¶ Rearranging the Environment
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Rearranging the Environment:
“I’m experienced in going from original conceptions, i.e. inventions-- ergo, unknown to others-- to altering the environment in a complex of ways which are omni-considerate of all side effects on the altered environment. I am accustomed to starting from primitive conditions, where as far as one can see no other man has explored. I have learned how to rearrange the environment in such a way that it does various things for our society that we could not do before, such as building a dam which in turn produces a pond…”
¶ Citations
- RBF Introduction to Victor Papanek’s “Design for the Real World,” 9 Apr’71
