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As a sustainable designer, Chapman’s solution is what he calls "emotionally durable 
design". Think about your favorite old jeans. They just don't have the right feel until they 
have been worn and washed a hundred times, do they? It is like they are sharing your life 
story. You can fake that look, but it isn’t the same. Chapman says the gradual unfolding 
of a relationship like this transforms our interactions with objects into something richer 
than simple utility. Swiss industrial analyst Walter Stahel, visiting professor at the 
University of Surrey, calls it the "teddy-
bear factor”. No matter how ragged and worn a 
favorite teddy becomes, we don't rush out and buy another one. As adults, our teddy bear 
connects us to our childhoods, and this protects it from obsolescence Stahel says this is 
what sustainable design needs to do. 
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It is not simply about making durable items that people want to keep. Sustainable design 
is a matter of properly costing the whole process of production, energy use and disposal. 
"It is about the design of systems, the design of culture." says Tim Cooper from the Centre 
for Sustainable Consumption at Sheffield Hallam University in Britain. He thinks 
sustainable design has been "surprisingly slow to take off’ but says looming 
environmental crises and resource depletion are pushing it to the top of the agenda. 

Thackara agrees. For him, the roots of impending environmental collapse can be 
summarized in two words: weight and speed. We are making more stuff than the planet 
can sustain and using vast amounts of energy moving more and more of it around ever 
faster. The Information Age was supposed to lighten our economies and reduce our 
impact on the environment, but the reverse seems to be happening. We have simply 
added information technology to the industrial era and hastened the developed world's 
metabolism, Thackara argues. 
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Once you grasp that, the cure is hardly rocket science: minimize waste and energy use, 
stop moving stuff around so much and use people more. EZIO MANZINI

PROFESSOR 
of industrial design at Politecnico di Milano university, Italy, describes the process of 
moving to a post-throwaway society as like "changing the engine of an aircraft in mid-
flight' Even so, he believes it can be done, and he is not alone. 



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