Why Slow Design Beats Fast Trends
- Safouane Ben Haj Ali
- Oct 2, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 6, 2025
Fast breaks. Slow holds.
Everywhere we look, design moves fast. New colors, new styles, new objects that appear, peak, and disappear in a season. What follows is predictable: clutter, waste, and a cycle that never holds.
Slow design is different. It doesn’t rush. It doesn’t chase. It builds with weight, ages with dignity, and compounds value over time.
What Slow Design Really Means
Slow design is not just an aesthetic niche. It’s a structural logic. It means objects are made to last, not to be replaced. A fouta that softens after years of washing. A ceramic bowl that feels heavier in the hand because it was shaped to endure. A wooden spoon that gains character the more it is used.
Where fast trends focus on novelty, slow design focuses on continuity.
Tunisia’s Native Rhythm
For Tunisia, slow design isn’t a movement to be imported. It’s the way things have always been made. Pottery from Sejnane, woven foutas, hand-carved spoons, these aren’t lifestyle trends. They are proof of a rhythm where usefulness and durability come first.
Objects are built to serve, to hold, and to remain. That is slow design in its most natural form.
Why Fast Trends Fail
Fast trends feel exciting in the moment, but they collapse quickly. What looks current today feels disposable tomorrow. Objects built without weight can’t carry memory, and they leave nothing behind but waste.
Slow design is the antidote: it restores presence by giving us objects that stand still when the world accelerates.
Why It Matters Now
Choosing slow design is not about nostalgia. It’s about making sure what you bring into your home is not a burden tomorrow. It’s about creating a space that feels stable, alive, and free from churn.
Slow design is sustainable design. It reduces waste, saves resources, and restores meaning. Most importantly, it allows your objects to become part of your own rhythm, not part of someone else’s trend cycle.
My Chakchouka: Slow Design, Still Alive
At My Chakchouka, slow design is not theory. It is reality. Each piece is direct-trade, made by artisans who still work in this rhythm. There is no middle step. No dilution. No disposable churn.
Every fouta, every ceramic, every wooden spoon is proof that durability is not an idea, it’s a living system.
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