In the emerging scenario of an intimately connected world, where there are infinite shades of needs and desires asking for expression and fulfillment, should we rethink the question of design of 'solutions'?
Solutions have to do with actualisation in response to needs, a willful ordering of elements to evolve ends that serve a predetermined purpose, even if the purpose is one that evolves through a creative and critical process of thinking, a design process.
Consider a scenario where this purpose is open-ended, as is likely when the variety of needs tends to maximum and many 'shades of solutions' become more relevant than one solution, however well designed that may be.
Consider 'possibilities' not 'solutions'.
Elements coming together in unpredictable ways in response to complex forces fueled by many and diverse voices expressing needs and desires.
Much like evolving life forms being the result of the combinations of the basic building blocks responding to a variety of influences with the sole purpose of making more of itself and its variations in a bid to survive, a complex interplay where everything is in a state of flux, a microcosm of which life is only a part.
What is the secret of this 'design'?
Can this become a model for our own built worlds? A world of possibilities, not solutions.
Diverse, decentralised, open-ended, organic.
Design, not in terms of ordering of elements in the search for solutions to defined perceived problems, but as an open ended journey with the possibility of a range of 'ending' results that evolve continuously, responsive to an environment that makes ever newer demands.
Adaptable to individual and diverse situations and with the ability to interact and evolve with different people with vastly differing world-views.
Solutions have to do with actualisation in response to needs, a willful ordering of elements to evolve ends that serve a predetermined purpose, even if the purpose is one that evolves through a creative and critical process of thinking, a design process.
Consider a scenario where this purpose is open-ended, as is likely when the variety of needs tends to maximum and many 'shades of solutions' become more relevant than one solution, however well designed that may be.
Consider 'possibilities' not 'solutions'.
Elements coming together in unpredictable ways in response to complex forces fueled by many and diverse voices expressing needs and desires.
Much like evolving life forms being the result of the combinations of the basic building blocks responding to a variety of influences with the sole purpose of making more of itself and its variations in a bid to survive, a complex interplay where everything is in a state of flux, a microcosm of which life is only a part.
What is the secret of this 'design'?
Can this become a model for our own built worlds? A world of possibilities, not solutions.
Diverse, decentralised, open-ended, organic.
Design, not in terms of ordering of elements in the search for solutions to defined perceived problems, but as an open ended journey with the possibility of a range of 'ending' results that evolve continuously, responsive to an environment that makes ever newer demands.
Adaptable to individual and diverse situations and with the ability to interact and evolve with different people with vastly differing world-views.
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