Katie Treggiden (UK), writer and journalist involved into the research of a circular approach to design, has understood – after twenty years of professional activity – that working with the right awareness is not always enough to pursue clear objectives. An idea that might “change the world” is not often supported by tools and means equally grand. Only after having stepped back, she managed to gain a more objective vision: can craft save the world? She gathered the explorations to this question in the book Wasted: when trash becomes treasure (EN) (Ludion, 2020) →, where craft, design and sustainability intersect in the propositions of thirty designers that treasure waste to make more aware objects with a considerable reduction of ecological footprint.

Similarly, Fulvio Irace, architect and architectural historian, meditates about an Italy laid bare by the pandemic ←. “We need utopias of the behaviours and daily practices, not of grand gestures that resolve in images or easy slogans. We believe that we should start from noting that – as history teaches us – we will continue inhabiting as always, but – hopefully – in a better way. In fact, there are no immediate solutions, but taking care of the ordinary.”

‣ How design writer Katie Treggiden believes that by treasuring our trash we can change the world…, Hole & Corner, 2020 (EN).
‣ Fulvio Irace: “Non esistono soluzioni immediate, ma la cura dell’ordinario”, Domus, 2020 (IT).