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Should we ditch sustainability?
For example, fast fashion has become a problem in recent years. So companies have begun creating “tomorrow’s solution” with responsible manufacturing practices, sustainable materials use, and business models that promote a circular economy.
Category Pirates, Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, Katrina Kirsch, • The 22 Laws of Category Design
Importantly, this shift to a circular economy is not about reducing the negative impacts of a linear economy based on the production and disposal of goods but about implementing an entire systemic shift that “builds long-term resilience, generates business and economic opportunities, and provides environmental and societal benefits.”
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
As Fritjof Capra says: a machine can be controlled, a living system can only be disturbed. At best, we will find ways of carefully nudging a living system. According to Donella Meadows, we must find its leverage points, those pivots that allow us to influence system behavior. Most importantly: after each cautious inter- vention, we must patiently o... See more
Understanding Living Systems
It seems a radical idea, but as the climate crisis deepens, ‘sustainable design’ and ‘doing less harm’ are not enough to avert catastrophe – we have to find ways to replenish ecosystems while meeting our own needs.
Malaika Byng • Regenerative design: meet the creatives taking a rooting interest in learning from nature
There is as yet no serious sign of retreat into a sustainable lifestyle (which would really mean achieving only the semblance of sustainability), but even the aspiration is dangerous. For what would we be aspiring to? To forcing the future world into our image, endlessly reproducing our lifestyle, our misconceptions and our mistakes.