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“In Dott 07 in North East England, we are not telling people to behave sustainably.
We are co-designing, with them, more sustainable ways to organise daily life – ways that bring material benefit in the immediate term.”
And
“Andrea Crews — the brainchild of Maroussia Rebecq, an art school grad from Bordeaux — is a recycling clothes label. Working closely with charity shops like Emmaus, the Crews crew cuts up and repurposes huge heaps of secondhand clothes, re-investing dead and ugly heaps of cloth with playful panache. They stage big fun events where dozens of amateur models are transformed into garish and sometimes grotesque creatures, and all the clothes are given away to the audience at the end of the show. Most importantly, and against all the odds, many of their creations actually look excitingly good. It’s a philosopher’s stone sort of deal — Andrea Crews recycles base materials into pure fashion gold.”
And
“Thus,the designer ideal should no longer be the “apolitical”
designer of the mid 20th century, nor the “critical” designer
of the late 20th century. Instead the role of the designer is to
facilitate the proliferation of publics around issues of concern,
assisting them in their hacking efforts and enrich the toolbox
with which we can change the situated problems. The designer
is in this case not only a constructive critical actor but also a
builder of applied scenarios and an explorer of possibilities
where every design case with its publics and interfaces is a
small effort to change and an example of “practical idealism”
(to use a term by Mahatma Gadhi).”