Design is a very broad subject to talk on, and question on.
I just got graduated and I am home after 9 months long semester. i have done
some research on how to make this world a better place to live. So to design
that I had seen some models and some sustainable ideas and by this article I am
I am trying to summarises my research and my understanding on the subject .
My name is Amitanshu, graduated from Indian Institute of Crafts and
design, Jaipur, India.
As a designer I think making object is a very responsible
work. Apart from its function, Apart from aesthetics, elements of design, and
purpose of design there are many more thing to be understood and applied.
Nature is the biggest teacher for one who is creating. I believe designers are the people who plan
man- made objects so in this way everything is designed and everything around
is planned. So for me Designers are the person who is planning connecting and producing
things for the humans. so from starting of time this designer person is responsible
for solving peoples problem.
Humans have always been so curious. As I observed nature
around us I see only one animal that’s human. From thousands of years humans
have been thriving on this planet but recently from few hundred years we are dominating
this planet. As around in my country itself I see 1.25 billion people so this population
and the power of reproduction have led us to this overcrowded planet.
As the number increases in population, the job of the designers
also shifted from problem solver to solve the need of the people. As we served
the needs of the people they started giving their desires and then they give us
their stupid luxury to fulfil. But I am asking; is serving humans a necessity?
When nature was evolving, the few millions years ago we had
different organisms on this planet. As time went that organism became complex
and more compact to survive in nature. Then after few thousand years after the
earth was formed animal came with consciousness of death and life. The result
of that evolution of consciousness gave us species of animal who wants to understand
everything make everything and willing to destroy everything which comes in
their path. You might have got which animal I am talking about. Its fine till
that animal is trying to understand things but the problem comes when he tries
to challenge everything. I am calling humans animals because we have to understand
that we are nothing more than just another animals on this planet But been one
of animal evolution have given me a different kind of powers, power of thing and so I decided to use it for
the benefit of this planet. Our design process has been more human centric.
Design has lots of constrains like of solving problem,
making things beautiful , sustainable , space saving etc. but here I would like
to emphasis on few more constrains which will help us in giving us
self-sustainable system which will eventually give us a better place to
live.
If you ask this question with respect to everything around
one self, there are many things now you will see that we don’t need them by our
basic need but by our desires.
We can ask may questions but the answer lies in an another
question in which we get stuck . This made me write this article.
My question is for the animal around us; the world is designed
for us or we are designed for the world around us.
There are 2 Anthropic
Principal
I> Week Anthropic Principal
- The observed values of all physical and
cosmological quantities are not equally probable but take on values restricted
by the requirement that there exist sites where carbon-based life can evolve
and by the requirement that the Universe be old enough for it to have already
done so.
II> Strong
Anthropic Principal - The Universe (and hence
the fundamental parameters on which it depends) must be such as to admit the
creation of observers within it at some stage.
The problem with science is 90 % of the time is never been
proven right. The rest of the 10% is based on a million assumption .
But these Anthropic principals made me go beyond the problem
of making using and disposing as we are in this universes I think it’s our responsibility
to see and understand the things around us. So basically the week Anthropic
principal starts that the universe has a specific time of starting and its end.
Another strong principal states that the universe is in a state and never ending.
It’s just observed in different stages. Again
it’s a question that how do we imply the principal. As they lead us to a next
question of our existence. That how do we live here and why do we exist here. I
know people have tried to find answers in past but I would like to begun a
journey of my own, as I say design is and products are the way I would like to
go for it. By understanding the reason of already existing design and finding
the reason to my design will tell me the reason of my existence.
There is no harm in having a desire but these desire are becoming
hurdle in the path of our wisdom.
The word design
Design – An Artistic science of producing products or a plan to solve the
problems around us.
Scientific way of
thinking creatively .
Or
Job for thinkers
It is more than just making things, anyone can make things a
good design or a product is one which bland in one’s life without getting noticed, like we really
don’t know the how designed the astronaut’s suite ? who developed the basic
form old our utensils and kitchen object , they are still a invincible part of our life.
I am not saying this is my definition but it is one of my constraints
in my design projects sometime.
When I say scientific way of thinking creatively it is to
tell that the design should be derived from the logical reasoning of
environment around us. As it said our focus is bee too human centric we can add
a new aspect in it aspect of our surrounding and our fellow creature and animal
how shears this planet. This constraint will help us to make our planet more
habitable if we keep in mind these aspects I believe we don’t need any other
kind of sustainable process.
We have gone so far that we as humans have designed
everything from our needs to our luxury from expression to the weapon of mass
distraction. we have conquered all land, water , sky, we have learned to
control and harness the nature resources . But now it’s time understand and
help the nature and as we have learned to design practically everything we can
use that power to create a new world rather than showing off and wasting the
resources.
We have enough resources for everyone’s need but not for everyone’s
greed – Mahatma Gandhi.
Design = creation
To fathom the need of this idea of a system where we look at
the design as not just human centric I would like to compare it with the
process of creation. In nature we have seen different designs and different patterns
of surroundings. All systems in environment are kind and self sustained
everything. It has a balance in itself,
we can say everything is in harmony with
one another to create one another, help to survive one another and eventually
dies and goes back to create a new life.
As we observe this life cycle we will see that in a system
nothing is plastic whatever stared at a certain point will die or get
disintegrated .This cycle is to be followed by a design. We have been too much
functional centric, we demand things from the material but it should be other
way round, what that material can give us. Then we will be able to act responsible,
because there is only one planet, I am just trying to share it with fellow
animals.
It is important not just to make objects but also, we have
to be a part of new revolution. In India from Vedic period we don’t have any
traces of a specific person or a post for a designer because Indian society
teaches to solve our own problems on small levels , so there is been no need of
a person to dedicatedly think about others need and desires. Taking inspiration
from it I would like to give emphasis on the point of making small – small
systems to solve people’s problems in this way we can behind both employment
and a health system for the small group of people.
Scientifically speaking with a support of a experiment done
on monkey about their social behaviour is that they can only remember 20 member
in a group at one time, so we have seen most often that monkey lives in small
groups of not more then 20 at a time. Similarly humans also have a threshold of
social contact which is also a problem with new generation of people living in
the world of Facebook. So this is not that we can control but it’s something
that people should know about. The kind of system I am talking about is nothing
to do with the no. of people, but it will be more efficient if the number of
people is less in the system because we have to think more about the other
animal then just humans.
Singularity
This word is often used by many thinkers of all different
streams and in all different ages the most interesting thing is its used in a common
phenomena in both science and philosophy, and both use this word to explain the
same effect in their respective fields .
I was introduced to it by the one of the greatest scientist
and thinker of our times, Sir. Stephen Hawking in one of his early books
“brief history of time” this was in reference to his work with Dr.Roger Penrose
on gravitational singularity or space-time singularity, know as Penrose–Hawking singularity
theorems.
Then
it was also been used by Indian philosopher and a spiritual teacher Sri
Ramkrishna Paramhans.
Both
of them used to understand and tell people one of the very important and an
intresting phenomenon of the creation is.
For me singularity is the
way of understating the past rectifying our present and illuminating the future.
Beauty
of the design made by god is we don’t know what happened us back in time and we
don’t know what happens when we grow old when but the beauty is we just have
the present. And for me that present is the singularity and my dear friend you
are passing through it, just hold tight and enjoy the ride…
Plastic
Plastic, I am not going to talk about the actual material
plastic we all know about it. I am about to talk about the property of (adjective) “plastic”. Its artificial,
unnatural and able to be bent, stretched, squeezed, pulled out so that the
resulting change of shape is permanent.
As like everything around us we intent to make very thing so plastic. It’s
like one of our constrain is to make the product plastic.
What happens it something never dies what if we were
immortals we would be able to see everything change around us with time but we
are the same for our entire life this is how it feels being a plastic .
If someone tells me to write an autobiography of a plastic
object trust me it would be the saddest thing that you would be reading.
Because it will be there a long after their masters gone. So stop using plastic
not for the environment but for the sake of plastic, they will be alone without
any human to use them.
So it’s one of the constrain of that hypothetical system
that I have been talking about should be that it should not be plastic in
nature it should have an end, an end that is visible in a human life time.
Share.
If I say one should share then he or she thinks that is it
enough for me. We have become so selfish and ignorant and stupid that we have
forgotten that we have only one planet to live in. in country like India we
have so many problems like cast, religion, regionalist and other boarder
related issue, my fellow reader we humans are so small, plastic, we cannot even
share things like land, water and other resources with our spices of human how
can we shear it with another animals on this plants. Don’t forget they own this
plant as much as we do. Just because we are have more developed consciousness
that does not give us any right to destroy the less evolved ones.
Self
sustainable system
I have told you all the true attributes of a self
sustainable system and there is nothing much left for me then to start to make
a first draft of such a system. I have started to design such a system. me
writing this article was to develop a better and a clear understanding of my 3
months long research have not written everything from my research but I am able
to narrow a lot of things down to form such a ideology for the design project.
What if there is list of the
animals, creature and tree of this planet and we all are on it ,then we must not forget the person holding that
list, and I am sure that if we don’t change he will cut us off the list pretty soon.
