Want To Make Change?

Here is something mind-expanding to read today: Massive Change, by Bruce Mau and the Institute Without Boundaries. Mau is a Canadian designer who has held a diverse range of jobs, from college professor to studio owner to creative director of I.D. magazine, and in this book he manages to synthesize the work of a host of disciplines in order to create a kind of manifesto about the way the world might work in the future.

Massive Change discusses everything from transportation to housing to sustainable business to the possibilities of the Internet. Experts from dozens of fields weigh in on the way our lives can be improved, whether from building high speed cross-country Maglev train lines, manipulating global economic policies, or simply planting more bamboo. It's an exhilarating read, if only because it presents an almost infinite scope of what the future of Planet Earth might be - and it's surprisingly optimistic. If nothing else, check out Massive Change for its gorgeous design; somehow it manages to present huge ideas in a very readable way. Look at Bruce Mau's website here.

Text Molly O'Brien