At the same time, a rather more sober exploration by Somers was on display in Hornu, Belgium, at Grand Hornu Images, as part of the exhibition "In Progress," which asks 10 design firms to rethink the idea of progress.
In the rich world the idea of progress has become impoverished.
The idea of progress, of moreness, had the force of an ethic.
But in 2011 the idea of progress comes less easily than it did in 2000.
Flipped around by the century that followed, historicism produced the idea of progress.
We have more at stake in reviving the idea of progress.
As we talked the idea of progress became increasingly complicated, ambiguous in value, simultaneously positive and negative.
Might "truth" be a better gauge of what we're trying to do than the idea of progress?
The subtlety of the distinction between the "idea of progress" and the "culture of improvement" is easily lost.
In the West, on the other hand, the idea of progress rests on establishing individual autonomy and liberty.
"The idea of progress is not uncomfortable to us," they declare in the "preamble" to their inaugural issue.
