Notes Design

John Thackara has just published an extensive and in-depth interview that was done with him and Sunil Abraham for this month's Cluster magazine in a special issue published for the World Congress of Architecture which opens later this month in Turin, Italy.

"The only meaningful task of design now," Thackara says, "is to help people transform the ways they obtain food, energy, materials, and water - in cities, or outside them. This kind of design is of course "political" in that it opposes the demands of industrial society for limitless resources in a world whose carrying capacity is finite."