Everyday life can be the starting point for introspection into the material and artificial environment. Design, insofar as it relates to the conception of objects and domestic environments, seems to be a creative activity ideally suited to questioning the nature of everyday experiences and helping to qualify them. If radical changes in projective and productive practices are needed to address environmental and climate issues, the obstacles to significant change are still numerous. What if everyday life itself, insofar as it involves habits and repeated uses, could be one of the causes of inertia? At the same time, isn’t it this place where change and happen? In this article, we will examine how creative approaches in the field of design have already initiated changes that pave the way for less destructive approaches. We’ll see how the banal, the ordinary object, can be a source of creativity and the basis of critical design approaches that can change mentalities and propose bold perspectives, provided we manage to shift our gaze and change our habits, especially those that prove harmful.