I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less... (1947)
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Fuller proposes changing physical systems through design rather than trying to change human behavior directly.
- In plain terms
- Change the environment to change how people act.
- What can you take from it?
- Focus on redesigning systems instead of blaming people.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can the system be changed instead?
- What physical barriers exist?
Another view
Human behavior often resists environmental changes.
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