Shift

Shift

By: Van Dwinnells

As a concerned people, we have within our discipline the ability to remedy serious design flaws in the way information is communicated to its inhabitants, whether this be through the manipulations of signage or strategic viewpoints, lighting and/or scale within the physical form, or even through metaphysical implications of the said spaces.  One's perception can be altered to emphasize new and specific directives, guiding their interests through interactive yet simple narratives all the while being submerged within a larger body or complex system.  We can structure spaces in a way that increases a positive flow of information thus becoming a catalyst for change from a more personal level to even larger socioeconomic ones.

By studying forms and systems that are intuitive to humans, we can enable the users to develop their own personal ideologies allowing them to form their own conclusions of how things work by simply experiencing them, seeing them.  We can create spaces that are reactive, as if our being there forces us to reflect upon them and them to reflect onto us.  This act of imprinting can be discerned, and more appropriately, controlled.  These phenomena are directly relatable to the issues of intentionality, consciousness, and social perspective.

The end synthesis is to develop a total design where we are not only experiencing place but rather become an extension of it.  Where ideologies can transcend from the natural and built environment directly to in the form of personal awareness and social construct.