Make your mind up time ...

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Emil Ruder
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So is this a good or a bad thing?

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[Chris Corrigan]

AND...we design containers in which to accept the flow and messiness and unpredictability and work with it and use it. Or we could design surfboards which help us stay under control in changing conditions. Or we could design gear that helps keep us safe as we travel at the edge of chaos and accident in order to discover what lives there.

Tis neither a good or a bad thing.

[Nic]

Interesting question :-)

I liked this quote because it really got me thinking.

On the whole for me, design which does not cater for serendipity is bad news.

Unless of course you’re an airline pilot trying to land a 747!

[Euan]

Oh I don't know - having a plane designed for the unexpected might be a VERY good idea!

:-)

[Jon]

I believe that the very reason activities like skiing for example are so popular is that it lets people experience in a constant flow the process of balancing on the edge between falling down steep hillsides on the very edge of being completely out of control but striving to make artful beauty out of the process ... dancing along the edge between chaos and control, slip-sliding away .. and then into the lodge for a beer ... aaahhhh !