The Massive Change Project

Bruce Mau Design and the Institute without Boundaries
2003–present
www.massivechange.com

Massive Change is an international project that maps the new capacity, power and promise of design.

The first project of the Institute without Boundaries (IwB), Massive Change explores paradigm-shifting events, ideas, and people, investigating the capacities and ethical dilemmas of design in manufacturing, transportation, urbanism, warfare, energy, markets, materials, the image, information, even life itself.

To date Massive Change has taken the form of a traveling exhibition, a book, public events, a radio program, an online discussion forum, and more. For details please see below.

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Massive Change:
The Future of Global Design

A exhibition and tour by Bruce Mau Design and the Institute without Boundaries, commissioned and organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery
2004–present
VAG Web site

Press release PDF

Massive Change book

By Bruce Mau with Jennifer Leonard and the Institute without Boundaries

Hardcover, 240 pages
Phaidon Press
ISBN 0-7148-4401-2
2004
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Publisher’s description:
“Massive Change is a modern illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. The book is a part of a broader research project ... intended to provoke debate and discussion about the future of design culture, broadly defined as the ‘familiar objects and techniques that are transforming our lives.’”

www.massivechange.com

Institute without Boundaries

2003–present
www.massivechange.com

MC Exhibition Audio Guide

Institute without Boundaries
2004

Poster Project for Utopia Station

Institute without Boundaries
2003

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In 2003 the Institute without Boudaries team responded to a commission from curators Molly Nesbitt, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Rirkrit Tiravanija who organized Utopia Station for the Venice Biennale that year. The result was a series of posters that speaks to the utopian possibilities for design. The posters were exhibited throughout Venice along with other works from more than a hundred contributors.