Changing the Change

“Something that we know very well about the present is that the world is changing, rapidly and profoundly. The only certain thing that we know about the future is that the current change must change direction. It must find the way to sustainability.” Ezio Manzini

This may be old news to many of you but I stumbled upon the Changing the Change website the other day. This conference, which took place in Torino in the summer of 2008, aimed to “present visions, proposals and tools that emerge from precise design research activities”. The full proceedings are now available as a PDF download and with themes like Ways of Living, Ways of Producing, Daily Life Solutions, Design Theories and Methods, there’s some life- and mind-altering reading there for the whole family.