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 …
As soon as this prompt was described as working with a material that we were unfamiliar with I knew I wanted to work with my sewing machine. I’d used it a handful of times prior for some projects but never fully “got it.” I’d not learned the little details that allow more talented individuals to …
After spending some time getting to know Paul through a meeting on Campus and going to a brewery later in the week with a few other students something that stuck out to me was how much professional experience he already had; a stark opposite to myself. But we both liked the outdoors and were both …
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