Exploring Interstitial Spaces
Embracing the serendipitous as design process
Exploring Interstitial Spaces
Embracing the serendipitous as design process
Exploring Interstitial Spaces - Embracing the serendipitous as design process charts the experiments between the transactionally-led design processes of creatively making and producing. The project questions the intent of design as practice and designers as agents, how they work, who they work for, what their work reinforces, and how design is made. The ‘ridiculous’ has always factored crucially within my understanding of design—to my mind, designers who have embraced ‘the ridiculous’ have always produced those things that we as a civilization never knew we needed in the first place. Embracing the ridiculous has permeated through my choice of reading and research, infused the core principles within my teaching, and is now factoring into how I write about design. The interstitial—something I was unaware of as a young designer—is now surfacing as a concomitant, nagging thought behind all of those most pressing crises needed being solved for our employers. But I return to it as often as I am able… These personal obsessions are so much stronger than those of managers and senior level staff.
The final article can be read on Medium.