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«So we have to be careful what we humans design, because we are literally designing the future, and that future isn’t in our idea of the thing, how we think it will be used and so on — that’s just our access mode. The future emerges directly from the objects we design.»

Timothy Morton

Morton, Timothy, All Art is Ecological, Penguin Books, 2021, p.62-63.

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«Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future. Design is therefore responsible for the world our children will live in.»

Robert L. Peters (1954-2023)

Robert L. Peters himself explained this quote: «I first used the line “Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future…” in a conference lecture in the mid-or-late 1990s.»

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«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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“Design is about imagining the future and being good at deciding how to get there. Designers consider the options and make choices. Good designers are good choosers.”

Debera Johnson, Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

Hannah, Bruce (2004). Becoming a Product Designer. A Guide to Careers in Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, Page 18.

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“La mejor manera de evitar el levantamiento traumático del futuro contra sus creadores es introduciendo hoy la esperanza como variable fundamental del diseño. Y junto a la esperanza, incorporar el error y el capricho, el pensamiento crítico y el Arte, la compasión improductiva, la vulnerabilidad y el respeto, la belleza y la amabilidad, lo imaginativo, lo inocente, lo inolvidable y lo intangible, la sensibilidad y la sabiduría, la inutilidad de los significados y el ruido mágico e imprevisible del sentido como parte fundamental de nuestros procesos de creación, de nuestra manera de innovar y de construir los escenarios y los artefactos con los que se sueña el mañana.”

Alberto Barreiro

Futuros en busca de sentido. Retina, El País, 25 Nov. 2019.

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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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“El futuro pertenece a los que creen en la belleza de sus sueños.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Citada por Michio Kaku (2014), El Futuro de Nuestra Mente. El reto científico para entender, mejorar y fortalecer nuestra mente. Título original: The Future of the Mind. Traducción: Juan Manuel Ibeas Delgado y Marcos Pérez Sánchez, Debate, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Barcelona, 2014, p. 227.

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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.