The exhibition will feature more than twenty artists and designers – including Ray and Charles Eames, Harmut Esslinger, and Lisa Krohn, amongst others – that traced the history of design since the digital revolution. Design never works alone, and in order to be reliable and to have an impact in society, it has to be necessarily connected to all other fields, from human and social issues to ecology, politics and technology – especially the latter, since it’s turning modern consumers into digital users, changing the paradigm of (almost) everything.

A poster by Sheila Levrant de Brettville for the California Institute of the Arts exhibited states that “If the designer is to make a deliberate contribution to society, he must be able to integrate all he can learn about behavior and resources, ecology and human needs; taste and style just aren’t enough”, which pretty much sums it up. Together with it you’ll find the Solo Drone by Jason Short, a North Face tent that empowered the individual, and Arthur Espenet Carpenter’s Wishbone Chair.