Design is enchantment
Our assumptions of the future are being challenged: even what we took for granted now seems uncertain. And instead of asking: how did we get here? We are left with the question: what made us think we would never get here? If the unimaginable suddenly becomes a reality, then what is left to imagine? Is it still worth being hopeful? It appears that w
... See moreJitske Gulmans • Imagining the Impossible: An Act of Radical Hope
we were just trying to spark something that might unlock a creative spirit, a renewed sense of possibility, a fresh and hopeful way to think about the future, without any thought that it could spread to other places. But spread it did.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
We were invited to design an object that fully captured all the energy of our imagination—something between a tool and a piece of architecture that roundly rejected the standard dimensions on which the built world is generally arrayed, and proposed instead a way for Amanda’s body and the room to meet each other differently.