For the majority of the last twenty years, sustainability in architecture has primarily focused on energy. This focus has included thermal insulation, window glazing, optimized cooling, and enhanced controls. Interior designers were excluded from that discussion, as the items they specify do not utilize electricity. That framework has disintegrated, and the rationale ought to restructure the discipline's self-perception. As the cleanliness of operational energy improves, the

For much of the twentieth century, design and business occupied different institutional worlds. Designers are trained in art academies to develop form, craft, and visual sensibility; managers are trained in business schools to optimize capital, operations, and markets. The two professions only met at the commission and often misunderstood one another when they did. Now that division has fallen apart. Global consultancies acquire design studios, technology companies place desi