January 2008
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Researching the designers: Where Stuff Comes From
I’ve been diving back into a book I set aside a while back — Where Stuff Comes From by sociologist Harvey Molotch. It’s insightful because it’s a review of the design industry from the view of an outsider. His review of “how things come to be” dispassionately confirms many things you knew to be true but may not have heard said so simply. Some excerpts from just the first 3 chapters:
“Most...
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our broken story of stuff
Annie Leonard’s flash video on the Story of Stuff puts all the things you probably knew about our world system of production and consumption into a straightforward 20-minute video that shows how broken this system really is.
Just a few excerpts:
our national identity has become one of consumers; not teachers or farmers, but of consumers. After 9/11, Bush told us to shop.
only 1% of the...