When Design Harms Instead Of Helps

Bruce Nussbaum's firsthand account of how a celebrated agro-design went terribly wrong. This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Design and Violence, edited by Paola Antonelli, Jamer Hunt, and Michelle Fisher and published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The book is based on an interactive online experiment launched by MoMA in 2013.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

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