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JUDY WOODRUFF: Question: What
will the future look like?

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That's a big question
posed by a new exhibition
at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art. Eighty

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designers from around
the world have put their
imaginations to work to
address both the anxieties

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and excitement over the
possibilities brought by
innovation and new technology.

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Jeffrey Brown visits the museum
as part of our ongoing arts
and culture series, Canvas.

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JEFFREY BROWN: It's usually the
stuff of sci-fi films, books
and cartoons, but now the future

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is on display at a new
design exhibition at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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KATHY HIESINGER, Philadelphia
Museum of Art: We want people
to find their own paths.

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JEFFREY BROWN: Kathy Hiesinger
co-curator of Designs
for Different Futures.

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KATHY HIESINGER: The idea of
the show is to make us think
of, you know, who we are as

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human beings and how we relate
to each other and to the
world around us, and what that

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means in terms of both
design and the future.

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JEFFREY BROWN: But why
is design a good way
to explore the future?

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KATHY HIESINGER: Design today
now encompasses more than
making chairs or simple physical

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objects. Designers
collaborate, as the show
demonstrates, with scientists,
with anthropologists,

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with sociologists,
biochemists, across all fields.

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JEFFREY BROWN: Divided into 11
sections, the exhibit explores
innovative ideas, often mixing

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high tech with the natural
world, textiles made of seaweed,
artificial organ implants,

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even a robotic baby feeder.

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It offers hope, inspires fear,
and asks ethical questions
about the choices involved.

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How will our clothes be made?
Who will be watching us? And how
might we hide from surveillance?

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How and what will we eat? That
was the focus for Orkan Telhan,
an artist and designer at

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the University of Pennsylvania.

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His display, titled
Breakfast Before Extinction,
offers several futuristic
meals that may or

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may not whet your appetite,
3D-printed pancakes, genetically
modified salmon and, strangest

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of all, steak made from
our own blood cells.

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ORKAN TELHAN, University of
Pennsylvania: In the future,
imagine you receive a kit coming

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to your house, where you can
get a little kit where you
can take your cells from your

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body.

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JEFFREY BROWN: My own cells.

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ORKAN TELHAN: Your own cells,
almost like getting a swab
from your cheek, putting them

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into a little dish, where you
let them incubate for, you know,
six, eight weeks, so that you

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can have your little meat,
which you can consume by
yourself in front of...

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JEFFREY BROWN: And
I'm eating myself?

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ORKAN TELHAN: Yourself. Yes,
you're eating yourself. And
so no animals are harmed.

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JEFFREY BROWN: And why
do I want to do -- why
do I want to do that?

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ORKAN TELHAN: First of all,
it's the most sustainable
way of making food.

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I'm not saying this -- it's
going to be a replacement for
all your protein needs, but

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making you think about, you
know, do we need to kill an
animal to be able to feed this?

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JEFFREY BROWN: Scarcity and
diminished resources are coming,
he says. It's up to us to make

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some difficult choices.

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ORKAN TELHAN: This is not
about, oh, this is a solution
for it. But maybe we can, you

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know, change certain things, and
then maybe avoid this future.

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JEFFREY BROWN: The exhibition's
top celebrity was found in
the jobs section, where Quori,

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a robot designed by a team
including architect Simon Kim
mimics basic human movement.

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Kim says an enormous amount
of thinking goes into the look
and feel of the robot and how

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that will impact our
interactions with it.

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SIMON KIM, University of
Pennsylvania: It is meant to be
a genderless robot. So there's

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great pains in the design
to maintain the kind of not
only male or female traits.

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JEFFREY BROWN: Why is that?

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SIMON KIM: It's a large
issue in the human-robot
interaction community.

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So, if it's taller than us,
if it's bigger than us, if it
looks aggressive, these are

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things that, in our perception,
turn us away from the robot,
whereas the robot is meant

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to be helpful. We might
not engage at all.

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JEFFREY BROWN: Here, Quori
performs simple gestures, but
it can be programmed to do more,

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including things that
could raise fears of the
machine's power over us.

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SIMON KIM: So, it takes more
than just smart engineering
or smart design, but it's also

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going to take, you
know, somebody who can
work psychologically
to make sure that the

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rules for which we hope these
robots occupy work with us,
so that we're not turned off,

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nor do we think so negatively
about the robot that we don't
assign it any role at all.

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JEFFREY BROWN: The exhibition
includes a futures therapy lab,
where visitors can digest and

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contemplate their experience.

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Emily Schreiner is a
curator for public programs.

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EMILY SCHREINER, Philadelphia
Museum of Art: A lot of people
come in with their eyes really

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wide. They have just seen a lot.
They have experienced a lot.

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But this is a space that
has people and paper and
books, and that has been
sort of a hyper-analog

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counterpoint to a very dizzying
perspective of the future.

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JEFFREY BROWN: People gather
in the lab to read from the
crowdsourced library, make art,

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and listen to designers
talk about their work.

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Wendy Rosenfield felt
a range of emotions.

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WENDY ROSENFIELD, Visitor: It
actually gave me a little bit
of anxiety walking through,

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just like how quickly
everything's changing
and how much technology
and the development

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of technology even
plays into that.

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JEFFREY BROWN: Curators hope
to inspire visitors to reflect
on the human condition, how we

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can design better solutions, and
also recognize our own agency.

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KATHY HIESINGER: In
today's climate, political,
environmental, the
present seems to be very

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urgent. And making decisions
that will affect the future seem
more important now than ever.

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JEFFREY BROWN: In a
show like this allows
us to think about that.

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KATHY HIESINGER: I hope so.
And I think there are many
projects here that show what can

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be done or speculate about
where we could go in the future.

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JEFFREY BROWN: The exhibition
Designs for Different Futures
is here through March 8,

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before traveling to
Minneapolis and Chicago.

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For the "PBS NewsHour,"
I'm Jeffrey Brown at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: And some
of it, we have never
thought about before.