On October 7, the Museum of Craft and Design opened Designing Peace, an exhibition organized by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, that explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace. This exhibition features design projects from around the world that look at ways to create and sustain more durable peaceful interactions from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation.
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What does it mean to live in a “post-global” world? Posing this question – and also answering it – is a new exhibition presented by Lisbon’s MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), named
X is Not a Small Country – Unravelling the Post-Global Era. Curated by Aric Chen alongside designer, curator and educator Martina Muzi, the show compiles nine large-scale installations from international practitioners spanning design, architecture and art. All of which explore a post-global landscape, providing examples of how this new world might look and function.
It’s a vast, detailed and oftentimes dizzying display of the current state of affairs. Previously, the rapid rise in globalisation had accelerated us into new and bountiful territories. Then after Brexit, trade wars, refugee crises and rising nationalism, we were faced with a new hurdle: a pandemic. Travel was disrupted and many switched to digital communications and exchanges; thu