Fluid Design

By Aidan Ishii, Sherry Ma, Sissi Wu and Miranda Xu

What is design? Who defines, creates, and creates design?

As one of the groups to set up the “Design in Questions” installation, we were assigned to read “Designing Design,” “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” and “What does it mean to decolonize design?” and attempted to question our concerns towards design procedure. Each of us came up with 25 questions and a mind map towards the readings.

Our team then comes together to explore a common topic from our research and design. We noticed that most of our design touched the question of “what is design” and “who defines design”. Considering our diverse ideas and thoughts, we decided to build a coordinate system with four pairs of terms to describe the design. With the coordinate system, we aim our installation to exhibit our different design interpretations and emphasize the importance of diversity in design.