Enzo Mari

"...The real culture is to produce it. If we limit ourselves simply to observing and don't attempt to produce it, we compromise the kind of society we live in. This morning I spoke of free time, and about the personal computer.

Let's speak about free time. Every religion speaks about the day - one of seven - that isn't dedicated to work and when you rest. I mean rest in the sense that you can think about the reasons for being free from the tasks of hunting or of farming. It's an opportunity for ethical contemplation. But today the obsession with free time is something quite different. You have rapidly produced entirely alienated work, and now you can acquire or consume the things that you have been forced to reproduce. This is well-being, but well-being for a cyborg."

p.41  II - the Munich Interview for Utopia Station Munich, 2004

Enzo Mari

"Here, I'm speaking about design, and about how passive thinking can rely on programs elaborated for cyborgs. I highlight this reality for all those schools that really persist in longing for new horizons of design, for more intelligent design, but that constantly become dedicated to learning about computers and marketing - people who have foregone any basic training and knowledge, tha twhich is fundamental, that which is the basis of form."

p.42 II - the Munich Interview for Utopia Station Munich, 2004