We all have a subject that (for a particular reason or not) has a special place in our consciousness... As an architecture student finishing his studies, my (somewhat short) path through this environment has allowed me to collect some experiences, memories, images, thoughts that ultimately add up to an informed conscience focused in various parameters of our existence. The sum of these has created in me a special interest on how to create a sustainable existence and the importance of each one of us in this matter.
As a future architect I have understood some of the challenges that this century will present to our generation of designers, and i strongly feel that the protection of our only HOME will be essential (if not the most important challenge we will face in the next years).
In my opinion (and as i have previously stated) the primary goal and the whole point of design related activities is improving the life quality of us all, but along the way, we have switched the means with the ends.

So, it should work like this:

Objective: Quality of Life
Means: Effort and Economic Growth

but, in reality we have made economic growth as our primary goal at the expense of our quality of life. In fact, every second, as the planet breathes we sacrifice a small portion of air, of land, of water (of ourselves), for the sake of some $$$ in our pocket. It's a never ending/ever growing rythm (without poetry) of (destructive) growth, and you can check for yourself how Earth Breathes and some of the effects it has in all of us.