Intersections will hopefully provide a chance to step back from day-to-day concerns and pan-out to the long view.
The ground has shifted under designers’ feet over the past decade. Many new influences have come into play, from globalisation and sustainability, to popularity of design amongst non-designers in business and government. The influence of design has expanded into new terrain, and the boundaries between different design disciplines have blurred as the work of designers from previously separate backgrounds overlap.
As we live through these disorientating times, we can either get blown around by forces we don’t understand, or we can grapple with them to comprehend the new terrain. The best way I know of doing this is to air and debate different perspectives with some of the best minds in the business (on and off the platform). So here’s to a robust and lively debate!
In this spirit, here are a few of my favourite quotes:
‘He who knows only his side of the case knows little of that.’
John Stuart Mill
‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’
Voltaire
‘Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.’
Voltaire
‘The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.’
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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