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"A heavily illustrated book that examines the confluence of art, science, and technology and provides lessons from each that are applicable to leaders and creative professionals across multiple domains"--
About the author
Julio Mario Ottino is an academic thought leader, author, artist, and internationally recognized researcher whose work has been featured in
Nature,
Science, and
Scientific American. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the founding Codirector of Northwestern University’s Institute on Complex Systems.
Bruce Mau is a designer, artist, entrepreneur, author, and educator. He has designed and coauthored books with, among others, Rem Koolhaas (
S,M,L,XL). For many years, he designed all of the books published by Zone Books, the Getty Research Institute, and the Gagosian Gallery.
Summary
Why today’s complex problems demand a radically new way of thinking—one in which art, technology, and science converge.
Today’s complex problems demand a radically new way of thinking—one in which art, technology, and science converge to expand our creativity and augment our insight. Creativity must be combined with the ability to execute; the innovators of the future will have to understand this balance and manage such complexities as climate change and pandemics. The place of this convergence is the Nexus. In this provocative and visually striking book, Julio Mario Ottino and Bruce Mau offer a guide for navigating the intersections of art, technology, and science.
The Nexus brings together word and image to prepare us—individuals and organizations alike—for the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Compelling historic examples illuminate the present, from the Renaissance, when the domains were one, to the twentieth century, with intense, collective creative outpourings from places as different as the Bauhaus and Bell Labs. Leaders must be able to grasp simplicity in complexity and complexity in simplicity—and embrace the powerful idea of complementarity, where opposing extremes coexist and our thinking expands. Innovation needs more than managing. Managers use maps; leaders develop compasses.
