I make two visits to the hip exhibition of MoMA: Design and the elastic mind. During the first visit I got stuck in the first rooms introducing nanodesign and microengineering. I have the feeling that it’s a preliminary example for what the Hungarian pavilion will show in this year’s Venice Biennial: Architecture modeled after living organisms. A huge playground for technical enthousiasts, with sometimes dull attempts to bring poetry into technologically inspired design. The second visit reveals the weaknesses of the approach: a lot of spectacles making little sense. Media spaces which don’t look much better than just big sets of TV screens rendering an overoptimistic illusion of an united community of the human kind, and similar ideas.
