Technology and design

This series of essays from the 1930s and 1960s addresses the struggle between opposing disciplines of human activity: natural science, humanities, and artistic design. Paul Schatz—inventor and artist—situated himself at precisely this intersection throughout his life. At the same time, he denounced humankind's environmental destruction and called for responsibility toward the earth.
Here, a Swiss pioneer of environmental technology has his say. For him, the threat posed by radioactivity, DDT and water pollution prompted him to question the ethical principles of technology, which ultimately can only be founded on a humanities science that needs to be further developed.