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«Lo primero que tenemos que hacer es sacar a los humanos del centro de la arquitectura.»

Rania Ghosn

Rania Ghosn is Associate Professor of architecture and urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology —where she is Director of the SMArchS Urbanism program— and founding principal of DESIGN EARTH.

Congreso Mundial de Arquitectos: "Lo primero que tenemos que hacer es sacar a los humanos del centro de la arquitectura", por Ramón Vendrell, El Periódico, Barcelona, 29 junio 2026.
Imagen: Rania Ghosn, Design Earth, Cosmorama, 2018 US Pavillion Venice Biennale. The Architectural Review.

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«A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.»

Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949, p. 262, as quoted in Wikipedia.
Image: Aldo Leopold on a bow hunting trip to the Rio Gavilán, Northern Mexico, 1938 (Public Domain).

424

«Humanity has opened the gates of hell.»

António Guterres

UN Secretary-General António Guterres during the Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations Headquarters, Sept. 20, 2023, in New York.

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“Esta generación ha alterado la composición de la atmósfera a una escala global a través de... un aumento sostenido de dióxido de carbono procedente de la quema de combustibles fósiles.”

Lyndon Johnson
Discurso en el Congreso de Estados Unidos, 1965.

Citado por Naomi Oreskes y Erik M. Conway, Mercaderes de la duda: Cómo un puñado de científicos ocultaron la verdad sobre el calentamiento global, Traducción de José Manuel Álvarez-Flórez, Editorial Capitán Swing, 2018. Título original, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Bloomsbury Publishing, Estados Unidos, 2010.

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“Come architetti, pianificatori e designer, sappiamo che la situazione c’impone di guardare oltre le strategie per ‘rinverdire’ le nostre città e per proteggere il paesaggio. […] Non possiamo continuare a fare affidamento su tecniche compensative, né motivarci solo attraverso la retorica della sostenibilità e il richiamo del potenziale dell’economia verde. Dobbiamo essere disposti a partecipare a una svolta radicale che privilegia le iniziative ambientali e sociali rispetto a imperativi commerciali privi di senso.”

David Chipperfield

David Chipperfield: “La natura della nostra immaginazione” editoriale Domus 1048, 03 luglio 2020.

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“For too long we’ve been serving the wrong goals: helping large multinationals and tech giants accrue more power and wealth at the expense of other actors, contributing to the atomisation of society by designing products for individual fulfilment ahead of the wellbeing of our communities. Our rethought world will need to prioritise people and societies, ecologies and environments, ahead of profit and productivity.”

Cennydd Bowles

After Dread. A short talk / article written for the Global Foresight Summit 2020. April 10, 2020.

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"As designers, we need to remember that we are a part of nature. Indigenous communities, which adopted this thinking thousands of years ago, now hold a global bank of eco-intelligence and indigenous innovation that is unequivocally invaluable—but only if we invest in retaining it."

Julia Watson
The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild Understanding of Indigenous Philosophy and Vernacular Architecture, Common Edge, June 21, 2019.

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"Il riciclaggio è un´ipocrisia, un´invenzione di marketing per produrre, consumare, e buttare di più. Un falso ecologico."

Philippe Starck
L'espresso, 23 aprile 2009, Le profezie di monsieur Starck: "Qual è il futuro del design? Progettare oggetti invisibili", da Annamaria Sbisà.