Joris Laarman sembra capace di interpretare il presente attraverso il design. Scrive Alice Rawsthorn: «In an environmental crisis, when most of us already feel guilty about
owning more stuff than we need, design is about making things matter –
or making them seem as though they do. Smart designers are using
advanced technologies to create industrial products, which will seem so
meaningful to us that we will come to love them as much as we do
lovingly handcrafted objects, or our favorite antiques».