"Should we feel guilty for causing pollution" Oh yeah!" admit green designers
Eco-minded designers have admitted to feeling guilty about creating products that help deplete resources and cause pollution at our Good Design for a Bad World talks in Eindhoven.
"Should we feel so guilty or not by what we're doing" Oh yeah!" said panelist Eline Strijkers, co-founder of Dutch sustainable architecture and interiors studio DoepelStrijkers.
But she added: "As long as you try to add value with what you're doing and really try to make a change and to make projects with meaning and no bullshit, I think we add value and it's okay to create [stuff]."
Architect Eline Strijkers and designers Dave Hakkens and Bernhard Lenger joined Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs for a talk about the role design can play in combatting pollution Strijkers, who aims to follow the principles of the circular economy in her projects, was responding to questions by moderator Marcus Fairs, who asked the panel how they felt about the "designer's paradox".
The phrase describes the contradiction inherent in trying to improve the world while designing products that consume resources and may well end up contributing to pollution.
Addressing the "designer's paradox"
The question came a day after designer Babette Porcelijn revealed that the stuff designers create is the biggest cause of climate change, ahead of usual suspects such as transport and agriculture.
Dave Hakkens, the young Dutch designer behind the Precious Plastics recycling project, sai...
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