Booster quotes 2007.

At the DesignBoost 07 key event we ask the participating Boosters to make a quote on the overall theme "Sustainable design". You can read the quotes below:

Kristina Dryza - trend forecaster

"The sustainability of cultural heritage amidst the backdrop of global change and modern life"

 

Satyendra Pakhale - cultural nomad and designer

“Every design ought to be Sustainable design, meaning something people refuse to trash”

 

Brent Richards - creative thinking/Futurescaping

"Sustainable design has past, present, and future; the rest of design is a figment of our desire for imagination"

 

Stephen Burks - designer

"The future of design lies in it's ability to make a positive contribution to the transformation of economies in the developing world"

 

Jennifer Leonard - designer researcher and writer

"What will endure is what is uniquely human"

 

Mårten Claesson - designer and architect

"It is our responsibility to be dedicated to improvement, innovation and perfection"

 

Jody Turner - creating future culture/empowering consumer citizen

"Transparency story: The citizen consumer now wants to know, 'Where has this product come from, what is it doing to me now and where is it going to?' This changes everything going forward"

 

Christel Vaenerberg - product portfolio director/Iittala

"Solutions which meet the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to fulfill their own needs"

 

Thomas Sandell - designer and architect

"Quality is always sustainable"

 

Katarina Graffman - ethnographer

“Sustainable design gives an authentic value to the consumer”

 

Ilkka Suppanen - designer

"I would hope that still we would believe that individuals who join together can make the world a better place, like Jesse Jackson once"

 

Mathilda Tham - Guest professor in Fashion/Beckmans Designhögskola, Lecturer in Eco-design/Goldsmiths College

"Design that takes as a starting point, that respects, supports and inspires good and sound relationships between people, and between humans and nature"

 

Tim Power - architect

"Sustainable design is the responsible use of resources - the pleasure of simplicity and walking lightly on the land"

 

Sean Pillot de Chenecey - research and brand development

"The 'sustainability question' is a profound one - that it's regularly being asked on a global basis makes it of vital interest to anyone interested in the answer 'Good Business is...Good Business'"

 

Nina Jobs - designer

"In the problem-solving work as a designer I work for solid development by making the right choices of material, high quality in function and expression, the best production pattern to offer a durable product available for many people"

 

Thomas Lykke - design and innovation development

“Working with sustainable solutions is an opportunity to embrace local craftsmanship and new technology with a human and emotional approach. Sustainable design is not about trend, but is here to stay – it’s inevitable”

 

Björn Jeffery - web strategy

"Sustainable Design - creation which enables several possible outcomes"

 

Mårten Knutsson - communication

"The ultimate in sustainable design are products etc. with a quality that makes you want to keep them forever"

 

Kristina Börjesson - PhD, Research Associate/Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

"We must have more holistic approach to sustainability to avoid sustaining the unsustainable"

 

Oliver Ike - entrepreneur

"Sustainable design should mean a long lasting design that makes sense for its environmental, social and economic impact"

 

Olof Kolte - lecturer/LTH

"Can we do this indefinetly?"

 

Ida Hult - ethnographer

"A complex connection between consumer values and material culture"

 

Jonas Bylund - designer

"Sustainability will be one of the greatest branding tools in the future"

 

Olivier Rohrbach - journalist and music designer

"Sustainable design sails the trends and becomes rarely wrinkled!"

 

Jens Pamp - design and brand management

"Products designed to last, in terms of product quality and timeless design is not necessarily always what the consumer wants"

 

Jens Martin Skibsted - ideation and innovation

"A unique attribute to design as a development strategy is not to create desirability, but the attempt to sustain this desirability with time. Good design is sustainable per se"

 

Jonas Pinzke - brand experience

"There is no business to be done on a dead planet"

 

Marcus Wendin - environmental management

"Sustainable design is when we combine understanding of individual need and function with the need for a desirable development"

 

John-Michael Ekeblad - design strategy

"ReSimplified Life + ReEngineered Imagination = Sustainability"

 

Ann Wåhlström - designer

"If you can imagine living with something all your life - it´s sustainable design!"

 

Jan Wifstrand - journalist

"Design is probably the most underrated factor of all when trying to improve sales of traditional products"

 

Johannes Norlander - designer and architect

"Design that restrain consumption tend to be sustainable - high quality and a long term thinking"

 

Agneta Hahne - architect

"Sustainability demands forward-looking thinking, caring and boldness"

 

Nick McLean - entrepreneur and photographer

"Hopefully we will reach a point in the near future when the phrase 'sustainable design' becomes an unnecessary tautology and all design becomes not only sustainable but also beneficial to society"

 

Joakim Norén - trend research

"To make products environmentally sustainable they need to be both emotionally sustainable (appealing over time) and not be limited to not harm the environment but try to benefit the environment"

 

Christina Cheng - concept development

"Sustainable design will spur unimaginged creativity and be the second Industrial revolution"

 

Anders Breitholtz - material and production techniques

"…It is stating the blindingly obvious! Nature consists of millions of years of collected design knowledge - it would be stupid to ignore it and suicidal to kill it… "

 

Sanna Sevika Hansson - visual artist/designer/corporate design consultant

"Design with multi-layered meanings, spiritual as well as functional, will always taste better than the fickle diet of temporary design buzzwords served in this 'Fast Design Nation'"

 

Louise Hederström - designer

"It should be a long-term commitment for everyone"

 

Maxjenny Forslund - fashion designer and producer

"I demand the consumers to start act actively and choose quality with, of course, a bit higher price instead of getting all watery about all this cheap things that surrounds us with fantastic subhumanly low prices, quality IS sustainable in itself, after 1 comes 2 etc"

 

Pernilla Jansson - designer

"Both designer, producer and consumer have the responsibility for sunstainable design"

 

Claes Foxerus - design management

"The Sustainability Way Rules – all and everything else will erode!"

 

Claes von Hauswolf - brand and design director/Brio

"Sustainable: a product or service you only need to purchase once, and last for a liftime or more. Example: BRIO wooden railway"

 

Charlotte Sörensen - designer and president/DISK

"We have a responsibillity to make active choises as designers. If we don't, who does?"

 

Jan Åman - director/färgfabriken

"Content is always sustainable, design is not"

 

Per Key Björcke - director /design management

 

Marcus Bergman - design management

"The question is; will we sustain the structure that allows children to produce our designs, women to be exploited by our designs, and men to be degraded by our designs – or will we design the business of design in another fashion?"

 

Kevin Low - architect

"Sustainability is about working with context and having context work for you"

 

Peter Andersson - designer

"Sustainable design is for me much about working with ideas that lasts, functionally of course, but above all - intellectually"

 

Mats Theselius - designer

"Sustainable design is the opposite of the three fundamentals of crap-culture; reproduction, reconsumtion and recycling, sustainable design is not only something that lasts its also something you keep for your life"

 

Ewa Kumlin - managing director/Svensk Form

"The design process is an effective tool for change and designers are the link between manufacturers and consumers. They can influence how social, environmental and economic criteria are integrated into a product's design, manufacture, marketing and communication."

 

Kerstin Sylwan - designer/founder of Saving the planet in style

"The design of a sustainable society is both challenging and inspiring; it is not only to dress our artefacts in a different material, but to change the whole structure and shape of what we do"

 

Christina Elwing - information director/Sparbanken Finn

"Sustainable: something you never get tired of"

 

Kajsa Bengtsson - PR manager and business coach/Minc

"Sustainable design - products and services designed, produced and sold in a way that creates a better world worth living in"

 

Kristina Sahlqvist - lector/HDK

"Sustainable design is a democratic thought which means a sustainable society with equal opportunity and participation for all people"

 

Stefan Fallgren - design coordinator/Region Skåne

"Is there an option?"

 

Jonas Magnusson - creative director/industrial designer

"Truly sustainable design will call for new and progressive perspectives on the business model"

 

Dori Gislason - dean/Oslo national academy of the Arts

"Sustainability means sustaining what we have already, that should not be the goal, synergy is what we should aim at"

 

Anders Stedtzon - web designer

"Sustainable design is a reaction to the global environmental crisis"

 

Steuart Padwick - founder Designbar

"Is economy of scale one of the biggest disasters for the planet?"

 

Claes Frössén - project manager/SVID

"Sustainable design is about creating with ethics, knowledge and taste"

 

Seth Carnes - artist

"How long, how natural, how sincere?"

 

Anders Emilsson - Malmö University/School of Arts and Communication

"Exploring possibilities for creating a sustainable future through design"

 

Mads Kjøller Damkjær - industrial designer

"In the future sustainability will not be an add-on to design. In the future sustainability will be an integrated part of any design"

 

Åsa Harvard - Malmö University/School of Arts and Communication

"Caring about the environmental costs inherent in the birth and death of

artefacts"

 

Frederik Andersen - industrial designer

"In a world of abundance, sustainable design is the latest excuse for increased consumption"

 

Per Anders Hillgren - Malmö University/School of Arts and Communication

“It’s about finding ways to continuously develop and evolve forms for long term collaboration between people and between people and the material world”

 

Micke Svedemar - Malmö University/School of Arts and Communication

"Sustainable design is ideally built for neighborhoods which are stable,

beautiful and affordable"

 

Johan Berhin - designer

"Sustainable: Less, better and closer to your heart"

 

Anders Jauring - Creative director

"Sustainable design is spreading happiness. Not as easy as it sounds"

 

Johanna Boäng - student/Hyper Island

"Creating sustainable design is taking the fourth dimension into consideration, and the added value of something that lasts"

 

Anton Breman - student/Lund University, industrial design LTH

"Responsible thinking creates a sustainable future"

 

Marona Grundén - student/Lund University, industrial design LTH

"Sustainibility is what the "hippiefreaks" been nagging about for 30 years!"

 

Runa Klock - student/Oslo National academy of the arts

"Sustainable design leaves future generations the same or more natural resources, that we have today"