Month: November 2021

In 2013, four years after founding the DESIS network, Ezio Manzini felt the tides of the world were beginning to turn. Doing research on sustainable design beginning in the 80s, Manzini had already published seven books on the subject. In two years time he would publish his 8th book: Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction …

The year was 1998, Titanic was dominating the Oscars, Will Smith was “gettin’ jiggy wit it,” and recycling was seen as a solution and not a distraction. But despite the promises of recycling programs, Peter-Paul Verbeek and Petran Kockelkoren were approaching sustainability from a different angle. At the time both were at Twente University in …