Design. A Sense of Place.
Every human has a right to self-determined place and the sense of it. This is what I know for sure. Design is fundamentally about creating place -- the physical definition of it and our emotional tether to it. Existing in place. Design addresses that human condition. What we wear, how we live, the tools we use to make our way through this world -- they are design responses to our place. We exist in concert and our place in relationship to one another is design response. Whose stories are celebrated, who is pushed to the margins? Those systemic realities are design driven. Design is traditionally considered an end product -- often an aspirational acquired object to drive our consumer culture. I am much more interested in how end results can be distilled down to a design dna in our sense of place. Are we in control of it? I have questions. I hope you will, too. So, that's my perspective. I consider our world through our current events. By shining a light on the many ways that design