Fear and Love ─ Reactions to a Complex World: The Design Museum

To accompany The Design Museum's opening exhibition, which explores the anxiety and optimism inherent in contemporary design

Fear and Love, published to accompany the major exhibition that will open the Design Museum's highly anticipated new home in Kensington, London, examines the role of design in the twenty-first century. It proposes that, in a rapidly changing world, design is defined by both anxiety and optimism. Organized by five key themes - Network, Empathy, Body, Earth and Periphery - the book explores design's relationship to emotive issues. Eleven leading figures from across the spectrum of design provide a wide-ranging set of attitudes to design in our times: Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation, OMA, Madeline Gannon, Metahaven, Hussein Chalayan, Neri Oxman, Christien Meindertsma, Ma Ke, Kenya Hara, Arquitectura Expandida and Rural Urban Framework.

Justin McGuirk is a writer and curator based in London. He is the chief curator at the Design Museum and the head of Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven. He has been the director of Strelka Press, the design critic of The Guardian, and the editor of Icon magazine. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition he curated with Urban Think Tank. His book Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture is published by Verso. Gonzalo Herrero Delicado is an architect and Assistant Curator at the Design Museum in London. Previously, he was Curator at The Architecture Foundation and curated a wide range of projects in partnership with the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barbican, Tate and Serpentine Galleries, amongst others. His writings have been published in Domus, Abitare, Blueprint and A10.