Here is my vision of Design and my personal code which I aim to follow in my everyday practice of Design. To write a sort of Design manifesto, which I am sure will evolve throughout my whole life, I used some of the principles that Sharon Beder describes in her book Environmental Principles and Policies, […]

Goodwill, bad practice For a plastic recycling workshop, I made a self-watering plant pot with a plastic bottle for my mint. As I was struggling to find a relevant second life for this bottle and I tend to let my plants die from thirst, I first thought this idea was genius (thank’s Pinterest!). The concept […]

For Design Matter is the primary element of design. And if too much matter kills matter, no matter at all can kill design. Indeed, creating things (objects, places, services, even digital…) demand material resources. For now, we persist in extracting natural resources to build new things but soon, a material crisis will force us to […]

“Design is bullshit” If I don’t hear it from straightforward friends, I can read it in the sceptical look of others when I say that I study sustainable design. Today I want to write about this awkward but meaningful moment when I try to explain why I think that DESIGN IS USEFUL.   Stereotypes Most […]