MSz: The jeans we wear most days, organic fruit grown in distant countries that we sometimes buy, our smartphones that market forces pressure us to regularly replace, the next design project I hope to make… for each of these, can we really determine their impact on the environment and their effect on our health? It seems extremely difficult to make the right virtuous choices with certainty. If we consider ecology to be a type of hygiene, I would be concerned first about my own mental hygiene. That is where our relationship with the world begins.

imbue us with life? “You can’t touch without being touched. When you touch an object, you are simultaneously aware of it and of a part of yourself.”9

9 Max-Henri de Larminat, Objets en dérive (Paris Centre Pompidou/Atelier des enfants/Dessain & Tolra, 1984).