Design, When Everybody Designs vs. Design for Sustainability

A Harmonious Echo

What connects your interest in Ezio Manzini's 'Design, When Everybody Designs' with M. R. M. Crul's 'Design for Sustainability' is a profound, shared belief in the democratizing and ethically driven evolution of design itself. Both books, though potentially seen as distinct, resonate as echoes of the same fundamental shift: a move away from exclusive, top-down design to systems where agency is distributed and responsibility for sustainability is embedded in the very act of creation. You've been drawn to the idea that design is no longer solely the purview of experts, but a participatory process that inherently carries ethical weight, especially concerning our planet's future, and both these works speak to that core conviction without you having to voice it.