1973

Any industrialized institution will go through two watershed moments. At first, its progress provides clear and substantial benefits to society. But second, its overdevelopment begins to run counter to its original goal and in fact becomes destructive to society.

Conviviality is a term to describe individual freedom through creative intercourse with others and the environment. It is offered as a counter to a philosophy of industrial productivity.

Tools (in the broad sense of purposely shaped systems and objects) are vital to social relationships and the way we understand the world. Design should take measures to protect our access to tools.