Notes Design

One of the most narrative installations in the Eco City Lab pavilion of the Saint -Étienne Design Biennale 2008 was Franççois Jégou's Sustainable Everyday installation--a series of small LCD screens with an array of personal stories displayed on each. Here's François:

What are more sustainable ways of living? What would the daily life of a family, a student or a pensioner be like if all the sustainable initiatives, projects, and ideas presented at the Biennale International Design were available now in Saint-Étienne?

To try to answer this question, we asked some people from the French city to imagine themselves in a more sustainable society, to imagine their current life using solutions that reduce our impact on the environment and regenerate the social fabric around us.
Emma, Gabriel, Marie, Margot, Martin and Paul have brought us their "slice of the everyday" to inspire us and show us how we too can imagine ourselves living a more sustainable lifestyle.

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