Design

Tempers

The Not Yet

Shapes & hones

Tries, tempts, tests

Idea and matter fused

Process & product unified

Developed in interdependency

Past features as inescapable guide

Fundamentally implicated in outcome

Vision tempered by past-present actualities

The potential, probable, preferable considered

Against the seemingly impossible, the unobtainable

Mind moving freely between pasts, presents and futures

All imagined, all conjured and played with, all contemplated

Temporality and futurity key to decisions in radical uncertainty

Granting reality status to processes and the as yet unrealised

Increasing complexity with decreasing control over effects

Inescapable interdependency requires an ethical stance

Engaging not yet materialized processes in progress

Creating both present futures & future presents

Responsibility in contexts of non-knowledge

Accompanies designs to potential impact

Bears in mind interests of successors

Keeps open their potential choices

Interactions as change-processes

Shift emphases from function

To process and becoming

Drawing the immaterial

Towards potential life

Tempered matter

Is actualized

© Barbara Adam

April 2017