Two shifts in relationship between culture and technology inform my thinking about the contemporary state of imagination and trust at the ground level. Both involve the ever more intimate co-mingling of humans with machines. The first is the emergence of cobotics as a pivot point within conventional robotics, particularly as robots move out into the built environment and become entangled with our everyday lives. For millennia humans have imagined the robotic according to a substitution…
 
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Forthcoming this fall with Inventory Books is the first English translation of Bruno Munari’s 1967 volume Fantasy – Invention, Creativity, and Imagination in Visual Communication. Designed by IN-FO.CO, the edition meticulously mirrors the layout and typography of the Italian original –its graphic flavor and texture– and is accompanied by a critical apparatus as well as by an introductory essay. I am responsible for the translation, the notes, and accompanying essay. Fantasy is perhaps the richest…
 
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