Alice Rawsthorn: Debating Sustainability
February 6, 2010 | Levent OZLER
If you ask a designer to name the most important issues facing design today, one is bound to be sustainability, which is design-speak for helping the rest of us to live responsibly, ethically and environmentally.
That's the easy bit.
While most designers would agree that sustainability is important, they're very likely to disagree about everything else to do with it.
What exactly is sustainable design? What constitutes success? And failure? On what criteria?
Different designers may well give very different answers to all of those questions, and more.
more: nytimes.com/2010/02/01/arts/01iht-design1.html (88)
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