Design Fundamentals: There may be typos.

Make a practice of sharing with people and presume no limits of its potenial. Study your behavior and the behavior of others. Learn how to listen, hear, speak, say and really mean it. Get over being right. Preserve and like you, but enough already with the fear of loosing you or your stuff—start sharing. Know empathy and practice it. Accept the organic nature of life and know that communication / sight / design / life is a work-in-progress.

2-, 3-, and 4-dimensional understandings are already inside you—know it and believe it. Elbow meets pavement. Where has the time gone? You made me laugh, smile, feel, see—thank you! Formal understanding of point, line, plane, etcetera are good for you, but know they are abstractions—know where they reside.

If another wishes to share their knowledge of these dimensions, listen and learn, but remember you already know a lot about it. Share what you know of time and space with others—offer your experiences. Again, share with folks and seek greater understanding through dialog. If they will not or cannot listen, they are not currently a student and are missing breath at the moment—this is sad but true. They have denied design no matter what they call themselves. They need you, but you may not be able to share with them now, yet—in some way you are always them. Remember them, but find a community you can share with. Hey, hi, I want to hear all about it.

Simple and less presume binary thought and action—reduction presumes efficiency, modes of learning, and what should be. Redefine simplicity. Binary thinking and action results in fundamentalism and the end of the individual and greater community—it denies that we are natural systems living in greater natural systems. The individual and the collective are your study. Preserve both. Keep them organic and deny binary thought—go one better and deny binary feel! How do you feel today?

We are all spiritual no matter how we wish to spin the meaning of it, location of it, myth of it, truth of it—its matter, semi-matter, anti-matter. Ignoring the spiritual means ignoring the creative—it means ignoring what fuels design, allows design, is design. Know form and know matter. Make a study of the spiritual. Define it for yourself, but know what it means for others as they define it for themselves.

Fundamentalism destroys. If your design fundamentals are a list and not a natural system of growth, building, greater understanding, and sharing among all people, then you got nothing but hurt.

This is a work in progress.
I know I can do better.

What do you see? share@designfundamentals.org

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“The Historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human—at the species level, with critical refleciton, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.”

– Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future




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4 recommended readings

A Child’s Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play by Vivian Gussin Paley
Being Caribou by Karsten Heuer
The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future by Thomas Berry
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin



2 reasons to go to university

Hang out with people you do not know and name things you already do.