Sunday, May 27, 2007

yesterday afternoon, i went to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Andrew Carnegie's old home, to see the exhibit, Design for the Other 90%. the juxtaposition between the "most modest, simple...home" (as Carnegie's request for his entire-block retirement mansion on fifth avenue) and the garden's third world country implementations -- not to mention similarly, between the gift shop and the exhibit -- was astoundingly ironic and repeatedly notable.

coinciding with PRI's The World: Technology, i saw the exact solar-paneled Portable Light offered to the nomadic Huichol people from Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains. also caught a glimpse of the One Laptop Per Child project's green laptops with its tiny keys for tiny fingers. several more amazing things to see in the garden. if you're in the city, make a trip to the exhibit.
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