How chance affects the design process through technology as a system for error
Designers can only innovate through chance. The chance occurrence, the intersection of two totally independent events, results in an unintended ‘error’. Designers will acknowledge the significance the error has on their work, usually to its detriment. Rarely will designers consider the error a type of exploration or positive addition to the design process. “By its very definition, the accident cannot be contrived, but some of its behaviors and their consequences can be incorporated into the creative process.” (Amanda Bowers, Design Disasters, 99) One which involves failing, force-quitting and starting over.
What if designers were to make considerations for chance as an integral part of the design process? What if designers set-up systems for error, to allow for mistakes? What if the commanding of errors spoke to the designer’s ability to compose disparate sources of information? The composition being a collection of faults, the sum of those missteps that will ultimately define the solution.
Digital artifact
32 modules and five quote generators document various stages of experimentation within a design process. The modules are presented in a non-linear interactive site that suggests the viewer experience the ambiguity and disconnectedness of the design process, while drawing their own connections within the content.
MFA Thesis Exhibition
The digital artifact was presented in the MFA gallery exhibition alongside the other Fine Art and Design candidates.
