Nathan Schedroff brought out in his lecture What is the Place of Design in Our Society?-Sustainability", how a more sustainable and meaningful world is in our grip. He mentioned how the "slow food" movement builds upon a relationship between a person and their meal. He further suggests that we think about how the food came to be on our plate, where it came from, and how far it traveled? This form of sustainable thinking can be implemented into sustainable design: designing products that make tomorrow better for everyone.
Schedroff stressed that sustainability should not only be pigeon-holed to "green" thinking and recycling. In fact, in order to sustain this earth, society needs to take into consideration financial, social, and ecological aspects. This approach on design thinking effectively fabricated an ideology of taking care of our future. Designing for usability, accessibility, dematerialization, reuse, disassembly, recyclability, and so on, humans would have the power to transform society's incessant need to extract precious and depleting resources.
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