Today´s omnipotent design culture [..] plays a comprehensive role in suggesting and/or setting new values and, hence, inculcating societal change. Whosoever controls the designers – in modern capitalism that role generally falls to business and government – controls to large degree the expressions and evolution of the design culture. A. […]
It appears that as a profession, we are struggling with the fact that design is linked to ever-growing productivity, which in fact cannot form the basis of sustainable development. In the end, the aim is to increase economic growth on a planet with finite resources, which just does not make […]
If there is a critical mass population that can minimize future risk around the big global issues then it is the rich 20 per cent of global population whose total mass and flow of consumption is causing most of the problem. The need for change is clear, it is often […]
Design could be considered as the wise regulation of dynamic elements such as flow, integration, awareness, and value. J. Wood
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. B. Fuller
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. B. Fuller