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“BEGIN”
The theoretical explorations and experimentations in thought and ideas comes to a fitting conclusion in this MA Grad Show. New "beginnings" are in order as well as an entire set of attitudes required to successfully take on the task of creating a better understanding of design and its shifting definition. My stint in the non-profit sector has provided a fertile ground for benchmarking theories learnt in this MA, up to a certain extent these theories enabled me to reconfigure my system of thinking, doing and designing. My final project for this course, ironically, is my first formal venture using this reconfigured thought system to enable the creation of practical design solutions to address non-traditional design briefs. I thought it apt to focus on the first step towards designing sustainably which is by creating genuine participatory approaches.
While design "scholars" (and even entire schools) still debate on the most appropriate definition of "sustainable design" a lot of design practitioners (trained or not/consciously or unconsciously) are already out in the field making silent but inversely, the most resonating contributions to a discipline/movement that has been steadily gaining ground.
Each designer must begin with something somewhere, sometime at some point. Let's begin, we just have to.
While design "scholars" (and even entire schools) still debate on the most appropriate definition of "sustainable design" a lot of design practitioners (trained or not/consciously or unconsciously) are already out in the field making silent but inversely, the most resonating contributions to a discipline/movement that has been steadily gaining ground.
Each designer must begin with something somewhere, sometime at some point. Let's begin, we just have to.