The only design project that’s really sustainable is the one you don’t do. The idea that you can save the planet by consuming resources is absurd. If you want to be really sustainable, buy an old house, fill it with antiques and walk everywhere. It’s the job of politicians to stop global warming, not architects and designers, whose micro interventions can’t make any real difference. The phrase ‘environmentally friendly’ is meaningless. And stop talking about sustainable design, because it’s boring.
And another one:
People who talk about the creative industries are attempting to package something messy and ephemeral as something quantifiable, like, say, the steel industry – thereby bureaucratising it and, inevitably, rendering it uncreative. And boring!
More about boring issues:
www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/027/boring_text.htm

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