Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The purpose of the design of open space exceeds the fulfillment of aesthetics and proportion.
In designing an open space, designers make critical decisions on behalf of many others; kids and adults, man and women, socialists and elitists, affluent and poor, socialists and socialists and supremacists, intellects and rulers...people of all colors,
In designing an open space, designers are promoting a cultural notion; by providing a physical sharing medium for people to exchange their daily experience of life moments.

An open space can then be seen as one way of shaping societies behavior, and designers are, then, as promoters of a specific cultural belief.

The question is then does not stop at "how" is an open space will "look" like, but rather "what" would an open space "promote" in a society?
In order to answer that question, our obsessions, as designers, with object physicality and modeling ability should not be our first priority.
Our first priority then becomes PEOPLE not the space!

We deal with a polemic, intertwined, network of relationships...
On one level it is the internal network of relations between people of one location..their own space, resources, and the way they practice their freedom...
On another level, we draw an image on behalf of that society, in designing its "public" space...or "public image" that will be perceived by other societies...