Like the major exhibition it accompanies, Design and the Elastic Mind focuses on the ability of designers to grasp momentous advances in technology, science and human behavior and convert those changes into objects and systems that people can understand and use. Included projects range from nanodevices to vehicles, appliances to interfaces and building facades, pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. Essays by design experts and a nanophysicist explore the dynamic relationship between design and science. Includes 250 color illustrations.