Recently at the DLD (Digital Life Design) conference in Munich, a panel consisting of high profile designers spoke about the future of organic design. Definitely worth the time.
The panelists:
Paola Antonelli
"Paola Antonelli joined The Museum of Modern Art in 1994 and is a Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. Her first exhibition for MoMA, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995), was followed by Thresholds: Contemporary Design from the Netherlands (1996), Achille Castiglioni: Design! (1997-98), and Projects 66: Campana/Ingo Maurer (1999), Open Ends and Matter (September 2000-February 2001), Workspheres (February-April, 2001), Humble Masterpieces (July-September, 2004), and SAFE: Design Takes On Risk (October 2005-January 2006). Her upcoming Design and the Elastic Mind, an exhibition on science, design, and innovation, will open at MoMA on February 24, 2008."Taken from the official dld website.
Ross Lovegrove
"Ross Lovegrove is a designer and visionary who's work is considered to be at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of our three dimensional World. " Taken from the official dld website.
Arturo Vittory
"Arturo Vittori is an Italian architect is co-founder of the research and design studio Architecture and Vision (AV). After graduating from the University of Florence, he collaborated with Santiago Calatrava, Jean Nouvel and Francis Design on a variety of architectural projects and with Future
Systems and Anish Kapoor on the subway station in Naples." Taken from the official dld website.
Andreas Vogler
"Andreas Vogler is a Swiss architect and co-founder of the research and design studio Architecture and Vision (AV). He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He collaborated with Richard Horden in London and at the Technical University of Munich." Taken from the official dld website.
The Future of Organic Design @ dld 09 (Panel with Paola Antonelli,Ross Lovegrove,Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler). Visit the official dld website here.
