In “Dasein is Design: or can design save the world,” Henk Oosterling describes how our infrastructure and technology rule our lives and dictate our needs. Dasein is design means that our being in the world is determined by our design: phones, social media, architecture, norms (i.e. driving on the right hand side, stop signs)… Our hyperconsumerist lifestyle has become a function of a certain infrastructure. Hence, changing our unsustainable lifestyle means transforming our infrastructure. To shift towards a more sustainable infrastructure and consequently more sustainable needs, Oosterling propose a new kind of philosophy: another kind of thinking to match our acting. This means reassessing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment that are incompatible with the sustainable transformation of our society: namely the concepts of linearity, autonomous individual and of scarcity… Let’s replace these with the concepts of circularity, inter-vidual and abundance.

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