Why Design?
Designing is an act of play, of experimentation and of taking something the way it is and making it into something new.
Designers work with the way that things affect our relationships with each other (for example the way in which a building opens up the possibility for certain kinds of choreography as seen in the grand Savannah stair in a Bollywood movie or contemporary open plan kitchen).
Designers work also with the ways in which things affect our relationship with our world (for example green buildings and new materials).
Design excellence is achieved when the outcome results in wonder, that moment when the object inspires us to pause and reflect, to take notice and when this reflection allows us to see new opportunity in critical contemporary issues such as rapid urbanization, climate change, international relations and even in each other.
Professor Richard Blythe
Head of School, Architecture + Design, RMIT
Founding Director, Terroir Pty Ltd
Related Links
RMIT — www.rmit.edu.au
Terrior Pty Ltd — www.terroir.com.au
2 April 2008