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Sustainable design, which balances environmental, social, economic and aesthetic concerns, has the potential to transform everyday life and is already reshaping the fields of architecture and product design. Beyond Green explores how this design philosophy resonates with an emerging generation of international artists who combine a fresh aesthetic sensibility with a constructively critical approach to the production, dissemination and display of art. While ‘green’ architecture has been widely explored, this is one of the first exhibitions to focus exclusively on sustainability in art and design.”

Now, OK, it’s over. The fantastic feeling when you look at such images is you’re immensely inspired by these pictures that you just want to get out of the exhibition, go scuba dive into some trash cans, take everything back home and start design a smart and eco-friendly and aesthetic thing.

But before you do that, just bear in mind that if sustainable design could now be showed in a traditional museum, this means the concept is no longer emerging. Sustainable design is already the playground of a bunch of designers.

The exhibition is currently held in the Museum of Arts&Design, in New York City, and will open to public until May 7, 2006.


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