«Toda la Filosofía griega es una mirada en su forma más alta y mejor. Saber mirar es ser filósofo en Grecia, con todo lo que de ahí se deriva. Pues la creencia fundamental de esta Filosofía, escondida hasta Platón, es que aquel que mira ya no muere. El que ha sabido mirar, siquiera un árbol, ya no muere. Es la lección y la esperanza de toda vida contemplativa.»
María Zambrano (1904-1991)
Zambrano, María. Hacia un saber sobre el alma (1950). Alianza Editorial, págs. 79-80.
«Somehow, and this is a theory of mine, a car design, like any work of art, embodies the feelings and emotions of the designers who create it. When the chemistry of talent, experience, intelligence, and enthusiasm all come together at the right time, the car begins to take on a life of its own and emits certain vibes. Some designs are like fads — their vibes are transient, but others continue to have appeal over a long period of time and become classics.»
William Lee “Bill” Porter Jr. (1937–2025)
Pontiac Firebird History - Designing A Legend: Pontiac Designer Bill Porter's Influence On The Development Of The Second-Gen Firebird, by Rocky Rotella, HOT ROD, Jul 01, 2007.«Biodesign — design with living materials — is obviously looking to the future, as living matter is becoming a stakeholder and not just a resource. It’s a vision that is no longer anthropocentric.
On March 26, 2021, the Charter on the Rights of Living Things was proclaimed. In my view, this is an approach that questions the rights of nature and animals. It is totally disruptive. It’s biocentrism.
We can imagine that tomorrow there will be no design without bio-inspiration, with bio-inspiration becoming an approach that enables humans to better engage in dialogue and work with living things. In this case, nature would not be a catalogue of “virtuous technological practices” but a culture of doing.»
Katie Cotellon
Head of Design & UX, Saint Gobain Research, France.
IF Design Trend Report 2024, p. 203.«We proclaim: For us, space and time are born today. Space and time: the only forms where life is built, the only forms, therefore, where art should be erected.
States, political and economic systems, die under the push of the centuries: ideas crumble, but life is robust; it grows and cannot be ripped up, and time is continuous in life's true duration. Who will show us more efficient forms? Which great human will give us more solid foundations? Which genius will conceive for us a legend more elating than the prosaic story that is called life?»
Realistic Manifesto, Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner, 1920.
The Realistic Manifesto was first published on August 5, 1920, in poster form, on the occasion of an exhibition with Gustav Klucis in Moscow.Più dell'arte
mi interessa la vita da cui parte
il brodo di cottura
della cultura.
Segatura della vita
l'opera finita
non è che la traccia
di una lunga marcia
di sapienti mandarini
o geniali bambini.
Andrea Branzi (1938-2023)
Andrea Branzi, Nel Regno dei Viventi, Dietro la Poesia, Corraini Edizioni, 2022.«Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.»
Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
Gropius, Walter. “My Conception of the Bauhaus Idea,” Scope of Total Architecture. Ed. Walter Gropius. New York: Colliers, 1962. 6–19.