Today's social system is beginning to show its seams — through its fragility and through the widening gap between need and want. Amid an overflow of information and a value order in constant flux, easy forms of happiness have become available for instant consumption. As a result, what lasts in the body as embodied experience has grown relatively thin. Within this shift, we are moving our creative focus toward more fundamental and resilient interactions: corporeality and emotion. To be a designer is to occupy one of the few professions permitted to give physical form to what was once metaphysical — which is to say, a profession capable of intervening in lifestyles, in material values, and in the patterns of consumption that shape much of human life. From the latter half of the twentieth century, Victor Papanek and many other thinkers have sounded warnings about the weight of this fact. For design to recover its telesis and respond to genuine human need, returning to our origin — the body, and our connection with the natural world — has, we believe, become ever more essential. As designers, we are also among those who accelerate consumption and add daily to the burden placed on the environment. While we continue to ask how to live alongside impulse design and commercial design, we want to keep learning, and to leave — even in small measure — something to hand on to the generation that follows. When one day we close our work, we hope to look back and say that on balance we left something positive for society, building such a record one project at a time.