¶ Design (2)
Index Entry
Design:
“by humans is a priori-- the design of sea waves, winds, birds, animals, grasses, flowers, rocks, mosquitoes, spiders, salmon, crabs, and flying fish. Humans are confronted with an a priori comprehensive designing intellect which, for instance, has designed the sustenance of life on the planet we call Earth by the photosynthetic functioning of vegetation during which process all the by-product gases given off by the vegetation are designed to be the specific chemical gases essential to sustaining all mammalian life on Earth, and when these gases are consumed by the mammals, they in turn are transformed, again by chemical combinations and disassociations, to produce the by-product gases essential to the regeneration of the vegetation, thus completing a totally regenerative ecological design cycle.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Introduction to Victor Papanek’s “Design for the Real World,” p.2-3, 9 Apr’71
