Ezio Manzini > Quotes

“Design, in the most generic sense of the word, began over 2.5 million years ago when Homo habilis manufactured the first tools. Human beings were designing well before we began to walk upright. Four hundred thousand years ago, we began to manufacture spears. By forty thousand years ago, we had moved up to specialized tools.”
― Ezio Manzini, Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation

“Collaborative associations are groups of people who work together to solve problems or open new possibilities (and who become co-producers of the results). Some examples of this category are groups of residents who transform an abandoned plot into a shared neighborhood garden; groups of people who love cooking and who use their skills to cook for a larger group, dining together in one of the members’ houses;”
― Ezio Manzini, Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation