Dezeen has spoken to a huge number of architects, designers and activists this year. For our review of 2019, deputy editor Augusta Pownall picks 10 quotes that sum up what's been going on in the architecture and design community.

Annalie Riches: "We don't want to do anything that doesn't aim for zero carbon now"
Following Mikhail Riches' Stirling Prize win for the low-energy Goldsmith Street development in Norwich, practice co-founder Annalie Riches told Dezeen that they intend to minimise the embodied carbon in all future projects.
Riches, whose practice has signed up to Architects Declare, pointed out that in the light of the current climate emergency, the carbon used in construction should be at the top of architects' agenda.
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Paola Antonelli: "We will become extinct; extinction is normal, it's natural"
Dezeen Day keynote speaker and curator of the Milan Triennale exhibition, Paola Antonelli, believes that humans don't have the power to stop their own extinction but they can still make their remaining time on Earth count and leave a positive legacy.
Citizens are the true agents of change, she told Dezeen, and the work of curators, designers and writers to try and make a positive difference has fallen on the deaf ears of the political establishment.
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Sara Arnold: "Creativity doesn't mean to create more stuff"
Members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion staged a funeral...