Regulations, restrictions, laws, zoning, codes, and other enforceable mandates impact our environment, buildings, products, and behavior. Many of these controls are used to good effect, but some rules, meant to protect, restrict positive outcomes and behaviors. The Unintended Consequences exhibition seeks to suggest creative alternatives and explore the value of design thinking across the physical, social, and cultural landscape.

Contributors to the exhibition include College of Design faculty and doctoral students and members of the professional and business community committed to improving the world through thoughtful design and planning.

Unintended Consequences is a companion exhibition with the ASU Art Museum's New American City exhibition, which opens September 9.

The College of Design is also hosting a noontime lecture series, In Dialogue with the Desert, in conjunction with the Unintended Consequences exhibition.

Unintended Consequences is sponsored by the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) and the College of Design.
 

For more information about lectures and events for the College of Design, visit design.asu.edu.