Foreword

The common view of design sees in it a way of reacting to our problems. To the question, “What are the boundaries of design?” Charles Eames asked in return, “What are the boundaries of problems?” Another view – taken in many of the works presented here – sees design as a response to opportunities. And never have opportunities been more abundant. “We are as gods,” declared Stewart Brand, “and might as well get good at it.” Or, as Bruce Mau has more recently framed it, “Now that we can do anything, what will we do?”