At the crux of it, that's what Slow Design is all about".
The theme in the cafe was slow design, the group's answer to the slow food movement.
The ATS seems to be one such "slow design," as these are sometimes called, which at first seems simple but is likely to age gracefully.
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
Now, of course, there are hundreds of sites, and every week I get an e-mail from a student wanting to write his or her thesis on slow cities or slow design".
While Slow Food is now in its third decade, an established global movement with an official manifesto and about 85,000 members in over 100 countries, Slow Design is still in its infancy.
Designed by Ms. Chanin and her collaborator, Butch Anthony, and hand-made by artisans — the ladies, as she calls them — in her hometown of Florence, Ala., her products are examples of Slow Design, which is not so much a metabolic term as it is a philosophical one.
Such a separated approach results in slow design convergence for wire-limited deep sub-micron designs.
DfE approaches to textile and apparel design include: cradle to cradle (Gam et al. 2009), design for disassembly (Gam et al. 2011), slow design (Clark, 2008), and green fashion design (Kim, 2010).
I also found that the large number of connection options of these other systems cause you to have to make slow design decisions and sometimes be stuck with settling on certain design details".
There are no dents that can't be refinished, so timber-built two-wheelers can be, in Slow Design parlance, heirloom pieces.
