“Every object made by man is the embodiment of what is at once thinkable and possible. Something that someone was able to both think of and physically create. Every object made by man is situated at an intersection of lines of development of thought – models, cultural structures, forms of knowledge – with lines of technological development – availability of materials, transformation techniques, forecasting and control systems…This intersection between what is thinkable and what is possible, which we refer to as design, is neither simple nor straightforward. There is no broad, free-ranging Thinkable that has only to squeeze into the boundaries of the Possible, because the very awareness of those boundaries is a basic element of what can be thought of.”
– Ezio Manzini (1989)
