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4.7 Culture sustainability

The aim of the “Reading Partner” is to help people to enjoy reading, and help

organizing and preparing material for further work. Ann Thorpe, the author of The

Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability, suggests that the mission of culture sustainability is to

create and maintain general human well-being. People have the need to achieve a set

of well-being, for instance, the need for leisure, healthy affections and ability of

understanding. “Most of nine needs are emotional and intellectual in nature and are

frequently best satisfied by looking inside oneself to develop abilities to pursue a

meaningful relationship and personal growth.”

And according to the needs theory,

“internal means of meeting needs works better than external means. When the needs

are not successfully satisfied, the result can be negative feelings, such as depression,

anxiety, low energy and loneliness.”

I consider reading is one of the internal means of meeting the need of knowing, relaxing,

exploring, etc. Reading a book brings much more than the need of getting information

which we usually do on internet. When we look upon it on the cultural level, reading

brings us back to a more healthy way to live in this century which in people’s mind is

experienced as a fast-paced materialistic way of life.

Ann Thorpe, 2007,The designer's atlas of sustainability, Island Press, p116

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