A green politics has to be thinking passionately about zones of creativity and innovation for human beings, as well as the constraints and duties of low-carbon living. Otherwise the transformative dimension of our own nature will end up repressed and frustrated.

The ‘I’m-happy-I’m-green’ consensus won’t placate our lust for novelty | Pat Kane | Comment is free | The Guardian

I was looking up what Pat Kane had bene up to after writing The Play Ethic and found this piece from 2011. An attempt to connect open-ended play with sustainable living. Makes quite a bit of sense.

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Kars Alfrink

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.