What vision of the good life do your designs convey?

Art is the ultimate goal.

like this one by Arne Jacobsen, is a persuasive technology, because, again, it communicates an idea of the good life a good life a life that you, as a designer, consent to by saying,

We want a world where life is preserved and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

These were my hens and chickens.

And sometimes it takes a wake up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives, instead of actually living them that we're

They've created our wealth.

It's a gift handed down from the intelligent skills and rich emotional lives of our most ancient ancestors.

We take our high standard of living for granted.

It's just one of those small but enormous things.

I think that all of these things are eventually informed by the core of all of this, and this is nothing but life itself.

In the litlle village where I was born, life moved at a slower pace... yet felt all the richer for it.

A way of life.

less than six feet six inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules.

Mere decay produces richer life.

All they'd ever think about was cocoa beans.

But if growth slows down, instead of doubling our standard of living every generation,

In an affluent society most people have a high standard of living.

We take care of our own health and manage our own burnout.

This is how I'm finishing my days.

Back to the streets. We've slept rough before.

Jacques Cousteau's shows on TV, with all this richness and abundance and diversity.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living.

And for hundreds, even thousands of years, the home was really the center of life.

And if you look into the designed environment around us with that kind of lens, asking, What is the vision of the good life that our products, our design, present to us? , then you often get the shivers, because of how little we expect of each other, of how little we actually seem to expect of our life, and what the good life looks like.

Life expectancy from 25 years to 75 years.

I know them, and they follow Me.

The private and secret longings of a princess.

You enjoy living like that?

We've identified 35 places globally that we need to work.

That kind of rich, earthy... alive...

Life in a small town is boring.

The whole life of a single guy thing.

All that stuff I said, about leaving the ship....

If we continue on using Japan's traditional trees, we would be able to live even better lives, even without using energy.

Or you'll be able to enrich your life by prioritizing it and paying attention to it.

Past life, physiognomy.

The reason we can be so well off, even though there is so many people on earth, is because of the power of ideas.

He doesn't want us around here getting in his way, cramping' his style...

It's more of a trespassing situation, really, but...

Wealth. I think it's really important to separate the two concepts.

So the question is Will we respond to this or not?

Any discrepancy should hopefully be external.

Let me live in peace.

What I'd like to do is take you through the lifespan of one person and show you the many different ways how sign language can enhance your life,and how it can enhance a community as a whole.