Redrawing How We’ll Live

What are my hopes for the future of art and design? Wow! What a question at a moment when the future feels like an incredibly fragile conceit. On a good day, I like to imagine that artists, designers, activists, and movers-and-shakers of all kinds will come together and redraw the blueprint for ways we might live. I’d like to think that artists—and I use that term broadly to encompass anyone who is striving to communicate a vision—will be crucial to providing imaginative paradigm shifts and restoring our collective societal health. I’m not a trend forecaster (I’d have better fits), but I suspect we will see more dialogue around the ethical stakes of technology, interface as ideology, etc. I’m scared that mid-2000s glassware furniture is going to make a comeback. What do I think Otis alumnx will do 25 years from now? I’m rooting for a presidential run