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Realizing Designs

As designers i belive we need to detail out design to the most detailed level that it can be. Understanding domans of both the imaginery and the real can allow the existence of a design in the real world. I asked myself a simple question today " Why do we design?" To make a change possible. To make what we think is possible...real. To see it work. To define the rules. If that is the case, then why do we limit ourselves to just ideating a patricular design solution and simply leaving it at prototype stage. Why dont we take the extra efforts to actually make it realize? In the information domain there is a general tendency of keeping our hands off when the question "how will it be possible?" comes in to picture. I belive designing needs to bridge the gap of just visualizing to visualizing in detail. We as designers have the imagination of connecting cross domains across fields to bring about the possiblity of NEW. But this possiblitiy of new is possible only if we pus

What is and What can be

Realization by knowledge v/s realization by experience are two aspects of human approach. All knowledge that exists in real world is generally generated by the humans and defined by humans by observing what exists in nature and beyond. But the domain of abstract i.e. that which is beyond what exists is always interesting. So the mild diversion between what exists and what can exist depends on what we think and how we think about it. So is all knowledge that exists wrong? I believe and have experienced it myself that simultaneous thinking does exist. When we say that a particular entity can generate a thought the same thought can exist or may have been thought over. So why then is creativity considered beyond what exists always. Cant innovation by looking at a new perspective of the existing change the way the world sees itself? Knowledge that exists and knowledge that goes beyond existence should be equally balanced. An individual that says existing knowledge is of no concern to reali

Technology emulates nature

Technology tries to emulate what nature does seamlessly........science finds patterns of nature using observations by asking the question how? and why? each of these answers if found science names them with particular names...it proves the observation using...mathematics which can be consdered as a fixed language which allows science to state what it observes and create a bigger pattern....science gives each pattern a name. Technology uses these proved observations to emulate nature....this emulation of the nature may or may not be in favor of the human beings.....but either ways it brings about a change in the society or nature of things.....so its like evolving from recreating.... Creationism comes into picture here that apart from pure observation and stating the way in which we apply makes a difference....We say we create when we do something new innovative and by large something that has never been done before....such an attempt along with the observation of science breaks boundr