Sustainable Design Quotes

“Decay is renewal--a perhaps contradictory sentence that nevertheless characterizes the aesthetically sustainable product, which ages gracefully and which possesses the germ of aesthetic decay as process. Decay equals renewal in the sense that aesthetic decay ensures the continued interest and fascination of the recipient.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage

“The historical division between the beautiful and the sublime indicates that an aesthetic experience is not necessarily linked to beauty, but can also be induced by the unpleasant, unbalanced, distorted, or even hideous.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage

“If modern environmentalism continue on the current path of wilding the city, future urban dwellers might as well live in tree houses, for all the difference it will make.”
― Archimedes Muzenda, Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

“WHICH TOMORROW ARE WE SPOILING TODAY?

ARE WE INVENTING SOMETHING TODAY THAT WE WOULD REGRET TOMORROW?”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Fashion in Africa has always been Sustainable for decades. We just didn’t use the catchy buzzwords”
― Belinda Smetana