Slow

The Slow Food movement describes itself as an organisation that brings together pleasure and responsibility and makes them inseparable. It is an alternative to a life lived too fast.

Irrespective of how one chooses to eat, combining responsibility and pleasure underlines the importance of thinking first about the impact on the quality of our lives and on those around us of the decisions we make.

Design needs to be responsible. Design should be pleasurable. Do we design too fast? Maybe. But I suspect that the most important issue is that of imagination. The slow food movement dares to imagine another way of living. Good design springs from the same leap of faith that things can be different: that the irreconcilable can be resolved.