"As the numbers and impact of the human population grow, the imperative of confronting the unsustainable becomes more pressing.. it is the greatest challenge, terror, opportunity and adventure the species has ever faced".
Tony Fry 2000.

Let the ground rise up to resist us, let it prove porous, spongy, rough, irregular, let it assert its native title, its right to maintain its traditional surfaces.
Paul Carter, The Lie of the Land.

The blinding power of new technical objects obscures that which must be destroyed to create them. Our ‘cradle to grave’ design thinking and conventional economic wisdom consigns ‘last generation’ objects to an increasingly toxic terra firma. Vast arrays of once ubiquitous technologies are now considered useless, dead and buried. This naïve way of thinking (design for landfill) is making us also look more and more like a ‘last generation’.
Keith Armstrong, Edit From Artist Statement, The Last Generation.