“Utopia is a literary invention of a place so perfect that it can't exist in reality. But that's exactly what we should be striving towards.
Of course you can't realize utopia in a single flash. What we can do, however, is make sure that every time you are called upon to design a building or an urban space, you have to make this little fragment of the world more like the way you wish the world to be.”
— Bjarke Ingels (@BjarkeIngels / @BIG_Architects)
“A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something.
If you look at that definition closely for a minute, you can see that a system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose.”
— Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems