The Plenitude
Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff
$54.07
- Paperback
136 pages
- Release Date
22 June 2021
Summary
Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering- how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself.
We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound-composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also cre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543798 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262543796 |
| Author: | Rich Gold, John Maeda |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Release Date: | 22 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm |
| Series: | Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life |
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Critics Review
…a wonderful read if you have any interest at all in art or science or design or engineering or creativity or innovation or the morality of our material culture or managing any of those people or processes…Some books are so good that you know you’ll read them again, and you know this by the time you finish. With this book, I knew by page 25.–Computerworld–
Gold displays casual insights such as illustrating the sheer abundance of the plenitude by pointing out the variety of shirts in an audience and the work that went into each and pads this very skinny book with his own goofy cartoons. The result is a fun splash in some of the important ideas behind modern consumption.
–Publisher’s Weekly–Gold’s nimble mind unpacks the contradictions and consequences of our stuff-clotted world, quoting a friend’s warning: ‘We should be careful to make the world we actually want to live in.’ This is not the traditional anti-materialist rant and that helps make it a valuable rumination on a prevailing 21st-century condition.
–The Morning News–This little book, with its simple logic and language and unforgettable, whimsical drawings, will change the way its readers look at the world around them.
–Susan Salter Reynolds, LA Times–About The Author
Rich Gold
Rich Gold (1950-2003) was an artist, composer, designer, inventor, lecturer, and writer. Equally at home in the worlds of avant-garde art, academia, and business, he worked at various times for Sega, Mattel, and Xerox PARC.
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