldn't have the foggiest idea of what to do.
Eight percent of Americans live in mobile homes, but I have yet to meet a mobile-home architect. The entire field of architecture turns away from it, because it's mass production.
Design has emerged as one of the world痴 most important forces and nature itself has fallen to the regime of design. Design has placed us at the beginning of a new, unprecedented period of human possibility where all economies and ecologies are becoming totally global, relational, and interconnected and there exists one complex network of dominion over the forces of nature.
It is also multi-modal, with an international exhibition, a book, public events, a radio program, an online forum and a film project. The website is divided into sections: Urbanization, Manufacturing, Movement, Health & Living, Energy, Markets, Materials, The Image, Information, The Military, Wealth & Politics. Each section is prefaced by a brief "statement," such as:
The enormous changes we have instigated have the potential to create wealth on an order of magnitude the world has never seen. They are part of a global movement that is at the heart of our project � the welfare of the entire human race as a practical objective. Massive Change is a story about distributed problem solving, global cooperation, generosity, openness, and connectedness.
Design and its capacities promise to make this century a new era of wealth, worldwide. When we say wealth we don稚 mean strictly monetary wealth, but rather the wealth of life, the wealth of liberty and health, the wealth of human thought and action, the collective wealth of common language and culture.
The statements are followed by a series of posts, some from "editors" and soem from the public. In these early stages, they mostly seem to be announcements of related projects, etc. and it remains to see whether or what kind of debate the project will engender on the website.
